Create an App Password
One password per device, so losing a phone never means changing your real one.
Before You Begin
- Knowing what device sync does
- The device you intend to set up, to hand — the password is shown once
Calendar apps sign in with a username and password. Rather than putting your real Zyntro password onto every device, you generate a separate app password for each one.
That gives you two useful things: your real password never leaves Zyntro, and each device can be cut off on its own. Lose your phone and you revoke its password; your laptop keeps working.
Everything here is on the iOS & Android Calendar integration screen, which you reach from Integrations.
Steps
Open the calendar sync screen
From Integrations, open iOS & Android Calendar. Despite the name it covers desktop calendar apps too.
The screen shows everything a device needs, and the list of app passwords you have already created.
Note your server address and username
Two addresses are shown, and which one you use depends on the device:
- Server (iOS / macOS) — a bare name with no
https://and no trailing slash. Apple's Calendar wants it in this form. - Base URL (Android / Thunderbird) — the full link, including
https://and the trailing slash.
Using the wrong form is the most common reason a device fails to connect. Copy the one labelled for your device.
Your username is the email address you use for Zyntro, the same on every device.
Generate a password for this device
Click to add an app password. You are asked for a Password Name — a label so you can tell later which device it belongs to. iPhone Calendar or Work MacBook is exactly right; password 1 will not help you in six months.
Click Generate, and the password is shown.
Copy it now
You will not be shown this password again. Copy it straight away and go and set the device up, or paste it somewhere safe in the meantime.
If you lose it before using it, nothing is broken — delete that entry and generate another. It is cheaper than trying to recover one.
Revoke a device when you stop using it
The screen lists every app password you have created. Removing one immediately stops that device syncing, and affects nothing else.
Revoke when you replace a phone, when a device is lost, or when you simply stop using one. Because each device has its own password, this never interrupts the others.
Result
You have a server address in the right form for your device, your username, and an app password named after the device it is for.
Those three values are all any of the device guides will ask you for.
Warning: An app password gives full access to your calendars. Treat it like any other password: one per device, never shared, and revoked as soon as a device is out of your hands.
