Comments on: Google Calendar Announces iCal Support

By: allison

allison — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:27:23 +0000

same problem as EW and flix. boo.

By: beth

beth — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:15:16 +0000

Gary, can you explain more how you made the iphone sync with yahoo calendar. I am desperate!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:35:49 +0000

BusySync has been a big fat disappointment for my wife and me. We tried repeatedly to get it to sync our iCal and Google Cals withot success.

By: gary

gary — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:49:28 +0000

Yahoo! calendar also supports this as well. I exported my local iCal calendars to ics files, set up corresponding calendars on Y! calendar, shared them on Yahoo!, set them up in iCal, and deleted the local copies! Works like a champ.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:22:14 +0000

Been using this for a few days now, its syncing great between iCal and Google Cal but I cannot get it to sync to my iphone through mobile me. Prior to CalDav i was using spanning sync and it was working really well but I dove for the google tool when it came out. As far as people saying it wont sync with subscribed calenders, it will only sync to them if you have read & write access to the calendar you are trying to sync to. If you only have read (or view) then it wont sync. Kinda a bummer, but at least if you know the person/group, you can just ask them to add you to write access if they dont mind, otherwise you are SOL for now.

By: Peter E

Peter E — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:30:13 +0000

Progress, definitely. You can avoid retyping by using iCal to manually drag an event from the generic Calendar and move it into your Google calendar account. It then syncs properly.

But you should just be able to add an event to the Google-synched calendar automatically on the iPhone.

By: flix

flix — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:00:03 +0000

I can create and delete events in Google Calendar and iCal in mac and they sync fine with each other and iPhone. But as EW said, you can’t create an event from iPhone iCal and sync it with Google Cal, instead it will create a new Calendar for iCal in mac and put the iPhone entered event there. Bottom line, you can add, edit, delete events in google and mac and they sync fine with iPhone but won’t work the other way around.

By: Griff

Griff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:48:27 +0000

Still doesn’t work with subscribed calendars in Google Calendar. Deal breaker for me.

By: EW

EW — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:23:46 +0000

One bug found so far–in the Calendar app on your iPhone, you create an event in one of your google calendars, but then you save it and it has been created in the default calendar. I even deleted all the calendars from iCal on the Mac except for the google calendars I am syncing with–then re-sync the iPhone with iTunes, and only the google calendars show up in Calendar. Then create an event, and sure enough, it ends up in a new calendar called “Calendar.” So you can’t yet create events in the Calendar app on the iPhone and have them sync through to google calendar with this. I assume Google will fix this bug…

By: MrEClass

MrEClass — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:01:21 +0000

@Bill: Thanks for the heads up on NemusSync–another reason everyday why I’m glad I devirginized my iPhone