How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

If you and your family want to start using a common calendar to keep your schedules in sync, view multiple calendars on the same screen, and use your mobile devices to view, create, and modify appointments on the go and have them sync with your main Google calendar, then Google makes this process fairly easy. It also uses some new features that make updating your calendar from anywhere quite simple.

How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

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The first step is getting and sharing Google calendars:

How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

  1. Head to the Google Calendar page.

  2. Either sign in to your current calendar or create a new one.

  3. Once you're done, click the Settings menu (little gear icon) at the top of your screen and select the Calendar tab.

  4. Click the link under the Sharing head to see your sharing options.

  5. You can make the calendar public to everybody, but you don't have to — just enter the e-mail addresses of the people you do want to view the calendar.

    You can also give each person the ability to read or modify your calendar. Click Add Person when you're done. Add as many as you want.

  6. When you're done, click Save.

    Each person will get a link to the calendar.

Once your Google calendar is set and shared, and you've got everybody's calendar links, you can set up a single view to view multiple calendars on the same screen, instead of switching from link to link.
  1. Sign in to your Google Calendar and look to the left side of the page.

  2. Under the heading of Other Calendars, if you don’t see the calendars you've been invited to share, then click the Add link to enter the e-mail addresses associated with those calendars you'd like to see.

  3. For the sake of convenience, make these calendars different colors so you can tell all of the appointments apart.

    Just click the down arrow next to the calendar to choose a color.

Once you've shared all of the calendars, you can use your mobile devices to view, create, and modify appointments on the go and have them sync with your main Google calendar.

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A colleague has shared her Google calendar with me. It appears in Google calendar just fine. In the calendar settings I can see the iCal URL, but when I attempt to subscribe to that address in Apple Calendar, it says "A calendar wasn't found on ... Check the URL.".

I suspect this is because the calendar is shared with my via my Google account, rather than been made public. Is there anyway to sync the calendar with my Apple devices? Can I re-share it from my Google account so I can subscribe to it from iCloud?

I tried the syncselect option, which sounded promising, but couldn't see anything happen. I'm not sure how it would work anyway, since I can't see how it would have access to my iCloud account.

asked Apr 29, 2017 at 22:43

How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

There are two methods:

Method 1:

  1. When you open the link of the calendar shared with you. You could click the plus sign at the right corner to add it into your own google calendar.

    How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

  2. Go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect and check the calendar shared with you.

  3. Go to the Mac Calendar and you will find it in your calendar list just under your google account. Check it for display.

Method 2:

  1. As step 1 in Method 1.
  2. Go to the Google Calendar and the shared calendar appears in the "Other calendars", go to the setting of the shared calendar.
  3. Scroll down and find the "Integrate calendar->public address in iCal format" and copy the address.
  4. Open the Mac Calendar and go to "Files -> New Calendar Subscription" and paste the address into the "Calendar URL".

Hope this would work.

answered Dec 30, 2018 at 15:55

Song WANGSong WANG

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Inadvertently found a lovely solution:

  1. Go to System Preferences->Internet Accounts
  2. Add or select your Google account
  3. Click the checkbox next to "Calendars"

Voila, all my Google Calendar calendars appear in Apple Calendar, including the one shared with me. Didn't think there was going to be a solution to this, but so simple once you know.

answered May 1, 2017 at 4:56

How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

Heath RafteryHeath Raftery

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This worked partially. I found one additional step I needed to do: the account shared with me is a "delegated" account. So I had to go into Calendar Preferences, Accounts, and click on the delegates tab for my google account - and make sure the delegated accounts I want to subscribe to are checked.

answered Jan 3, 2018 at 19:14

In @Song WANG's answer, you can use the secret iCal URL in Google Calendar. It is in "Integrate calendar->Secret address in iCal format". See the screenshot.

How do I sync a shared Google Calendar?

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