What's new in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.3.3
Jul 21, 2023
- Implemented high resolution syncing of contact photos
- Restored missing search bar on the "Confirm Sync" screen
- Restored missing search bar and delete button on the "Sync History" screen
- Google contacts are completely refetched following the occurrence of a 400/404/412 error
- MacOS 10.13 is no longer supported
- Various other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.2.1 (Feb 8, 2023)
- Contacts Sync is now compatible with macOS Ventura
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.7 (Oct 30, 2022)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.6 (Mar 14, 2022)
- Runs natively on Apple Silicon as well as Intel
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.4 (Aug 11, 2021)
- Integrated all of the recent improvements made to the iOS version of Contacts Sync
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.2 (Jun 11, 2021)
- Further improvements to sync between 2 Google accounts, and to usage of Google's new contacts service
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.1 (Apr 20, 2021)
- Fixed additional issue with sync between 2 Google accounts
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.1.0 (Apr 16, 2021)
- Fixed issue with sync between 2 Google accounts
- Improved handling of Google "over quota" errors
- Further improvements to how Google's new contacts API is used
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.9 (Apr 14, 2021)
- Further improvements to how Google's new contacts API is used
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.7 (Apr 5, 2021)
- Further improvements to how Google's new contacts API is used
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.5 (Mar 31, 2021)
- The "starred" contact group is now synced
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.4 (Mar 28, 2021)
- Further refinements to how Google's new contacts API is used
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.3 (Mar 26, 2021)
- Fixed issue with prior update on macOS 10.13 & 10.14
- Other minor refinements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 8.0.1 (Mar 26, 2021)
- The app now supports syncing 2 Google accounts with each other, in addition to syncing a Google account with a Mac account
- The app now uses Google's new modern API for contacts
- The app now uses Google's latest API for signing into accounts, offering enhanced security
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.2.2 (Jul 1, 2020)
- Fixed issue with contact photos not appearing in Google when syncing Google with certain CardDAV accounts
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.2.1 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Introduces many of the latest improvements from the iOS version of this app, such as dark mode
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.1.4 (Apr 24, 2020)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.1.2 (Apr 23, 2020)
- Fixed issue with restoring purchases
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.0.3 (Feb 15, 2018)
- Addressed crash that occurred when syncing several thousands of contacts.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.0.2 (Nov 29, 2017)
- Better addressed crash that occurs if an Exchange contacts account is active.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 7.0.0 (Nov 16, 2017)
- Optimized for Mac OS X High Sierra.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.5.3 (Mar 11, 2017)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.5.2 (Sep 26, 2016)
- Compatible with MacOS 10.12 Sierra
- Zen Desk integration
- Improved Performance
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.5.1 (Apr 19, 2016)
- Users can sign into their Google accounts using SSO (single sign-on).
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.5.0 (Apr 7, 2016)
- Improved Exchange and Google Sync.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.4.8 (Apr 2, 2016)
- Improved Exchange and Google Sync.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.4.5 (Mar 29, 2016)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.4.2 (Mar 20, 2016)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.4.1 (Mar 12, 2016)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.4.0 (Mar 9, 2016)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 6.3.9 (Mar 3, 2016)
- Various improvements integrated from iOS to Mac
- Read only accounts such as Facebook can be synced
- Addressed some issues with in-app purchases
- Other various improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 5.1.4 (Nov 3, 2015)
- Retina icon for menu bar
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 5.1.2 (Oct 11, 2015)
- Compatible with OS X El Capitan (10.11)
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 5.1.0 (Sep 11, 2014)
- Updated to use Google's OAuth2 authentication protocol for improved security & support for 2 step verification
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 5.0.3 (Sep 4, 2014)
- Fixed in-app purchase issue and other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 5.0.2 (Aug 28, 2014)
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 4.1.6 (Jul 2, 2014)
- Removed unnecessary alerts during auto syncs
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 4.1.5 (Jun 19, 2014)
- Removed prompt about lost Internet connection that would appear when Mac was awakening from sleep.
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 4.1.4 (Jun 9, 2014)
- View past synchronizations using Sync History
- Local notifications are shown if changes occur during an automatic sync
- Fixed issue in which updated passwords wouldn't save on Mac OS X 10.6.8
- Many minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 4.0.2 (Feb 5, 2014)
- “My Contacts” group is synced
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 4.0.1 (Dec 12, 2013)
- Restored 32-bit compatibility
- Redesigned confirm sync screen
- Minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.9.0 (Jun 28, 2013)
- An error message is shown when a Google CardDAV account is detected
- More detailed error messages are shown when a sync fails
- Exchange Server contact field labels are synced properly
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.8.9 (Apr 2, 2013)
- App is no longer shown in the dock if it's visible in the menu bar
- "Sync Status" window is no longer shown at startup if the app was automatically launched
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.8.8 (Mar 20, 2013)
- New setting for turning off the menu bar icon
- New setting for using a black & white menu bar icon
- App can be hidden
- Username & password fields support copy & paste
- Fixed issue with passwords not getting saved on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Upon startup, the user is shown the Google Account window if their credentials are missing. Otherwise, the sync status window is shown
- Other minor usability improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.8.7 (Mar 9, 2013)
- Upon launching the app, a popup window is shown that indicates the location of the app on the menu bar
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.8.6 (Mar 2, 2013)
- App is now accessible via the menu bar (see 1st screenshot)
- Minor bug fix
- App now sandboxed
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.8.3 (Jan 26, 2013)
- App translated into Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, & Spanish
- Custom fields & social profiles are synced
- Improved detection of contact photo changes
- Photos are only uploaded to Google when they actually change resulting in much faster sync times
- Duplicate contacts are detected
- More comprehensive user guide
- Other minor improvements & bug fixes
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.8 (Nov 6, 2012)
- Facebook contacts are automatically ignored
- Minor bug fixes
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.7 (Jul 31, 2012)
- Fixed problem with some contacts not getting synced to Gmail when created from various business card scanning apps
- Exposed option to optionally turn off batched Gmail updates
- Updated user guide
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.6 (May 3, 2012)
- Implemented "exponential backoff algorithm" to deal with Google's quota on how quickly you can send contact/group/photo updates to their servers
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.5 (Apr 25, 2012)
- Contact changes are batched to Gmail in groups of 100 since submitting them individually tends to lead to "503" errors from Google
- Fixed bug that meant that changes in groups in Gmail weren't always synced immediately
- Sync history is cleared when user changes Gmail accounts
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.3 (Apr 3, 2012)
- Increased rate at which contacts are synced
- Fixed bugs
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.2 (Mar 16, 2012)
- Ability to override whether each contact is merged
- More informative sync confirmation screen
- Bug fixes
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.1 (Mar 8, 2012)
- Increased rate at which contacts are synced
- Backend improvements to sync engine
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.7.0 (Feb 29, 2012)
- Contact deletions are automatically synced
- New automatic "contact update mode" determines whether each contact should be merged or updated
- Dramatically increased the rate at which contacts are synced
- Updated user guide
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.8 (Feb 11, 2012)
- Implemented "Confirm Sync" screen
- User can select to manually sync contacts
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.7 (Feb 1, 2012)
- Ability to filter sync by groups
- Instant messaging accounts are synced
- Events such as anniversaries are synced
- Nicknames are synced
- Various bug fixes
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.5 (Jan 5, 2012)
- Custom labels for emails, addresses, phone numbers, websites, & relationships are synced
- Phonetic names are synced
- If the contact update mode is set to merge, groups will be merged as well
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.4 (Dec 20, 2011)
- Restores compatibility with Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Contact photos are more reliably uploaded to Gmail
- Option to "force update all contacts"
- Job title & department fields are synced
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.3 (Dec 17, 2011)
- Option to ignore Gmail's "Other Contacts"
- Option to save password
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6.2 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Contacts merge by default
- Updated user guide
- Other minor improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.6 (Dec 1, 2011)
- 2-way sync mode
- Option to either replace or merge contact fields
- Addressed bug that meant groups weren't always properly assigned in Gmail when updating from Mac to Gmail
- Syncing photos is optional
- User guide
- Numerous bug fixes and improvements
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.2 (Oct 27, 2011)
- Contact photos are synced
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3.1 (Oct 18, 2011)
- Improved performance and responsiveness when updating address books with more than 1000 contacts
- Improved categorization of phone numbers, email addresses, web pages, and postal addresses
- Relationships are synced
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 3 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Changed name of the app to "Contacts Sync With Groups For Gmail"
New in Contacts Sync For Google Gmail 2 (Aug 17, 2011)
- Improved user interface
- Progress bar
- Increased speed
- More alerts
- New icon