Importing .ics calendar events from emails

This worked for me. It is a bit fiddly especially step 1. The only way I could get past step 1 after Tap instead of press/hold was a re-boot of the phone. The icon for file transfer/send would not appear after a Tap even if a press/hold was used.

1. Open the ics file using press/hold.
2. If you utilize tap instead of press/hold re-boot the phone and repeat with press/hold.
3. The icon for file transfer/send will be visible in the lower left corner.
4. Tap the icon for the file transfer/send. The choices the choices appear in a box.
5. Tap the icon "add to iCloud Drive" (lower left side of box).
6. The ics file is saved on the Cloud Drive.
7. Open iCalendar and Tap "Calendar" middle bottom of the screen.
8. Make certain the iCloud calendar is selected for inclusion in your iCalendar app.
9. Tap Done
10. All of the ics file calendar entries should appear in the iCalendar App.

Just had a call with apple support which told me this a "new feature" that apple have introduced in release 10.x to prevent another issue of people having duplicate events when using the "add all" too often or if those meetings were already in their calendar. I'm being told they read those forums. So I encourage you to ask for at least a way to have this behavior being changed or configurable. Ask using this forum and calling support.

Apple needs to provide a way to add multiple .ics events to the calendar without having to add them one at a time. The "add all" feature seemed to work fine. The user can always delete their calendar first, then use "add all" to restore events without duplicating them.

Please hurry and restore this old capability. Thanks.

It's kind of a pain, but Apple forgot to disable the add all feature from safari. If you upload your ics file to the web and browse to it via Safari, you can easily add all events. See my screenshots above.

Hi,

with my iOs 10.2.1 the workaround with Safari does not work... but using the app Week Cal, I could import my *.ics-file with >700 entires. It directly imported all entries, no option to choose single ones.

@divereg

What do you mean with "... the workaround with Safari does not work"?
Does the "Add All" not show up in Safari?

Or what exactly doesn't work?

Besides this, does the App Week Cal put the events into the regular iOS calendar, or is Week Cal in stand alone calendar without any exchange to the iOS calendar?

APPLE!!! Please fix this issue and make it work like the old days. "Add all" is a must for people like me who rely on ics files for my work schedule.

Apple clearly failed with the iOS mail app…but safari still has an add all feature. Just upload your calendar to the web and browse to the file.

I've run into the same problem. I tested this by creating an ICS file w/ Calendar (version 8) on my Mac OS X (el capitan 10.11.6) then sent it to myself.

Using the default mail program, I can see the file but can't add them all at once. Is there another way we're supposed to do this now?

So, what's the solution? This is a pain. They events can be added manually, but I have 50+ events and it's multiple painful steps to add them one at a time and get them to the right calendar. Got to be an oversight on Apple's part, they need to add this feature back in or come up with a work-around.

Apple have told me that they are aware of this issue and that it will be fixed in a future update, but they couldn't tell me if this would be in update 10.0.3 or not.

I found a workaround but you need a macbook.

Method I used:

1 On Macbook deleted the calendar

2 Created a new one (same name and colour)

3 opened mail and clicked the attachement

4 got a dialogbox indicating the ics contains new items

5 choose the newly created calendar to import to

6 Checked the calendar, all items were correctly imported.

But I'd rather have the add all items option again! Enables you to import directly on your iPhone.

i am having the same issue . any progress on this

Have same issue with IOS 10.2 (iphone).

Looks like Apple is not very good at fixing that problem

Right ... this is a MUST!
But like always w/ Apple ... no communication / information.

Apple should either restore the feature or make it an option in the settings.