How To Add Gmail To Icloud Mail

And then, yous want to ditch your Gmail address in favour of Apple iCloud. Good decision (although we'll wait at a few reasons why yous might non demand to take such desperate activity below).

If you have decided you don't want to proceed to apply your Gmail account it'south like shooting fish in a barrel to copy all your existing Google emails over to your iCloud Postal service folders. And in one case you accept washed that you can direct Gmail to divert any futurity emails to your Apple email address. Nosotros'll explain how below.

How to copy your Gmail emails to iCloud

1) Showtime by setting up Mail on your Mac, iPhone or iPad to accept your Gmail emails. This article explains how to set upwardly your Apple tree Postal service app to accept Gmails: How to gear up Mail service.

2) If you have folders in Gmail that you wish to replicate in iCloud you lot will need to fix these up earlier copying your emails over. Here's how to create a new folder in the iCloud mail section of your Mail app:

On a Mac right-click on iCloud (under Inbox) and select New Mailbox. Choose a Proper noun for your mailbox, for example, Gmail Archive. The folder volition appear in the iCloud further down on the left.
On an iOS device, go to Mailboxes > Edit then cull New Mailbox. Name the Mailbox, and choose iCloud as the location.

3) Now you are ready to re-create over the Gmail emails you wish to go on into the new binder in iCloud. Information technology's all-time to re-create rather than elevate and drop just in case something goes wrong during the process. To re-create the emails in Mail on a Mac select the emails in the Gmail folder, right click and choose Copy To and then choose the folder you simply prepare. To copy the emails on an iOS device, tap in Edit then select the mails y'all wish to copy (or Marker All) and so cull Move and choose the folder you fix upward. (You could copy the emails into your Inbox if you don't require a separate binder).

4) One time your emails take copied over (beware it tin take a while if you take a large email business relationship) you should exist condom to remove Gmail from your Mail service app.

On a Mac go to Mail > Accounts select the Gmail address and click on the minus button and confirm that yous want to Plow Off Account.

On an iOS device, go to Settings > Postal service > Accounts, tap on the Gmail business relationship and then chose Delete Account.

At this signal yous will take the emails from your Gmail business relationship in your iCloud business relationship and you could exit it at that, never opening your Gmail over again. Except that it'southward likely that there might exist some emails sent to that account that y'all wouldn't desire to miss.

You either need to change the e-mail address that those emails are being sent to (which will be a case of going through your subscriptions and contacting friends and colleagues) or, by far the easier pick, setting up email forwarding in Gmail.

How to set up email forwarding from Gmail to iCloud

Of course it might be the case that you don't wish to continue to receive the Gmail emails, possibly you discarded that account long ago and now it's but full of spam in which case you tin just close your Gmail account, which is a unproblematic case of signing in to your account, scrolling downwardly to the Account preferences department, and choosing Delete your account or services.

However, if you want to forward the emails sent here this is what you need to do:

1) Go to gmail.com click on the cog then Settings and choose the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.

2) Enter your iCloud address when asked for a forwarding address.

three) You will receive an email to verify permission. You volition demand to add a verification code before the electronic mail forwarding will start. If yous later determine that you don't desire to continue to forwards these emails y'all tin click on Remove the Accost.

4) At present all emails sent to your gmail account will be diverted to your iCloud accost.

Why you don't need to finish using Gmail

If your only reason for combining your Gmail and iCloud accounts was because you wanted to access all your emails from one identify, it may not exist necessary to go to such lengths as transferring your emails from one to the other.

The easiest way to combine your two email addresses is to use Apple tree's Mail app. You lot can admission this on a Mac or on an iPhone or iPad. Yous tin set up up Mail and so that both your iCloud email and your Gmail appears in the app.

Both email accounts can even share the aforementioned inbox and y'all can prepare rules up to filter emails sent to either address. If this sounds like it would really solve your issue, read: How to gear up email on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.

Y'all may have some other reason to turn your dorsum on Gmail. A colleague one time insisted on using an iCloud email address rather than a Gmail address because he was confident that Apple wasn't snooping on his emails and targeting ads depending on the content in them, while Google is known to scan your emails for advertising purposes (although if you are paying to use the Google Apps for Work version information technology shouldn't be doing that).

Apple on the other hand prioritises your privacy, boasting on its website that "all traffic betwixt any email app you lot employ and our iCloud mail service servers is encrypted. And our iCloud servers support encryption in transit with other e-mail providers that back up it."

Another reason for moving from Gmail might exist the simple fact that as the owner of multiple Apple gadgets you are happy using iCloud electronic mail, all the same, as nosotros accept shown you above, it is actually easy to add together your Gmail account to your Mail app, and receiving Gmail in that location is no different to receiving iCloud emails at that place. Plus if yous have both an iCloud and a Gmail address you volition get more GB of free storage for your emails, so nosotros recommend you take advantage of that.

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