How to Add Gmail Account in iPhone Mail App?

Gmail is a widely used free email service provided by Google, and the iPhone is a primary product of Apple. Connecting Gmail to your iPhone can facilitate receiving and sending emails conveniently. Here is a step-by-step process for integrating your Gmail account into the default Mail app available on your iPhone.

Why Not Gmail App?

Google offers an official Gmail app which you can download free from the iOS App Store. It will help you to add multiple Gmail accounts in a single app and switch between accounts easily. The process is also much easier than adding accounts in Mail app. However, the problem is that when you have email accounts from different service provides. For example, you may have email accounts from Yahoo!, Gmail and on your own domain. In this case, using separate Gmail app for Google accounts and default Mail app for other emails is inconvenient.

Therefore, we recommend you to link all your email accounts in default Mail app to manage all emails in a single place and improve your productivity.

How to Add Gmail in iPhone Mail App?

Earlier, you can simply provide the email address and password to connect with Gmail account. However, this has been changed and now you need to directly link your Google account to iPhone. So, just keep your Gmail address / password handy and follow the below instructions. Also, make sure to update your iPhone to the latest iOS version. This article explains the setup with iOS 18 or later and the process was completely different on older iOS versions.

• Open “Settings” app and scroll to the bottom on the settings page and tap “Apps” option.

• Find and tap on the “Mail” app. You can use the alphabetical scroller on the right side to easily move to “M” and find the Mail app.

• Tap on “Mail Account” option (the number against it is the current number of email accounts added in the Mail app).

• You will see a list of email clients like iCloud, Outlook, Google, Yahoo, etc. and select “Google”.

• This will open your Google account and type your Gmail address or phone number in the box and click “Next” button.

• Enter your password on the next screen. If you have already added a passkey on your iPhone, simply sign in by unlocking it with your Face ID.

• Google will ask you to confirm whether you want to sign in to iOS with your Gmail and click “Continue” to proceed further.

• On the next screen, select the access for iOS to read, write and edit your emails / contacts / calendar entries. Scroll down and tap on “Continue” button.

• This will add your Gmail account in your iPhone and you will see the final page asking to provide a label. Type a name which you will see in the Mail app and turn on the items that you want to synchronize from your Gmail account (make sure “Mail” option is turned on).

Customizing Options

• You can view all the added email accounts under “Settings > Apps > Mail > Mail Accounts” section. Below the list of accounts, tap on “Fetch New Data” and turn on “Push” option so that the Mail app will automatically fetch emails from Gmail server whenever possible.
• On the “Mail” settings page, you can customize various options like default mail, signature, sending delay, etc.

Viewing Your Emails

• Open “Mail” app to see your Gmail account is visible.
• You can compose, read and send emails directly from the app.

Note: Emails will NOT occupy storage space on your iPhone as they will be still on the server. It means the mails will be still part of your Google account’s 15 GB free Gmail storage space. If you have provided deleting permission, emptying trash will permanently delete the emails from your account.