I use the built-in Apple Calendar application. My significant other uses Google’s calendar. Is there a good way for us to share one specific calendar between the two of us on these separate apps so that I can continue to use the normal Mac Calendar app? I really would like to not have to have two calendar apps if possible. I poked around in the Mac calendar settings and didn’t see a way to share one calendar without having to add her account (which I don’t want to do). Thank you in advance for any solutions.
Sharing an Apple Calendar with a Google Calendar User
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Navigate to: Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data
And set:
- Push = ON
- Fetch = (as often as you like)
Move to Advanced, and set iCloud to Push
Following some trial and error, and additional reasoning, I can partially answer my own question:
(1) The events from a local calendar, on an iPhone ("On This Phone", I think it is referred to), are not backed up to the calendar-specfic area in iCloud. Here:
iCloud.com > Settings > (Advanced section) > Restore Calendars and Reminders
Although it doesn't say so explicitly, it makes sense that these iCloud calendar backups cover a user's iCloud calendars. (Plus, my attempt to restore such backups with a hope to see pre-merged, local calendars, failed).
Screen shot from iCloud.com:
(2) The iPhone backup (the complete backup of the whole phone), which in my case was being backed up to iCloud (rather than iTunes), would, I presume, include the local calendars and their events.
However, by time I'd got to looking at this, my oldest 'complete' iCloud backup was just a day old... which was after I merged the local calendars into iCloud calendars.
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Best Answer
You can subscribe to her Google calendar if all you want is for the events to show up for you. Easy enough to have her create a read-only link for you - and you can do the same for an iCal calendar (https://www.imore.com/how-publicly-share-calendar-your-iphone-and-ipad).