Can you push subscribed calendars to iCloud?

Yes. Make sure thqt the calendar is saved on iCloud and not on your Mac. If so it will sync to iCloud if you have calendar syncing enabled

Viking Bear, sorry, but this solution does not work. There are many other folks on the Forum asking the same question about pushing a subscribed holidays calendar to the iCloud calendar, and currently, there is no way to save a subscribed holidays calendar on iCloud. If you know something that the rest of us don't know, please post specific steps to follow after having tested it yourself first. Thanks.

You are absolutly correct. There seems to be a difference between calendars that are shared as a public calendar and calendars that are shared between individual users. If I share a calendar with a friend, the calendars are pushed between us. If it is a public shared calendar, you have to subsceibe to it on each device and set up how often the device should check for updates. On mobileMe there were push functionality for such calendars, but as far as I know not on iCloud. Sorry, my mistake.

It would seem that Apple has let us down on this one. 😟 There are many threads on this in several of the Support Communities forum pages that reflect people being dissatisfied with the lack of this seemingly simple feature that has been left out of the iCloud calendar. Syncing a subscribed calendar, such as US Holidays, should be an inherent component within the iCloud concept. All my other calendars work flawlessly, but not a subscribed holiday calendar. The solution offered as a work-around has been to subscribe to such a calendar within iCal on your iMac/MBP, and all of your iOS devices, all individually, and never seeing that calendar pushed to iCloud. What a lack of design and development on Apple's part!!! (FAIL!)

There is an unrest underway causing people to post input/feedback to Apple on this lack of interconnectivity for these subscribed calendars in their iCloud calendar. I just posted my extreme frustration over this, and I hope everyone else having this situation follows suit. Here is the link: http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html Peace.

It is true that subscribed calendars do not appear at icloud.com, although they do sync to other devices. This was the same situation for all the years of MobileMe too.

One workaround (although not a solution for frequently updated calendars), is to export the subscribed calendar and re-import it as a static calendar, and then it will appear at icloud.com but obviously it won't update automatically. I've done this for annual UK public holidays etc, as the dates are set a long time in advance, and do not change.

Julian, Just tried your workaround, and imported calendar does not appear at icloud.com. Perhaps that is because when I imported it into iCal on my iMac, it shows in the calendars listing under the sub-heading of "On My Mac" rather than in the category of "iCloud" calendars. It would appear that even iCal knows that I am trying to work around something here. 🙂

Julian, are you absolutly sure about this? I thought it was as you describe. But my experience is that such public calendars are NOT pushed to iOS devices, even if they are stored on the "iCloud" section of iCal on my iMac. Individually shared calendars are pushed nicely, but for me this seems not to be the case of public calendars. To me this seems to be different on iCloud compared to mobileMe

New information: I have a calendar that is shared as a public calendar with my friend. My friend subscribe to that calendar on his iMac, and has saved it "on iCloud". I made som changes to that calendar this tuesday. The changes showed up on my firends iMac instantly, but was not pushed to his iPhone until thursday

When importing you must choose to import it to your ICLOUD account. You may need to create a new empty calendar in iCloud in advance and then choose this calendar to import to.

Julian, How, exactly, does one "import" a calendar to one's iCloud account? Considering that there is no menu and no buttons, it seems that you know something I don't know. No problem creating an empty calendar in iCloud, but I do not see how to import a calendar. 😕

V.B., Glad you got a public calendar to share with a friend and update properly, but this thread is about subscribed calendars i.e., birthdays or holidays, etc. I think public and subscribed are two different types of calendars, correct me if I'm wrong, please.

1) In iCal click Calendars at the top-left and highlighted the SUBSCRIPTIONS calendar you want to use

2) Go to File > Export... > Export and choose somewhere convenient to save it

3) In iCal go to File > New Calendar > iCloud and give the new calendar an approprate name

4) Go to File > Import > Import and choose the calendar you saved in Step 1

5) From the Adding New Events dialog choose the calendar name under the iCloud heading

6) Calendar will appear in iCal and shortly afterward at icloud.com

Wow, you've shown me what I was looking for and no one else could deliver! Generally, I can figure things out pretty well, but this one had me stumped. I very much appreciate your time to write out these steps. It works!! 😁

pammylu:

I would be happy if you could explain the differnece between a subscribed calendar and a calendar shared as a public calendar.

If i create a calendar on iCloud, choose to share it as a calendar everyone can see and email a link to friends with the URL, my friends are asked if they want to subscribe to that calendar. What is the difference between this and what you call a "subscribed" calendar?

I will preface this with a statement: I am not an expert, so I could be wrong, but I am trying to learn how to use iCloud for the best functionality. Here is how I have come to understand the difference in these calendars.

Generally speaking, I think of a subscribed calendar as a static calendar created for downloading by the public-at-large, for example, US Holidays, Jewish Holidays, Seasons/Equinox, Lunar Phases, High Tides, etc. These calendars don't change or add appts or events, they simply are a reference to dates that occur at a given continuum of dates.

The opposite is a shared calendar, which is usually created by an individual or organization who chooses to share dynamic information with 1 or more people via invitation to URL, for example, South School PTSA, Ashville Ham Radio Club, Suzie's Craft Classes, City Orchestra Concerts. Usually, these calendars are used for events, meetings, appts, that are often added/deleted/changed by the creator for the audience to keep current. Further, they can also choose to share them with an open public audience, but the difference between this sharing and a subscribed calendar is that a shared calendar is managed dynamically by someone to keep events/appts current as they may change.

The frustration that people have been experiencing is getting the subscribed calendars that they find in the public domain to download into iCloud.

This might also help a little bit, too... http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cal/cal/cal_sharesub1.html