Comments on: How To: View Calendars Published to MobileMe on iPhone

By: Lex

Lex — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:32 +0000

@Lauren7, mw:

The dots are caused by recurring events starting before Dec 12, 1932 (eg. birthdays for some elderly people). Edit those events in gCal and the problem should be resolved. It worked for me. See this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2049299&start=30&tstart=0

By: mw

mw — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:13:11 +0000

@Lauren7

I have the same problem with my Gmail calendar. It's annoying!!

Why does the CalDAV sync make all the days look like they have appointments in month view???

By: nev

nev — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:01:19 +0000

I could not do this in the way described in the Apple support article. Sent myself the email with the calendar URL, opened the email on iPhone, tapped on the URL - but this opened Safari which reported that it couldn't download the file.

But I did get it to work using the method described by jstrickland above in answer to alfagta.

Why all those instructions when the method doesn't work!

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:39:25 +0000

On the plus side, the subscriptions work well. If you go to the iCal Library (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/) in your iPhone’s Safari browser you can subscribe to some calendars simply buy hitting the ‘Download’ button. Works really well. They’re good for national holidays and sports team schedules.

By: Lauren7

Lauren7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:28:39 +0000

Does anyone have a problem where if you publish your birthdays calendar this way it creates a “dot” on all of the days of your iPhone calendar in month view, indicating an event, even if there are no events listed on some days?

By: Entertainment72

Entertainment72 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:05:02 +0000

This is how I configured CalDAV for Google Calendar:

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Tap “Add Account…”, then “Other” Under Calendars, “Add CalDAV Account” Enter account information: Server: http://www.google.com User Name: [your username] Password: [your password] Description: [e.g. Personal] Tap “Next”

By: Dizash

Dizash — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:11 +0000

Finally figured it out by turning off calendar on Mobile Me. When turning back on I was able to delete all calendars on the iPhone. Nice!

By: Dizash

Dizash — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:19:38 +0000

I can't find an answer for this anywhere: I've now moved exclusively to Mobile Me and subscribed calendars. In the calendar app there is still a list of all of my calendars on my mac, called "On My IPhone." I'd love to get rid of this list because I don't sync those calendars anymore and would love my "All Calendars" list to reflect just my Mobile Me cals and my subscribed cals.

Anyone have any ideas? I've already reset the sync data on isync, relaunched itunes and made sure the calendar section on the info tab on itunes was unchecked but the calendars still show up.

Please help!!!

By: jstrickland

jstrickland — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:10:24 +0000

@ alfagta

Go to Mail, Contacts, and Calendar settings. Choose to add an account. When faced with the options, choose other. You will then see the option to subscribe to a caldav calendar.

@Plasmanut If the Family Activities Calendar is in MobileMe, can't your wife just set that account up on her iPhone to have full access?

I love this new Caldav support.

@ Scott R & @iPhoneMilk The caldav support should be for any published caldav calendar. Just go into the settings I mentioned above and subscribe to the calendar you want.

If I have one issue, it is that the user still can't control the calendar colors. Why can't Apple let us decide what color we want the calendar to be?

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:23:26 +0000

This still confuses me and its maddening apple simply doesnt have step by step directions to do certain things. I have birthdays set up in my contacts, they show up in my ical on my powerbook. I then had them show up in the mobileme calender. BUT they still dont go to my iphone!!! what am I doing wrong?