Sharing your Google Calendar on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac allows you to collaborate with others and stay organized across all your Apple devices. Whether you’re planning events with friends or coordinating work schedules, sharing your calendar ensures everyone stays in sync. You know, someone shares a Google Calendar with you, and you will receive it in the form of a URL link to an ICS file.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the easy steps to share your Google Calendar on iOS and macOS devices, so you can stay connected no matter where you are.
Steps to share the Google Calendar
All iOS and iPadOS users can add that shared google calendar file, and associated events and items will be visible in your phone/tablet calendar app.
Will the shared Google calendar update automatically if the creator makes any changes?
Yes, the update will automatically be applied to your iPhone and iPad calendar apps.
Steps: Ask someone to share the URL with the ICS file to add into the iPhone calendar app
- Open Settings App to share calendars.
- Choose Calendar
- Tap Add accounts
- Choose other in the list
- Hit on the add subscribed Calendar
- Paste the URL associated with the Google Calendar ICS file in the Server section.
- Click Next
- Now, on this subscription screen, enter your username and password if required to access the shared Google calendar.
- Tap on Save to see the changes on your phone or iPad.
Finally, go back to the calendar setting screen. Here you can
see the newly added Google Calendar.
1) Now, the Open Calendar app
2) Click on Calendar appear at the bottom of the screen.
3) next, you will see a calendar screen; on this, look at Subscribed section; here, you can see the newly added google calendar in the list.
To see the event on the google calendar, make sure that the circle to the left of the calendar has a checkmark to see events from that calendar.
Steps to Share Google Calendar on a Mac Computer
Step #1. Open the Calendar app on your Mac.
Step #2. Now click on File option on the top menu bar.
Step #3. A list will show you, let’s Click on New calendar subscriptions Or you can press shortcut keys Option + command +S to directly get the next option
Step #4. Now, enter the .ics file URL that you want to subscribe to.
Step #5. After inserting Url, go with subscribe button.
Step #6. Wait for a while, a screen will appear with the number of settings options that are given below.
Here you can customize your google calendar settings that are available on the desktop screen.
First is the name that shows the associated email address with a color option – you can change the color for this calendar by clicking on the up-down arrow next to the email address filed.
Next filed is denoted subscribed calendar URLs which is copied from another google calendar
Next choose location – available options are on my mac and iCloud
After that, you can set settings for alerts and attachments for this calendar.
If you want to remove then uncheck the tick mark left to the alerts or left to the attachments.
Last updated- here shows the time when the last changes made in the calendar.
Choose settings for refresh frequency of the calendar.
Auto-refresh time –
- No
- Every 5 minutes
- Every 15 minutes
- Every hour
- Every day
- Every week
Last is option to ignore alerts
This is optional. If you don’t want notifications, tick the mark next to’ Ignore alerts’.
In the end, click on Ok
Your task is completed.
Next, after clicking on Ok, the calendar will appear under the iCloud section if you go with that location otherwise under the other section.
To unsubscribe from the calendar on your Mac, follow this article.
Conclusion:-
The Google Calendar app is an excellent alternative to Apple’s native calendar app. It has an amazing feature to share your calendar with someone else. Here I’ll show you step by step how to
We often have several things that need to be shared with my wife, and I can share them in a single calendar app via Google Calendar, which is accessible on both my iPhone and her iPad. For Example, I want to be able to add appointments, and she see them.
