Syncing iCloud calendar to Google calendar

First off, I know this is quite old....

I've been trying to find an answer to this and couldn't find anything. However, the above answer is not what you are looking for (I think).

What you need to do is open up Setting on your iPhone scroll down to find Google's calendar app. Click on that and turn the "Allow Full Access" toggle to on.

Once you go back into Google Calendar app - click your the letter in the top right hand corner. Click on "Manage accounts on this device." You can now see that "System Account" is available and all calendars that you have synced to your iCloud are available in the Google Calendar app.

This will keep everything synced between all the calendars. I use this because I created iCloud shared calendars with my wife, but she is a google user. It does take 10-15 minutes after you enter something for it to sync up on Google, but they will show up eventually.

This drove me nuts for so long I figured I'd post it somewhere where someone was asking to get this out in the world since I could not find an answer to save my life. :) Good luck!

Choose File > Export > Export. Choose where to save it, then click Export. The events can be exported to a calendar (. ics) file only.

Import or export calendars on Mac - Apple Support (IN)

• Open Google Calendar in a web browser and sign in with your Google account.
• On the left side, find "Other calendars" and click the drop-down arrow.
• Select "Import" from the options.
• Choose the .ics file you downloaded from iCloud and follow the prompts to import the events.

I believe you must commit to one, or the other. You can import your iCloud calendar and then use the Google Calendar app on your iPhone or use the iPhone/iCloud calendar on your phone and other devices and ignore the Google calendar. I do not think there is a way for both to sync in near real time.

You are correct. The only workaround that I know of for this is subscribing to the URL for each calendar on you want to view. However, that's read-only and I'm not sure if that would duplicate the items on your phone. Don't believe there's a better solution at the moment.

If you want to view iCloud account calendar events on the Google Calendar web from a PC you can do this, however it is read only. You cannot make additions/edits to Apple Account calendar events from the Google Calendar web.

So I double-checked with my mother-in-law tonight as my wife shares her work calendar with her (they both use google). It does show up in her Apple calendar. I would suggest double-checking by hitting the hamburger button in the top left (of the Google calendar app) and verify the calendar is checked? Any calendar shared with your account should show up in the "Calendar" list in both apps.

this will only make your icloud calender entries visible in your google calendar app on the iPhone. It will NOT synchronize the two.

This is apparent if you visit google calendar from a browser on a computer. No entries

So the two things:

I have not found a way to make it sync in the google calendar if you are talking about using google.com/calendar.

If you are using the built in calendar in MacOS this is possible. You would have to add the google calendar account under Settings > Accounts. Ensure that the calendar box is checked and you should be able to see it in that calendar app.

Hello. I saw your response to this issue. Does this allow a user to create an iCloud calendar appointment through Google calendar? At this point, I can only view iCloud appointments in my google calendar but I cannot create or modify. Please advise. Thank you!

@shallerusnma Thank you SO much for your post! I have been unsuccessfully looking for why some of my owner/shared iCalendars synced successfully but not the main one I most needed. Days of noodling and no luck. Your post was exactly what was needed to finally fix my problem.

This was unbelievably helpful!! I got my apple calendar synced to my google but I still can’t sync all of the Google one to my Apple. The one in Google is a shared calendar that my daughter’s dance teacher has shared and updates constantly. That’s why I was trying to get it to sync to the Apple calendar. At this point I’m willing to switch over to Google calendars but have appoints and such scheduled out for a year on my Apple calendar. So, ideally that’s the one I would like to continue using if I can make it work. Just wondering if you have any insight on this matter.

Thanks!

I haven’t had time to look at this because I don’t actually use google calendar. But I’m presuming this is specific to the iPhone only as your enabling system accounts when you “allow full access”. Similarly, I’m unable to view my wife’s google calendar unless I sign in with her account on my Mac. This doesn’t appear to be a setting that iCloud syncing uses.

THANK YOU! The Bride wants to be able to use the Apple calendar and Google calendar. Everything I found on the internet seemed incomplete. We followed your steps and her Apple events appeared instantly on her Google calendar.

Thank you very much for your reply to the main question above.

I experienced something baffling. I entered events on my Apple Calendar app (I didn't have the Google Calendar app on the iPhone yet). When I opened my Google Calendar on the web, I saw all the events I entered on the Apple Calendar app on my Google Calendar! I don't know if I'd ever set anything on the Calendars, as I've not used Calendar before this. What baffles me more is that the events I entered were stored 'On My iPhone'.

Now, after seeing this Q&A thread, I've just installed the Google Calendar app on my iPhone. I opened it and found all my entries there as well. It seems to me that the calendars sync both on web and the apps.

Does anyone have any comment or explanation for any of the above occurrences I mentioned?

Thank you.

OMG! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've been wanting to do this forever and could NOT figure out how.

Appreciate your taking time to type up an answer and provide it here. :)