Comments on: iPhone 3.0 and Google Calendars (Updated)

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??

By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:19 +0000

@Nick – I have the same setup as you’ve described, and yes, there doesn’t appear to be a way of changing the default colour of “dark red” for the Exchange calendar. I’ve resorted to changing the colours for my Google calendars to suit … not ideal, I know.

By: Philotech

Philotech — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:59:31 +0000

Commenting my on question two posts above:
This has been solved, sorry it was a stupid oversight: All secondary accounts in iCal are listed under the third tab representatives/substitutes (don’t know what it is called exactly in the English version).

By: Philotech

Philotech — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:05:19 +0000

@Nick:
Are you sure your main calendar is not just the local iCal calendar but is one of the Google calendars being synced to Google? This misconception appears to me to be a main cause for failure. So many people complain that syncing works only one-way with them, I assume not realizing that they enter appointments just in their local iCal / iPhone Calendar app calendar.

By: Philotech

Philotech — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:02:56 +0000

Anyone here also using iCal on a Mac?
Even with Elena’s great hint I just don’t get this to work on my Mac. When I insert that same URL, iCal will immediately recognize the %23 as # and then, because it apparently knows that # won’t work in an URL, delete the whole part of the URL starting with the #. This leaves me with the really short URL /dav/calender which obviously doesn’t bring me by birthday calendar :(
Any help greatly appreciated!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:02:09 +0000

Thanks. Great post.
I just don’t understand why I can’t have the colors match between google and my iphone for the main google account.
I’ve used your second method (multiple google calendar subscriptions, since Exchange is already configured for my office agenda)
Main google cal on iphone stays browish, whatever color I pick on calendar.google.com
All other google calendars change colors on iphone to match what I pick on the website

Beats me :(

Anyone encountered the same pbm?