Comments on: iPhone 3.0 and Google Calendars (Updated)

By: Oli

Oli — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:58:27 +0000

Hi Amy, can I just check - are you using the iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS? If so, then you really should follow the updated instructions on my newer post: iOS 4 and Google Calendars Apple and Google have changed the way multiple calendars are supported. I hope that helps :)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:59:15 +0000

Please help me. I followed your directions for Solution #2 for adding syncing multiple Google Calendars. I get to the step 6 instruction follow it and my phone tells me “Unable to verify account information” Looks as if the Account URL is too long. When I go back to look at what’s entered there it’s been cut off.

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:36:24 +0000

Hi everyone! I’ve been getting quite a few enquiries about this article, and the fact there are easier ways of setting this up under iOS4. I absolutely agree – this article was written for iPhone OS 3, so it’s a little out of date now. I’ve create a separate How-To post specifically for iOS 4 to help clarify things.

Thanks to everyone for their input on this over the past few months. Syncing your Google calendars has gotten a lot easier, that’s for sure!

The new post is at:

http://blog.olitee.com/2010/10/ios-4-and-google-calendars/

By: iOS 4 and Google Calendars | is this thing on?

iOS 4 and Google Calendars | is this thing on? — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:30:16 +0000

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By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:07:59 +0000

Hi guys – one question that has REALLY been difficult to find an answer to is: How can I share my Iphone calender with my Google-calendar <- meaning that I dont even use the Google calender, but in order to have the opportunity to share my Iphone calender with my girlfriend's Iphone calender, we must go through Google-calender, right? So its the other way around I want to do it; create a event on my Iphone, sync it with Google calendar, so that when my girlfriend syncs her Iphone calendar with google, she can see the event I made on my Iphone, and this will now be in her calender as well… Does this make any sense :-)? Would really love an advice.

By: Oli

Oli — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:43:41 +0000

@Bob: thanks for the link. Yes, Google have added that feature since I wrote this … I think I need to get my act together and update this for iOS4! One thing to note everyone: You can visit that link on your iPhone if you want. Cheers.

@James: There is no /user part … it’s literally that: “/user”. Just go carefully through Solution #2 again, and look at the example I give. The important thing is the calendar ID (which I describe how to get in the 2nd paragraph of that solution). Your final URL should look exactly like the example, just with different numbers before the “@group.calendar.google.com/user” bit.

In answer to your other question, yes – once setup you can create and edit appointments on your iPhone.

I’ve not updated this article for iOS4 yet – but if you are using an iPhone running the new OS, then I recommend a simpler approach. Just setup your GMail account as normal on the iPhone. This will give you access to your mail, notes and your primary Google calendar. To get access to the rest, use the link that Bob suggested:

http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect (you can open this on your iPhone is you want)

Then just select the additional calendars you want to sync, and hit save. Your additional calendars should now sync. So much easier than the manual method I describe above!

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:37:07 +0000

OK. Looks great. However where the heck do I find the /user part of the server string?

I log on to my google calendar using an email address as a user name and if I add that to the server address on the iphone when trying to add the second calendar to the iphone it just showes https in the server box and then gives me the can’t log on with https error. Then, Server validation failed and no joy.

I suspect it is because I am putting the /user part in the in the wrong format. So… how do I find this last most important bit of data?

Thanks for the tutorial

Also when it is all set up will I be able to add/edit events on google calendar from the iphone and then have them show up changed on the web?

Cheers,

James

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:36:46 +0000

After some searching around, it turns out google has a nice solution to adding calendars beyond the first one. Just go to http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect and it will give you a list of your calendars. You simply check the box for the calendar you want to add.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:26:57 +0000

This is great. I have abandoned another method I was using, as this one seems to work a little better. One last little problem: all of my calendars are on Google. I have no “Mac-based” calendars. However, when someone sends me an invite, it ONLY records the invite on the “home” calendar on my mac and I do not get a possibility to move it to a google-based calendar. Any solutions to this? I can’t find any place to indicate to the calendar or email that invites should be recorded on a google-based calendar……..

By: Cesar

Cesar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:24:34 +0000

Hi!
I tried the 3rd solution (ics. file) on my iphone. It works great, but there is a minor problem….
Now all my secondary calendars are for subscription!! Everytime i create or edit an event on my Pc, it asks me if I want to send a notification to myself! why? because Im the only guest on my OWN calendars!!
What can I do to restore the previus setttings??