The following is a series of instructions on how to change the Gmail settings so that it allows it to connect to your phones Email App. These instructions are not for those using the “free” Gmail; this is for those who signed up for the free trial for the “Gmail for work – G Suite Program” or are already a monthly paying member for that service.

2. After you sign in, you will be at the Admin Console. At the bottom of this page, you will see a box that says “More Controls”, Click that box.

3. Now a new row of icons should appear. Find the icon that says “Security”, and click it.

4. Now you are on the “Security” page. The First row should have a link called “Basic Settings”, Click it.

5. Now you are on the “Basic Settings” page. Scroll down until you find a row titled “Less secure apps”. This Row should then have a link called “Go to settings for less secure apps”, Click that link.

6. Now you are on the “Advanced Security Settings” Page. You should see a few rows of options. By default, the option “Disable Access To Less Secure Apps” is checked. This prevents our phone from connecting to our paid Gmail account.

7. We are going to change that setting by clicking the option below it called “Allow user to manage their access to less secure apps”. After that option is selected, click the “Save” option that will appear on the bottom right of your screen.

9. Click your Avatar on the top right of your page to open the drop down menu.

10. Click “My Account”. Now you should be on the “My Account” page.

11. In the first row, the first option should be a box called “Sign in & Security”, Click it.

12. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and you should see the last option called “Allow less secure apps: OFF”. By default, this option is set to off. We want to turn it on, so click the icon to the right that looks like a switch. Now it should say “Allow less secure apps: ON”. There is no “Save” button to click here, so this option will automatically save.

13. That’s it! Now download the Google Email app and you can connect it to your Paid Gmail Account.

How To Connect G Suite Gmail For Work To Phone Email App

Configure SPF records to work with G Suite

“. Without an SPF record, your domain may look suspicious for some recipient servers, which would prevent some or all emails from being received when you send them.


1) Login to your Host AMP
2) Click WHM
3) Search for “Edit DNS Zone” and select it
4) Select your domain
5) Scroll to the bottom of the settings and find “Add New Entries Below This Line”
6) Go the the first field and type the domain name following by a dot so “example.com.”
7) Leave the “IN” at 900
8) Select TXT from the dropdown
9) Put the SPF record that was listed in the Google Article in the quote field, so in this case “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”
10) Select “Remote Mail Exchanger”
11) Click Save

A DKIM Record is like a digital signature that tells some company’s who have higher security on receiving emails that your email is not spam.

You first might have to login to your host cPanel and enable the ability to add a DKIM key for your domain. You would login to your domains cPanel > go to Email Authentication > Find DKIM and click “Enable” then follow the steps below.


1) Log into your Admin console
2) Go to Apps > G Suite > Gmail > and scroll down and click on “Authenticate email”
3) Click on “Generate new record” and choose your DKIM key length (normally 1024 would suffice or for higher security leave the length as 2048) and click on “Generate”
4) Copy the DKIM key (long string of text)
5) Log into your webhost service to manage your DNS in order to add a TXT record just like how you’ve added an SPF record … but instead of “900” put the number “14400”
6) The hostname should be: 


7) And paste the DKIM key you’ve copied in the value field
8) Make sure to save your changes
9) Go back to your Admin console where the DKIM key is displayed and then click on “Start Authentication”

2) To check DKIM Record click “TXT” and type your domain name like this as one string (replacing my domain name with yours): 

3) To check other records like “SPF”, just type your domain name normally, like this: 

How To Add An SPF And DKIM Record To Your Paid Gmail

I will use the Ethos stack for this example.

 to the same folder in your child theme: 

2) Open the copied file in a code editor, delete the following block of code and then save the file and your done.

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