Using Sync in a Blink with Google Contact Groups
Monday, December 29th, 2008The latest version of the Sync in a Blink iPhone app supports Google Contact Groups. This is a wonderful feature addition, as Google adds all correspondents to its “Suggested Contacts” group which then sync down to the iPhone which probably isn’t desirable. I don’t really want all the mailing lists and support email addresses I correspond with to show up as contacts on my iPhone. By creating an “iPhone Contacts” group, I can avoid that problem.
Unfortunately, the way contact groups are supported on the iPhone and their interaction with Sync in a Blink is not entirely intuitive. After configuring Sync in a Blink to only sync the “iPhone Contacts” group, I found that newly created contacts on the iPhone were not syncing back to Google. I initially thought this may be a limitation of the iPhone, but it’s not. There is a way to make this work.
