Turn alarms off for a specific calendar, e.g. for a subscribed calendar

With the new MobileMe calendar, you can use iCal on your Mac to subscribe to calendars. When you set the subscription's location to be your MobileMe account, it propagates to the iPhone.

iCal gives you the option to strip alarms, attachments and to-dos from subscribed calendars.

Unfortunately, my iPhone does not honor that option. It keeps ringing alarms for my wife's calendars. I believe this is a bug.

I chatted with MobileMe support about this. The support person seemed surprised to hear that my wife's alarms make it through to my iPhone. Unfortunately, they were unable to help.

Pierre

Same problem here. My wife syncs with my Google calendar so that she can see my ludicrous timetable and add the odd event. Unfortunately, she also gets all of my alarms - of which there are many. Ideally, she wants to be able to switch off all alarms for my calendar. I can't find any way of doing this.

Come on Apple...surely there are couples all over the world who share calendars and have the same problem?

Same problem here. Just wanted to add my voice to yours. Very frustrating bug.

I have the alarms turned off/ignored for this particular subscribed calendar within iCal on my Mac. So, I don't see them on the computer. MobileMe just doesn't seem to share that setting with the iPhone, as the iPhone displays alarms for this calendar constantly.

Another vote here.....my wife needs to know my appointments but doesn't need the alarms....PLEASE can we be given the facility to switch off alarms by calendar.

Same problem. I don't know whether it's a bug or intended (hard to believe, but "remove alarms" on the mac could mean just on the mac...).

Anyway, only solution I've found (which I think works) is:

1. Subscribe to the calendars on my Mac in iCal specifying "On My Mac" as the Location of the calendar (not MobileMe), and

2. Subscribe manually on my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad), which gives an option to disable alarms.

You do 2 through Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add Account... -> Other -> Add Subscribed Calendar, and then entering all the info, and turning on the option to ignore alarms.

Not ideal, but I think it works.

Thanks for your post Greg. I did try this and it worked like a charm. I'd like to add that you will need to go into Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars to switch off calendars and then turn it back on again for the changes to take effect. For some reason the iPhone doesn't reflect changes to the calendars in the display list until this action is done.

Ditto. Fix it apple

Just to add another voice to say 'fix it please' - such a great thing to be able to share calendars and this problem makes it almost unusable (if I get another appointment popping up saying 'facial' I'll scream)

Yes, another voice asking PLEASE FIX!