Use a family calendar on Google

When you create a family on Google, a calendar called 'Family' is automatically created. Anyone who joins your family or has access to your family calendar can find it when they open Google Calendar on any device on which they're signed in.

Learn how the family calendar works

• Anyone in the family or anyone with access to your family calendar can:
  • Make changes to events on the family calendar.
  • Manage how the family calendar is shared.
  • Edit the family calendar's name.
• On your computer, you can share the family calendar with non-family members.
• If someone leaves the family group, they will lose access to the family calendar.
• If a family manager deletes the family group, the family calendar and related events must be deleted manually.
• The calendar owner will get an email notification when a user under the age of 13:
  • Shares the family calendar
  • Makes the family calendar public
  • Changes member permissions

Create an event on the family calendar

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. At the bottom right, click Create event .
3. In the 'Calendar' section, use the drop-down menu to select the name of your family calendar.
4. Add a title and event details. If you want, you can invite non-family members to join your event.
5. Click Save.

Change your family calendar notification settings

By default, you'll receive the same notifications for upcoming events as you do for your primary calendar. However, you won't receive notifications when a family member creates, edits or deletes an event.

To change your notification settings for upcoming events:

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. On the left-hand side of the page, find the 'My calendars' section.
3. Hover over the name of your family calendar, then click Options .
4. Click Settings.
5. Choose your new notification settings. Changes will be automatically saved.

Share your family calendar with non-family members

Important: By default, non-family members can edit events in the family calendar. The calendar can be changed in the same way that you change it for regular secondary calendars. Understand permissions for shared calendars.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click the Settings menu Settings.
3. Under 'Settings for my calendars', select your family calendar Calendar settings.
4. On the right, under 'Shared with', click Add people and groups.
5. Enter the name of the person or group that you want to share your calendar with.

Delete the family calendar

If you don't need the family calendar anymore, you can permanently delete or unsubscribe from it.

Related resource

• Manage your family on Google