Sync shared Google Calendar with iPhone

There are a couple of options to share your Google Calendar with others. In your Google Calendar settings, you can allow other people to see or edit events on your calendar. This option is great when you want to keep other people up-to-date about your schedule or delegate events to manage.

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Share your calendar via Google Calendar Settings
How to share Google Calendar on your iPhone via Calendars by Readdle
How to stop a calendar from syncing across your devices
Any questions?
Why can't I see a shared Google Calendar on my iPhone?
Can I view a shared calendar on my iPhone?
Can you share Google Calendar with iPhone calendar?

When you need to show someone your schedule for a specific day, week, or month without sharing your entire calendar, you can use Calendars by Readdle. This is the best calendar and task manager app for iPhone and iPad which lets you win back your time.

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Open Google Calendar in a browser. There is no possibility of sharing the calendar using the Google Calendar app on your iPhone.
Click on the My Calendars section on the left to see the list of calendars.
Hover over the calendar you want to share, click
More and choose Settings and sharing.

In the Share with specific people section, click Add people.
Enter the name or email address of the needed person.
Click Permissions and choose one of the options from the list. You can decide how other people see your calendar and if they can manage events.

Click Send to share your calendar.

The people you’ve shared your calendar with can see it in their "Other calendars" list. When you share a calendar with an email group, they need to click on the link in the email invitation from Google Calendar. Then, the shared calendar appears on their "Other calendars" list.

Launch Calendars.
Tap the menu icon at the top left or just swipe from left to right side of the screen.
Tap Export Your Calendar.
Decide which calendars you want to share. You can export your schedule for a specific day, week, or month. Tap Period to choose the needed dates.
If you want to share only the events scheduled for your working hours, enable the Only working hours toggle. You can set your working hours in Settings > View Options > Working Hours.

If you have multiple calendars, tick the ones you want to share.
Tap Share at the top right and choose the sharing option. For example, you can email your calendar, send it via iMessage, save it to Files, etc. Your calendar is exported as a PDF file.

Once you’ve learned how to share Google Calendar on your iPhone, it’s time to explore the power of Calendars.

Calendars by Readdle is a smart and beautiful personal assistant that helps you make the most out of every day. You can connect your Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars in seconds to keep all your tasks and events in one place. With its powerful features like natural language input, task manager, and recurring events, Calendars by Readdle empowers you to become more productive and stay on top of your schedule.

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Updated March 2017 with additional steps for un-syncing calendars.

If you accepted an invitation from someone to share a Google calendar but aren't seeing it on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac; it could be due to your Google Sync settings. Google turns sync off by default for new calendars, particularly shared ones. It's frustrating, and it's why you can't immediately see them on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac even when you can see them online. Luckily it's also simple to fix — once you know how!

Launch Safari or any other web browser on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Go to calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect.
Sign in if you aren't already.
Under Shared Calendars, tick the boxes for the calendars you want to see on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here's the fix!

It can take a few minutes for the calendars to appear. If they don't appear right away, close the Calendar app and reopen it.

How to stop a calendar from syncing across your devices

If you have a shared Google calendar that you only need access to every once in a while, so you don't want it on your iPhone, you can un-sync it. I share a practice space calendar with about a dozen people, which takes up pretty much all the space on my calendar app. Un-syncing it from Google's calendars makes my schedule look a lot less daunting.

Launch Safari or any other web browser on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Go to google.com/calendar/syncselect.
Sign in if you aren't already.
Untick the box for any calendar you don't want to sync with your iPhone or iPad's Calendar app.
Click Save to save the settings.

Un-tick the box to un-sync the calendar

From now on, those calendars won't even appear as an option for you to add to the built-in Calendar app (or even any third-party app that supports Google Calendar).

Any questions?

Do you have any questions about syncing shared Google Calendars with the built-in iPhone and iPad Calendar app? Put them in the comments and we'll help you out.

Allyson Kazmucha contributed to an earlier version of this article.

Lory is a renaissance woman, writing news, reviews, and how-to guides for iMore. She also fancies herself a bit of a rock star in her town and spends too much time reading comic books. If she's not typing away at her keyboard, you can probably find her at Disneyland or watching Star Wars (or both).

Why can't I see a shared Google Calendar on my iPhone?

To fix the shared Google Calendar not showing up on iPhone, you need to go to its website. To do this, simply open Safari and access calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect. Then, sign in to your Google account. From the Shared Calendar tab, tap the calendars you want to show up on your iPhone.

Can I view a shared calendar on my iPhone?

The shared private calendars you join appear in Calendar on iCloud.com and on any device that's signed in with the same Apple ID and has Calendars turned on in iCloud settings.

To sync your iPhone and Google calendars: Open Settings on the iPhone. Scroll down and select Calendar. Tap Accounts.