Wednesday 18 May 2016

IFTTT update: Upgrade your address book with Google Contacts, iOS, and IFTTT

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Since iOS Contacts integrated with IFTTT, hundreds of thousands of users have used the Channel to run millions of Recipes. Today, we’re excited to announce that Google Contacts is available as well! Now whenever you add a new contact, on iOS or through Google, you can run Recipes.

To help you make the most of this new connection, here are two simple ways to supplement your contacts with IFTTT:

1. Keep everyone in context
Never forget where, when, and why you met a contact. Connecting your contacts with calendars, notes, or email will put some context around the chaos in your phone.

IFTTT Recipe: Whenever you add a new contact mark it in your Google Calendar connects ios-contacts to google-calendar

IFTTT Recipe: Save new visitor contact information in Google Contacts connects envoy to google-contacts

IFTTT Recipe: Who did you meet last night? Follow an email trail of your latest contacts connects ios-contacts to email

IFTTT Recipe: Whenever you add a new Google contact mark it in your Google Calendar connects google-contacts to google-calendar

2. Never lose a connection
Spare yourself the awkward “New phone, who’s this?” text exchange. Back up your contacts automatically by syncing them between iOS and Google, or with a storage service.

IFTTT Recipe: Save new iOS Contacts to Google Contacts connects ios-contacts to google-contacts

IFTTT Recipe: Sync new contacts to a Google Spreadsheet connects ios-contacts to google-drive

IFTTT Recipe: Backup iOS Contacts to Dropbox connects ios-contacts to dropbox

IFTTT Recipe: Turn new Google Contacts into sales leads on Salesforce connects google-contacts to salesforce

Now your nearest and dearest are in good hands with IFTTT, Google, and iOS.