Believe us! The auto-sync will make life a lot easier for you. The word sync in auto-sync stands for synchronization which essentially means that whatever you have on your smartphone (data, apps, photos, contacts, and others) can be synced with your Google drive, Google accounts, and even Windows 10.
We live in a day and age where we are using multiple devices. Those multiple devices have numerous vital data that must be accessible from any device of your choice. This can be easily achieved with auto-syncing.
In this guide, first, we are going to tell you what auto-sync is and how you can auto-sync your smartphone (both android and iOS phones) with your Google account.
Let’s jump right into the topic now…
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What is the auto-sync feature in smartphones?
To understand how the auto-sync data can come in handy let us take two scenarios:
1st scenario: You have bought a new smartphone and now you need to transfer all the data contained in your old phone to this new one. Are you contemplating to do it manually one by one?
No, you don’t have to do this anymore.
Manually feeding data onto your new phone will take you forever. This is one ofthe scenarios where auto sync will be a lot of help for you.
2nd Scenario: Suppose you have lost your phone somewhere and now you need an important file that was present there. Now that your phone is lost, is your important file lost forever?
No, it is not, if you had turned on your auto-sync in your phone. You can easily find your file in your Google drive.
What auto-sync does is, it stores and constantly updates any changes to your accounts in real-time. This means you can get access to all the information on your smartphone from your other devices.
Now, by using the auto-sync feature in your smartphone you can easily store your data to your Google accounts and other cloud services. Here we will discuss enabling the auto-syncing feature for your Google accounts.
How to auto-sync your android phone?
After enabling auto-sync you will be syncing apps, calendar, contacts, gallery, web browser data, and others. If you have been prompted by your welcome set up in your phone chances are that you have already enabled the auto-sync data.
There is this one drawback that you may face after enabling auto-sync in your phones. That is your phone may not be able to get into deep sleep mode.
This means, syncing heavy files like photos may drain your phone battery. However, this small issue can be easily solved with downloading an app that turns on auto-sync or disables it as required. AutomateIt and Tasker are some of these apps.
Steps for auto syncing android mobile with Google accounts:
- Go to ‘Settings’ on your mobile.
- Switch on the WiFi or data connection
- Then select the ‘Backup and reset’ option
- Go to ‘Back up my data.’
- Choose a backup account option, if nothing is selected
- Look at your ‘automatic restore option.’
- Select ‘+add account.’
- Then select ‘Google.’
- After that, you can either choose your existing Google account or you can create a new account.
Now if you have an existing Google account follow the below instructions:
- Select one Google account where you wish to sync
- Choose all the mentioned syncing options
- After waiting for some time the syncing process will begin.
If you don’t have a Google account, follow the below instructions for a new Google account:
- First, you have to provide your personal information like name and email address. After that, select a strong password and provide a recovery email option and information.
- After you complete signing up on Google you may be requested to enter the given reCAPTCHA code for verification.
- When you are done with the verification you will be shown all the available sync options. Here, select all of them.
- Tap the ‘Finish’ button.
- Now, your auto-sync is enabled.
How to auto sync iOS phones?
iPhone users have two available methods of saving and syncing their data:
- Users can sync their phone with iCloud
- Users can also sync their phone with Google
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How to enable auto-sync on an iOS phone?
It is quite easy to turn on the automatic sync option when you are an iOS phone user. Just follow the below-given instructions to enable your auto-sync.
Step 1 – Go to the preferences and other options menu on your phone
Steps 2 – From the opened menu select the ‘Auto-sync’ option. This will take you to auto-sync preferences on the mobile.
Step 3 – You will be shown an option that says ‘turn auto-sync on.’ Tap on that button to switch on the auto-sync.
Step 4 – The auto-sync on your iOS phone is now enabled. If you wish to turn the auto-sync off then just tap on the button ‘turn auto-sync off.’
How to sync the contact list on your iPhone with Google?
To enable sync, go to settings. From there choose the option ‘Accounts and Passwords.’
After that select the ‘add account’ option and in the next step a different list will appear, on this list, tap on ‘Google.’
Now, your mobile will prompt you to log in to your Google account or create a new account. When you are done logging in or have created a new Google account you will be shown a ‘contacts’ option. Just toggle this option to switch on the auto-syncing of your iPhone contact with your Google account.
Select ‘Save’ to implement the changes and that’s it, you are all done!
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Final Thoughts
The auto-sync feature available on smartphones today is a boon to the general population. This has made handling and accessing our data a lot simpler. Now, we can easily retrieve and use our data from anywhere on any device.
We have mentioned the methods of enabling the auto-sync feature on both android and iOS smartphones here. It takes a few minutes and a few steps. Once it is activated, you no longer have to worry about transferring your data from one device to another.
