Paul's Blog: IFTTT update: Upgrade your address book with Google Contacts, iOS, and IFTTT

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

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

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.