How sync iPhone Calendar back to Google calendar?

Csound1 wrote:

Stop putting events on the iCloud calendar and start putting them on the Google calendar, they are separate calendars.

I would also make Google the default calendar on all of your devices.

I don't understand. On the iPhone, I use the built-in Calendar app (from Apple), not the Google calendar in the iPhone's Safari.

I don't know what you mean to make Google the default calendar on "your devices".

Clearly my iPhone Calendar app and Mac OS X Calendar app can get events entered into Google calendar (from a browser on the Mac). What I'm asking is how to reverse that process so that events added to the iPhone Calendar app or (equivalently, via the iCloud syncing) the Mac OS X Calendar app can be made to appear in Google calendar when I view it in a browser.

Csound1 wrote:

Your phone has at least 3 calendars, Google, iCloud and the local calendar (which is named On My Phone). You are probably looking at All Calendars, which, as it name suggests shows all calendars combined into one view, this is the same on your Mac. (On My Mac)

If you have not chosen Google as the default calendar you have no idea which calendar new events are placed on.

Stop looking at All Calendars when you actually want to look at the Google Calendar and make the Google calendar the default for new events.

In answer to your question:

To change what you look at

Mac: In Calendar, top left, Press calendars and turn off all but Google

IOS: The same as on the Mac

Mac: Calendar>General>Set Default Calendar

IOS: Settings>Mail Contacts and Calendars>Set Default Calendar

In iOS, Calendars lists several categories:

• Exchange - I have a calendar checked there, probably from Google Calendar connection made a long time ago
• Gmail - I have checked All Gmail, Contacts birthdays and..., and one with my Gmail address.
• iCloud - I have checked All iCloud, along with Calendar, Home, Work.

Now exactly what do you mean by "turn off all bug Google"??

On Mac, Mail Contacts & Calendars Prefernces, I have 3 accounts: icloud, Gmail, and another one used strictly for e-mail of a specific category. But I don't see any place do make anything a Default Calendar.

Also on Mac, Calendar app's Preferences > Accounts: I have iCloud and Gmail. I don't see any place to Set Default Calendar.

So what do you mean by "Calendar>General>Set Default Calendar"

Csound1 wrote:

Perhaps you should go to an Apple Store and ask them to do it for you, this is not complex but you are making it so.

murrayE wrote:

In iOS, Calendars lists several categories:

• Exchange - I have a calendar checked there, probably from Google Calendar connection made a long time ago
• Gmail - I have checked All Gmail, Contacts birthdays and..., and one with my Gmail address.
• iCloud - I have checked All iCloud, along with Calendar, Home, Work.

They are your accounts, they are not categories, each one is independent.

Now exactly what do you mean by "turn off all bug Google"??

I said but, not bug, and I mean turn off (uncheck) the viewing all calendars, except for the Google calendars.

On Mac, Mail Contacts & Calendars Prefernces, I have 3 accounts: icloud, Gmail, and another one used strictly for e-mail of a specific category. But I don't see any place do make anything a Default Calendar

You do that (as I said) on your IOS device, it is important to read what I say carefully. On your iThing, under Mail Contacts and Calendars is a selection for choosing a default calendar, choose Google.

Also on Mac, Calendar app's Preferences > Accounts: I have iCloud and Gmail. I don't see any place to Set Default Calendar.

That is because there isn't one, please read what I said again

Sorry, I did read, carefully, again, what you said!

iOS end: I suppose that when you said "turn off all but Google" [sorry for the typo!], you meant "turn off all but Gmail" -- for "Gmail" is how it's listed, not "Google". Assuming that's what you meant, I just did that.

And finally way down on the iOS Mail Contacts and Calendars page in Settings, I did finally find a Default Calendar setting, where I have now checked the one listed under Gmail. That was my fault: I had not scrolled down far enough there before.

And now that I've clarified that "Google" really means "Gmail", on the Mac's Calendar app, from the Calendars button I unchecked all except the Gmail calendar.

I'll report back if this fixes the problem.

Thank you for your patience. But I assure you I'm truly capable of following very complex procedures and even exploring and probing with software!

I now have just the "Gmail" calendar on both iPhone and Mac. But still, events added on the iPhone Apple Calendar or the Mac Apple Calendar app are not showing up in my Google calendar in a browser on the Mac.

Which is the issue I raised when I started this thread!

Csound1 wrote:

What calendar is the default calendar on your iPhone,

Forget it, let's simplify.

Use your Mac only, open Safari and go to your Gmail calendar on the website, then open the calendar app on the Mac so you may see what happens.

1. Put a test event on the calendar on the Gmail website, it should appear in Calendar on the Mac within a few minutes, post back when it does, or if it does not.

I'm going to want to see screenshots of settings from now on, if you don't know how to take and post them please ask.

An event put on my Gmail calendar at the Google web site already does get synced to my iPhone Apple Calendar app. That was never the problem.

As I orignally posted, the problem was in the other direction: getting an event that I add to the iPhone Apple Calendar synced to the Gmail calendar at the Google web site. That's what is still not working, despite pruning down all the extra accounts.

What settings do you want to see? (If on the iPhone, I can try to take a photo of that from my iMac, although I don't know how good that will be.)

Csound1 wrote:

murrayE wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

What calendar is the default calendar on your iPhone,

Forget it, let's simplify.

Use your Mac only, open Safari and go to your Gmail calendar on the website, then open the calendar app on the Mac so you may see what happens.

1. Put a test event on the calendar on the Gmail website, it should appear in Calendar on the Mac within a few minutes, post back when it does, or if it does not.

I'm going to want to see screenshots of settings from now on, if you don't know how to take and post them please ask.

An event put on my Gmail calendar at the Google web site already does get synced to my iPhone Apple Calendar app. That was never the problem.

And that was not the question, I am trying to establish what is what, it's a process, you still have not told me what are the default settings, If you wish to continue doing it your way feel free to, this is not easy when you do not answer my questions or perform the steps I need to establish what is going on.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were trying to do now. (I DO understand troubleshooting, especially as I am a beta-tester for various programs and have been over the years.)

I just added an event on the Gmail calendar at www.google.com/calendar, and it synced almost immediately to my Mac's Calendar app:

Here are some settings on the Mac:

(The redacted 3rd mail account is one that does not have any such thing as calendars -- just purely an email account.)