February 7, 2019

Setup Gmail account on iPhone

The first step is to go into Settings on your iPhone.

Scroll down to Accounts & Passwords and select that.
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The next screens shows a list of email accounts that all already setup on your iPhone.  At the bottom is an option to Add Account – select that.

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Select which type of email account you wish to setup, in this case select Google.

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Enter the Gmail account you are connecting to.  In this example, we are connecting to a custom domain account that is hosted on Gmail.  Then select Next.

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Enter your password and select Next.

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The phone will connect to the account and then you may select which information synch.  In this case, we just want our email.  Select Save in the upper right after configuring this page.

You will then be taken back to the Accounts & Passwords screen.  By default, the email account will be listed as Gmail.  You can change this to something more descriptive if you wish.  Here is the process:

Select the Gmail account to go into the configuration.  At the top of the screen the account is listed.  Select that to enter into the account configuration.

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Modify the Description field to whatever makes more sense to you – select that field to edit it.  The select Done at the top of the page to save your settings.

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You will be sent back to the previous screen.  Notice that the title of this screen has changed using the new description you entered (THA).  At this point you can exit Settings by clicking the Home button.

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