{"id":51492,"date":"2021-01-24T03:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=51492"},"modified":"2021-01-23T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T03:26:34","slug":"gmail-ios-iphone-mobile-app-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-ios-iphone-mobile-app-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/gmail_ios_app.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/gmail_ios_app.gif\" title=\"Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just saying &#8220;Gmail&#8221; will have a lot of online users thinking &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>email<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Google' href='https:\/\/google.com'>Google<\/a> (the owners of <a target=_blank title='Google' href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>message and\/or attachment<\/li>\n<li>software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; as an industry leader email client software suite.  Even though it is not an <a target=_blank title='Apple' href='https:\/\/apple.com'>Apple<\/a> product the support is great in iOS-land and macOS-land to support a Gmail email account.  On iOS and macOS, think access methodologies &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>webmail, by use in a web browser and typing in URL like <a target=_blank title='Google' href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>https:\/\/gmail.com<\/a> &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>set up the Mail app to point at a Gmail account &#8230; and also, for iOS, an access methodology we have avoided up until today &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>iOS Gmail mobile app via the (Apple) App Store<\/li>\n<li><font size=1>but could also, on iOS, install another web browser, as alternative to Safari, and set up the <a target=_blank title='Google' href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>https:\/\/gmail.com<\/a> webmail URL there to point at the different Gmail account<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; our &#8220;holding off&#8221; being that the top two serve all purposes I could think of for a single email account mode of use, on that iOS device.<\/p>\n<p>But, continuing on with our &#8220;Gmail bromance&#8221; last talked about with <a title='Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial' href='#gwn-n-ast'>Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/a> supposing you end up with the situation of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one iOS device<\/li>\n<li>two Gmail accounts<\/li>\n<li>practical sharing of that device to access the two different Gmail accounts <font size=1>(trying to make that procedure <a target=_blank title='?' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JFyuOEovTOE'>&#8220;unforgettable&#8221;<\/a>)<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and we figure one user can use webmail and\/or the Mail desktop application as Gmail email client application choices and the other can use that iOS Gmail mobile app <font size=1>(and\/or that alternative web browser approach talked about above, but a bit kludgy feeling for us, we think)<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>And so today we show the very simple steps to install that iOS Gmail mobile app <a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/gmail_ios_app.gif\" title=\"Click picture\">on an iPhone<\/a> for your perusal.<\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=_blank  href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-ios-iphone-mobile-app-primer-tutorial\/'>Gmail iOS iPhone Mobile App Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='gwn-n-ast'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gmail-webmail-non-mobile-non-app-advanced-search-tutorial\/'>Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.jpeg\" title=\"Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Around here we&#8217;ve had a week of &#8220;digging up bits of non-immediate communication&#8221; relating to organizational and end of year and car maintenance issues and we related to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5hWWe-ts2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; Meatloaf&#8217;s &#8220;Two Out of Three Aint Bad&#8221; a lot, because where incarnations of <a target=_blank title=Gmail href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Gmail<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPad via its Mail app &#8230; versus &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>macOS via Gmail <a target=_blank title=Gmail href='https:\/\/gmail.com'>Webmail<\/a> (ie. not an app, but via a URL via a web browser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; means of searching for email things were pitted against each other, and a lot of you will concur with our verdict &#8230; macOS via Gmail Webmail is sooooooo much better at this.  Maybe that is (to do with) the devices, perhaps, but there has also got to be an element of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you can lose functionality as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion<\/li>\n<li>you can lose <font size=1>(the feel of)<\/font> &#8220;the room to move and think, and so are willing to wait for processes to finish&#8221; as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; <a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gmail_spam_search.gif\" title=\"Click picture\">at least for me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And though <font color=blue>it<\/font> may be there with &#8220;iPad via its Mail app&#8221; we relied on &#8220;macOS via Gmail Webmail&#8221; (incarnation&#8217;s) Advanced search option &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<font color=blue>Mail &amp; Spam &amp; Trash<\/font><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; to get us out of trouble successfully on &#8220;Two Out of Three<font size=1> Aint Bad<\/font>&#8221; occasions with our &#8220;digging up&#8221; work.  Even the third one, though not finding what we wanted, was not &#8220;inept&#8221;, but could not find it because it wasn&#8217;t there, and at least gave us piece of mind we&#8217;d looked everywhere for it.<\/p>\n<p>There is another point here.  The online wooooorrrllldd seems to be shaping towards putting pressure on &#8220;email&#8221; as becoming (like &#8220;cassettes&#8221; and &#8220;DVDs&#8221; and the like &#8230;) heading towards obsolescence.  And though yours truly will fight tooth and nail against this because &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we have a degree of disrespect for a &#8220;business practice&#8221; wooooooooooorrrrrrllllddd based on 24&#215;7 &#8230; pitting &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>what we see as 90+% of the time the undue pressure of SMS and Notifications versus Email as being a halfway house of a modicum of &#8220;get back to you&#8221; leeway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; it could be that <a target=_blank href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Email_spam' title='Spam information from Wikipedia, thanks'>Spam<\/a> is part of (the reason for) that &#8220;obsolescence&#8221; push.  As a programmer I know it can be tricky to set up email arrangements that don&#8217;t end up as Spam (in Gmail&#8217;s mind) and perhaps there is some point here (for Gmail&#8217;s Spam algorithms), but I&#8217;d rather an &#8220;education program&#8221; for &#8220;Email Savvy&#8221; here, rather than ditching this great <font size=1>(&#8220;greatest&#8221;, for us)<\/font> communication tool called &#8220;email&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d50273' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d50273\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/email\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d50273' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d51492' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d51492\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/gmail\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d51492' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saying &#8220;Gmail&#8221; will have a lot of online users thinking &#8230; email Google (the owners of Gmail) message and\/or attachment software &#8230; as an industry leader email client software suite. 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