In the present day and age, most of you reading this article must be familiar with Gmail and must be using it to handle your professional as well as personal interactions. It is the professional mode of conversation, which is used by almost all of us on this platform, and it is a great way of communicating, for this purpose. It is one of the smartest, easy and secure platform.
Moreover, you can use it on whatever device you are using, whether it be an Android, iOS or desktop. Next important term that needs understanding, when talking about Gmail today, is the topic of auto-sync. It is a part of your Android device, that syncs all the contacts, documents and more of such things. The different services provided by your phone and even the different apps which we use in our day to day life, for example, Google, Facebook, Instagram etc.
Thus, in other words, we can say that it is a feature in our device,which helps us connect to the service’s servers. One more facility that Sync option provides you with is that you can retrieve your lost contacts or documents back in your device.
Now, since the terms mentioned above are clear to you, let’s get back to the main topic, what is the use of the auto-sync feature in Gmail? In simple words, when we open a Google account in our phone or desktop, the data that is saved in our Google account at the time and all the services become easily accessible with just a click/tap on our phones or any other device we use, such as tablets, computers or laptops.
The services that will become available/ accessible to us and have been previously mentioned include-contacts, emails, photos and many other things. Thus, this is the main motive behind auto-syncing Gmail. You must be thinking, how is all this possible, and what is the main working principle behind all these?
We are here to clarify all your queries and doubts regarding the same.Let us assume that Google is trying to download all the data stored in your account to your device. In such a scenario, it is a taken that your device will start lagging and this, is what happens mostly when people use devices like Samsung Duos 2, and the like.
Google tackles all these problems and more by bringing to the public, the auto-sync feature. This feature even facilitates us in reading our mails without the botheration and task, of opening it through our browser. With this feature, the email data that is received in your phone is sent to the Google server, and it is then saved in a Google account. After that, the Google account we use for this purpose gets synchronized to all the devices where we use that particular mail.
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Synchronization and it’s benefits
Let us now try to comprehend the meaning and working of synchronization in our phones. In general terms, it is the auto-sync that we allow Google to perform by itself. In this case, you don’t have to refresh it. An important aspect to know is that this feature does not just work for your mails but includes all the other services which are provided to you by Google.
For instance, all your contacts, photos and many other services provided to you by Google are saved on your synced cloud. In other words, when we enable the auto-sync feature, Google itself, i.e. automatically synchronizes all the recent data that has been downloaded in your phone from your Google account, since you last logged in.
I would suggest you keep your auto-sync feature on if you are a frequent mobile phone user. This is a smart move if you are a business person because it is essential for you to constantly check your Gmail so, that you could see if a new email has been sent to your account. However, if you have a device which isn’t properly optimized, as in the case of old Samsung Duos 2, then it’s better, to keep the sync feature off as your device will start to lag a lot.
Lagging sometimes occurs,when you try to connect your device to Google to sync your data, but it can’t manage.This also leads to the reduction of your phone’s battery life and a badly optimized phone. This issue might take place in a few high-end devices as well, though in some phones the problem is more frequent and troublesome than the rest.
The use of the auto-sync feature will facilitate communication to the server, when you receive a new email in your account and will send it to your inbox, instantly. If you have a Gmail App with the auto-sync feature or if it is turned on, in your device and you delete the mail from your smartphone, it will be present in your server and even on the other devices.
When auto-sync is off on your device and if in that case, you happen to delete a particular mail or file, it won’t be shown or available on the other platforms too.This means that all the service swill be interconnected with each other.
I would highly recommend you to sync your Gmail because when this setting is on in your device, then you will automatically get all the notifications and recent emails all the time in your phone. On the contrary, when it’s switched off, you will have to visit your Gmail and swipe down from the top of your inbox to check whether you have received a new email or not. You even need to decide the number of days, for which you choose to sync your Gmail. If you are logged in on your Gmail through many devices then, if you “switch on” the auto-sync mode, this will save your time by preventing you from answering the mails several times.
Conclusion
Well, I hope all these terms and their workings are clear to you now. Hopefully, I have helped you to understand why is it important, for us to have the auto-sync or to say synchronize our Gmail account. Now, to guide you regarding,how can we auto-sync our Google account in Android devices?
For, synchronizing your account, you need first to open the settings of your phone. Click on the accounts option. Next, tap on the account you want to synchronize. At last, click on Account sync.
Following this, a ‘More’ option will be displayed, and you should then click on sync now. Through these simple steps, you could auto-sync your Gmail and remove the tension of going particularly to your Gmail and refreshing it, time and again to check if there are any new mails or not.
This, shall be all from our side, the article includes all the small details you need to know about Gmail, and it’s synchronization, feature. Stay tuned for more such information.
