I have subsribed to a Calendar successfully on my iMac, iPhone, and iPad. When I go into "Calendars" to select which ones to view, it is under the iCloud grouping. When I go to icloud.com that particular calendar is not there. Do I need to adjust a setting or subscribe to the calendar again? If so, how?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Subscribed calendars do not appear at icloud.com. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5029
There is no way to make them, except by exporting and re-importing as a standard calendar, and then it will no longer auto-update from its original source.
Subscribed calendars do not appear at icloud.com. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5029
There is no way to make them, except by exporting and re-importing as a standard calendar, and then it will no longer auto-update from its original source.
Update to 2013 post discussion, informational:: It's been a couple of years since anyone asked about subscribed calendars in iCloud.
They're still not supported. Apple implemented Calendar Subscription in iOS using the CalDAV standard (I think). So subscribed calendars are not a part of iCloud calendars, they show up as peers in iOS Settings (like Google or Exchange calendars). So it's not surprising that they don't appear in iCloud.com, it only shows iCloud calendars.
I understand the logic, but calendar subscriptions are very useful. The functionality is part of a full Calendaring solution, and whatever the technical details it's unfortunate that this isn't a part of the web browser UI that is the "Desktop" version of iCloud calendar on ChromeOS and Windows.
I hope Apple makes subscription functionality a part of iCloud. I think that's going to be a big technical change though, so i don't expect to see it before iOS 10 and MacOS 12 (OS X numbering scheme is so hopeless I've switched to MacOS).
jfaughnan wrote:
Update to 2013 post discussion, informational:: It's been a couple of years since anyone asked about subscribed calendars in iCloud.
They're still not supported.
Forgive me for my naivety as I am only trying to understand or learn this, but what you do mean by it's not supported? Do you mean like US Holiday subscriptions don't show up in Calendars in iCloud.com?
I thought I'd answer your question with a simple link, but the world is not that simple. The more I researched Apple's calendaring approach the odder it looks. The terminology doesn't help and large parts of Apple's documentation are outdated. [1]
Briefly, and I think correctly, Apple configured iCloud with 1-2 public calendars that any user can subscribe to, including US Holidays.
They didn't provide (or expose) the ability to subscribe to an arbitrary public calendar, such as the one for our mountain biking team that ends with the suffix .ics.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/highlandmtb%40gmail.com/public/basic.i cs
What's confusing (this is all very confusing) is that both iOS and OS X can subscribe to this URL. In theory (Calendar in Yosemite crashed when I tested) subscriptions in iOS and OS X do synchronize, presumably via iCloud. When you study the iOS configuration, however, these are setup as CalDAV calendars, not iCloud calendars. They don't show up in iCloud.com calendar view.
Practically speaking there are are a lot of public Google Calendars in the world, often for high school sports. These can't be seen on iCloud.com. In addition to this missing feature there's a bug. The above link is supposed to add the calendar as a CalDAV calendar to iOS; it doesn't actually work.
[1]
iCloud: Calendar sharing overview
iCloud: Share a calendar with others
http://www.imore.com/how-publicly-share-calendar-your-iphone-and-ipad
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/three-methods-for-sharing-an-icloud-calendar/
You are right. I tried to add that calendar and it gave me errors and then asked if 'Core Agent' can gain access to my calendars. I ended up denying it access. Personally I use Google Calendar for all of my needs and use it via the Calendar app on my iPhone. I just think that iCloud calendar and mail are behind the times and are updated at a glacial pace hence my reason for using Google Calendar. However I do see your point with the apparent bugs which is very interesting to say the least.
I ended up turning this into a blog post: http://tech.kateva.org/2015/12/calendar-sharing-between-google-and.html
Pretty ugly. I will stick with the Google world myself, but now I understand why iPhone users can't seem to use the Google Calendars I share. it's possible, but it's insanely obscure. Let's not even mention webcal. Heck, Apple's own documentation is incorrect.
If that's your blog (and I'm hoping it is), then I sent you an email to discuss this further...
Viewing Subscribed Calendar in iCloud
