Subscription Calendars Arrive to MobileMe/iPhone 3.0

 

Finally, you can have subscription calendars sync with your iPhone/iTouch using OS 3.0 and MobileMe.

  1. Open iCal
  2. In the Calendar list, under Subscriptions, Control-click (or right-click) the calendar you want to copy to your iPhone or iPod touch
  3. In the menu that appears, select “Copy URL to Clipboard”
  4. Compose an email message to yourself (to an email address you are checking on your iPhone/iPod touch), and paste the URL into the body of the message
  5. Send the email
  6. On your iPhone or iPod touch, open the email and tap on the URL
  7. Tap “subscribe” in the dialog that is triggered by the link

For more information, visit the knowledge base article from Apple.

June 17, 2009 7:06 pm Add a comment
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Comments (7) Leave a Comment
  1. YogY June 18th, 2009 at 07:35 | #1
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    It seems to! sort of. The subscribed calendars from my work do not work. Get the message “Cannot Subscribe” the url starts with webcal:// and works on all my mac computers (2 macbooks and an iMac) on different types of network. Anyone else have this problem? anyone fix it?

    YogY

  2. Matt June 18th, 2009 at 08:03 | #2
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    @YogY

    Not too surprising since the service just launched.

    I added 3 calendars, the DVD releases and Movie releases (theater) added just fine. The third, the US Holidays calendar, never seemed to add. So I copied the link from the email and went into Settings -> Mail/Contact/Calendars -> Add Account -> Subscribed Calendar and pasted it there and it added it just fine.

    However, I restarted my phone anyway and turns out all the times I had clicked on the link for US Holidays, it had added but not shown up in iCal on the phone. So then I had to delete a bunch of calendars.

    Completely different question, but do you have two sets of calendars on your phone? I have one set under “From My Mac” and then the same thing again from “MobileMe”. Terribly irritating, although I don’t think I have duplicate entries, just duplicate calendars now.

  3. Tao June 25th, 2009 at 15:06 | #3
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    Hi. It works Ok to me, but the calendar do not refresh the new information… When I write down a new event, can’t see it in mi iPhone. Either can’t see the subscrpition in my account .me

  4. Matt June 25th, 2009 at 15:33 | #4
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    @Tao

    I’m not sure that all the kinks are worked out of the service yet. And I would love to be able to log into me.com and see my subscribed calendars there. However, for right now I’m just glad that they work on my iPhone.

  5. Aaron June 27th, 2009 at 13:24 | #5
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    To stop the “On My Mac” and “On MobileMe” calendars, disable contacts/calendar syncing in iTunes and let MobileMe do it all for you.

  6. Matt June 30th, 2009 at 07:39 | #6
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    @Aaron

    Thanks for the tip. I had tried that without success, but I’ve since switched iPhones and don’t have the first generation phone to try that with.

  7. Tab August 25th, 2009 at 21:58 | #7
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    On Calendars, iCal, iPhone, and Mobileme – any prior events that were in April are now gone. Anyway to retain history of events.

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