Feb 1, 2024
Changes on my Apple Calendar does not show up on Google Calendar
I've tried adding/changing events on the Google Calendar in the Apple Calendar app and the Google Calendar app. It works, and I can see the changes show on both calendars.
But changes on the iCloud Calendars are not shown on the Google Calendar even when I made the them public and imported them into my Google Calendar. Is that normal?
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You wrote "changes on the iCloud Calendars are not shown on the Google Calendar even when I made the them public and imported them into my Google Calendar"
If I understand correctly everything works perfectly in the mobile apps, but when you add the iCloud calendar URL to Google Calendar in a browser (using "Add Calendar" > "Subscribe") it doesn't update online when changes are made to the Apple calendar.
Is that accurate?
Last edited Feb 2, 2024
Feb 2, 2024
There are a few important things we should clarify here to make sure I can understand what's going on, and that we understand each other:
Importing with a URL is known as "subscribing".
When you subscribe, it is a one-way process where events from the URL are copied into the calendar platform where you subscribed.
This means that you added your Apple calendar to Google using a URL in a browser (subscribed), and your Apple events will be copied into Google Calendar.
Since this is a subscribed calendar you can't edit or delete the events in Google, or create new events on that calendar. With this method any changes made in Apple Calendar can take 24 hours to show up in Google.
Google's mobile app on iOS and Apple Calendar on osX or iOS work very differently.
These apps allow you to add both your Apple/Google accounts directly on the device, and they can access each others events directly allowing you to edit, delete or create new events on either Apple or Google Calendar.
To complicate matters further... It is possible to subscribe to your Apple Calendar in Google Calendar by URL, and also add your Google account to an Apple device.
Doing this would mean you see your 'real' Apple calendar (listed under 'iCloud') AND Google's subscribed version of your Apple Calendar (listed under 'Google').
The latter is not useful, however, as you cannot edit a subscribed calendar - and you already have full access to it anyway under iCloud.
For this reason it's usually best to disable sync for the subscribed version here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect
The only reason an Apple user would subscribe to their Apple Calendar by URL in Google Calendar is to view it online in a browser.
So, I think what you need to do is disable sync for the subscribed read-only version of your Apple Calendar (so it doesn't show up under Google in your screenshot), and instead give the Google Calendar App direct access to your Apple Calendar, as I've described here:
Last edited Feb 2, 2024
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