After spending weeks looking for a solution as to why Google Calendar refused to sync certain calendars with iOS, it turns out there are a couple of fixes for what is a rather common issue.
Some people find their calendars won’t sync at all, others have trouble getting new events to show up – and I had a peculiar problem whereby only certain shared calendars were appearing. Hopefully by the end of this article, Google Calendar will play nicely with your touchscreen toys.
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First Thing’s First: Visibility
One of the most common reasons your calendars might not be showing up is because you haven’t enabled them in your iOS Calendar app. This might seem like a simple thing to note, but it’s worth checking before you dive in and start changing settings when you don’t really need to.

Open the Settings app and navigate to Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then select your Google account. You want to ensure that the Calendars option is enabled in this menu – if it’s not, you’ve found the culprit (but keep reading, just in case).
Next open the Calendar app and tap the Calendars button at the bottom of the screen. A menu will pop up showing all of the calendars currently being pushed to your device. If you notice certain calendars are not ticked, do so and they will be added to your visible calendar. You can also “pull to refresh” this menu, which forces iOS to look at your Google account for new additions.

If you find that the calendar you want is unticked, you’ve just found your issue – it was syncing all along, it was just hidden. This menu is useful for turning off non-critical Calendars if you have a particularly hectric schedule.
Pushing Google Calendars to iOS
My problem wasn’t a case of the (shared) Google Calendar I wanted not being visible on my device, it flatly refused to show up in the Calendar app at all. This pointed to a problem on Google’s end, but when I checked it from the web everything looked fine. There was no suggestion that my shared calendars weren’t being pushed to my device, and there was no option to seemingly enable it.
Despite trawling the help documentation, I missed one very important link which I ended up finding in the comments section of a long list of articles I trawled to try and resolve the issue. You need to specify which calendars are pushed to your device using Google Calendar Sync Settings, which is oddly absent from the main Google Calendar web interface.

I did this from my desktop browser, and noticed all of the calendars that weren’t appearing on my iPhone or iPad were unchecked. Google recommends you do this from the device itself, but I had no issues doing it from Chrome while logged in to the relevant account. After checking everything, go back to your Calendar app, hit Calendars, pull down to refresh and any absent calendars should show up.
This solved my issue, and it may well solve yours, but there’s always one more step to take.
More Drastic Measures
If you’ve tried both of the techniques mentioned above and your Calendars still aren’t working, it’s time to take more drastic measures. This essentially involves deleting your account under Settings > Mail, Contact, Calendars by tapping the scary red Delete Account button under your Google account settings.

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You can set up a new application-specific password in your Google Account Security Settings – give it a descriptive name and delete the old one while you’re there. After verifying your credentials, your Google Calendar should be pushed to your device (provided you check the Calendars box while setting up).
Did It Work?
If your calendars still aren’t showing up, run through visibility settings and Sync Settings as per above. If they still aren’t there, login to your account from a desktop browser and confirm they exist on the web version. Failing that, there’s always MakeUseOf Answers answers answers Read More .
Have you had problems syncing your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch with Google Calendar? Did this advice help you out? If you have had any success using these or other methods, help out a fellow reader and let us know in the comments, below.
Wow! Thank you so much. I've been looking for a solution for so long, only your article gave me the solution. My problem is that in Google Sync Settings the events were not checked. Thanks again :)
Here's my issue. I use Google calendar for my salon biz and the ONLY reason I haven't switched to an iPhone is because the quickest I can get an iPhone to sync with Google calendar is 15 minutes. The calendar syncs immediately with Android phones. I cannot have this 15 minute lag time as I could make several appointments in a 15 minute time frame which could cause me to double book myself. Does anyone have any advice or is it even possible to make an iPhone sync immediately with Google calendar without the 15 minute sync?
Hi Kelle,
I can't be 100% certain but the best way to achieve this might be using Google's own Calendar app for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-calendar/id909319292?mt=8
They pulled a similar stunt with Gmail, and now the only way to get email through the default iPhone client is using fetch (minimum wait for 15 minutes). You may also be able to enable push if you're a paying Google Apps user, but I'm not entirely sure. Try the app above and let me know if it works for you.
There are alternatives to Google Calendar too: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/time-management-gets-easier-8-google-calendar-alternatives/
Tim
Thanks-- I had to delete the Google account and re-enter it, it worked like a charm. Veru helpful.
I had the same issue as you did, push sync setting! It solved it, ty for sharing !
Worked foe me. Thank you
it worked for me.. Great stuff
OMG.... Mine was the cellular data being Off for Calendar too. WEIRD
I had tried every step in this article and others from another article. Nothing would work. But then I read in the comments that some people had re-started their iphones. This worked for me! Thank you. I just didn't think of the re-start.
Perfect - solved my problem. It was the synch settings. By the way - I couldn't find any way to get to that page from the Google Calendar browser interface - could only get there by using he link you embedded. Very strange. Thank you very much for this.
WOrked! I had to reboot the phone (Iphone 6s) and it showed up.
In my case, it turns out that at some point, the calendar syng with Google from iOS stopped working for email addresses that are not @gmail.com. I had to enable gmail for the account, and then use the new email address for that for the credentials on my iPhone. That worked.
Before I tried that, I tried installing the latest iOS update (to 9.3.2) which did not solve it.
Do any of your Google calendars sync immediately or does it take 15 minutes to show up on your Google calendar when u create an event?
Thanks!
This worked for me...
"You need to specify which calendars are pushed to your device using Google Calendar Sync Settings, which is oddly absent from the main Google Calendar web interface."
The sync settings page worked!!! Thanks so very much for the wonderful instructions. :)
The sync settings page worked for me. Thank you for providing such a thorough write-up. I would also add instructions on setting up your default account on chrome. For me, I am using chrome as three different logins. One of them is the default, so whenever you click the sync settings link it open up the default account, which in my case, was not the correct account... so you need to be able to change the default google account for this link to work.
THANK YOU - The ONLY thing that worked for me was deleting my Gmail account and re-adding it.
After adding google syncing again, I had to restart my iPhone for the Google account section to even show up in the Calendar app.
Thanks!
>>You need to specify which calendars are pushed to your device using Google Calendar Sync Settings, which is oddly absent from the main Google Calendar web interface.
this did the trick!
Apple calendar sync with google but Google doesn't sync with apple
FUN fact; i was struggling with this problem; even after i did all these steps nothing worked' and suddenly i realized cellular data for google calendar was off :) i turned it on; and everything rocked
Thanks for the info Tim! Your "Pushing Google Calendars to iOS" solved the issue for me.
My calendars stopped synchronizing all of the sudden and nothing I did, including deleting the accounts, worked. Using the Google Calendar Sync Settings and turning some calendars off did the trick. I suspect that the act of saving what calendars I wanted reset something on the backend that allowed the sync to start again.
Thank you SOOO much - I had done all of these things and still wasn't seeing all my calendars. Finally deleted the account and re-added (drastic measure!) and it worked! I would have never thought that was what I needed to do. The old "reboot". :) Thank you!
Thanks for prompt response. I deleted the account and then added it back. Don't know what the issue was, but it did the trick. So it goes....
Ah yes, the old "turn it off and back on again" trick. Glad it's working now, thanks for letting us know.
Great advice. I see the account I want to activate in Sync Settings but the check mark is gray and won't click to blue (active). Ideas?
Hmmm that's an odd one, is this a personal Gmail account? If it's a Google Apps account tied to a domain, it could be because the domain administrator has disabled mobile access.
Google calendar sync settings solved it for me. Didn't even know about that setting. A couple of calendars were not ticked to sync. Thanks.
Very Helpful
Thanks!
Yes, the Google sync setting step solved it for me too. Thank you so much.
I tried everything and am so thankful I found this. I did not know about the Google Calendar Sync Settings. The one calendar that would not sync was not even listed because it was not checked. Thank you so much! VERY HELPFUL!
As well as the info above, which was great. Also ensure that the account is added on the device as a google account, not an exchange or other account.
Here's my peculiar find: when creating entries on my iPhone, as I type the location, the iPhone presents matching options for me to select from. So, for instance, if my appointment is in Toledo, i start typing "Toled.." and the iPhone shows "Toledo, OH USA". If I select the iPhone offering and save the appointment, the appointment DOESN'T show up in my Google Calendar on line. However, if I instead just type "Toledo" in the location box and avoid selecting the iPhone offering, it DOES show up in my on line Google calendar.
Thank you for posting this! I was going crazy trying to figure out why one shared calendar wasn't syncing to my phone. Step 3 worked, I check the box, went back into Calendars on my phone, pulled down to force the sync, it worked marvelously.
Genius. Thank you! Sync setting for device was the issue!
Thanks so much! Step 3 took care of my issue - it was a the fact that the calendar was not selected to sync to iPhone.
Followed ALL the steps and still no google calendar...
I had already done all of these things for my calendar and I realized that I did not have my google calendar set as my default calendar, so you may want to go into settings, click mail, contacts, calendars, scroll all the way to the bottom and select default calendar, then choose your google account and it will begin syncing everything you enter from that point on into your google calendar.
This solved the non-syncing issue for me. Thanks, bruh.
Hoping this was going to solve my problem...Google calendar wasn't there for me to choose as my default.
I got to option #4, still having problems, and thought "Of course, I need a new app specific password!" So then I deleted my account from my iPhone, generated a new app specific password and added my account again. Here's the kicker, though... it never asked me for the app specific password. It told me to provide my Google password instead (on a dialog injected by Google). The mail worked, but none of the calendars synced. So now, instead of just missing a few newer calendars, I'm missing all of my calendars (and I probably have around 15). It might be worth mentioning I finally upgraded to iOS 8 a couple of days ago. Does iOS 8's Mail app have a way to circumvent app passwords? If so, why does my Google account say it last used my (now defunct) app password about an hour ago, but has never used the new one I just created. Argh! Thanks for the article, though.
Oops. By option #4, I just meant the "Drastic Measures."
Hi. I have exactly the same problem. Did you find a fix?
Yes and no. I don't recall how, but I got back all the calendars that were already synced. I never got the new ones I was trying to add, though. I just got the Google Calendars app and check that when I need to see the other calendars. Bummer.
Thank you soooooooo much! I was fighting the same battle as you and had been looking for the last year to find a good reason why not all the calendars were showing up in the Calendar app. That link was all it took. It's so great for Google to not publicize that well! Anyway, like you, doing it from my desktop worked fine. I can finally get rid of Calenmob and every other Calendar alternative. Thanks again.
Thank you so much! The ticket for me was uninstalling and reinstalling my Google account on my iPhone. Solved in seconds!
Fantastic, solved a very frustrating problem. The Google Calendar Sync Settings was the ticket for me. Thank you.
YAY! The Google Calendar sync settings worked for me. Thanks for this post.
THANK YOU. The Google syncing issue and the work you did to figure it out solved 1.5 years of me not getting it and downloading other calendar apps! And now I'm the computer genius of the office. ;)
None of these things worked for me with my hosted Gmail domain account. The suggestion to go to https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/calendar/W7QSlI5dGtE worked though. Read Scotts1865 post about setting up your calendar on your iOS device not by checking the Calendar option for your email account, but rather adding a new CalDAV account. I've been searching for this answer for months, and I now finally have it working!
Thank you! This was the most annoying problem and this article helped me fix it in 30 seconds! You rock!
The third option helped! Thank you so much.
Thank you so much! The sync tool did the trick. Very frustrating to look for something that isn't there.
Beautiful! I had to take the more drastic step, but it worked like a charm. Thank you so so much!
Thanks again Tim!! :)
Tim, there is something I considered today....my microsoft account email is my windstream.net email... not my gmail. when I set up this computer, I set up a HP Simple Pass....logged in once with my regular email but now use a four digit pin. Anyway I can change the way the calendar logs me in?
p.s.
since my windstream is one of the accounts on my phone and ipad, this probably explains why when I enter a date on the gmail app, it shows up on the others...but not the other way around (since the app doesn't have access to my gmail)
thank you for your reply,Tim. I have my gmail/google calendar marked as my default calendar on both my ipad and my phone. As I said, new info would sync to the pc app, but former entries did not show up on the pc. But...what I discovered today is that if I open gmail through my browser on my pc (Firefox, btw) and click on the calendar...all of my dates are beautifully synced there. It appears that only the gmail app won't sync the previously-entered dates...the desktop browser/website version does just fine. I just added it to my home page/start pages and will use it that way.... unless.... you have any incite on why the pc app won't function correctly. (again: windows 8.1 OS on my HP Envy touchscreen computer)
Hmm the only thing I can think might help in this case would be if you removed your Google Account from the app and re-added it again. There's a chance that the missing information would be downloaded when you login again... but no guarantee!
I can add new dates to either my phone, my ipad, or my computer, and they will all sync...but what about all the dates already on my ipad ?? I have a new computer (IOS 8.1) and want to use the gmail calendar app...but I don't see why I need to re-enter all the dates. Why don't my already-entered-on-my-ipad dates show up....it's all the same gmail address.
Marie – there's a good chance you have added those events to a different (default) calendar on your device. The best way to remedy this is to edit events not showing up, and change the "Calendar" field to your Google Calendar account. This will push the events to Google Calendar, which will mean the desired info is available on all of your devices.
You will also want to adjust the default calendar on your device, under Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Calendards > Default Calendar.
Hope this helps!
Thanks Tim! Will do!
In trying to do the same to my daughter's 5s, she does not have to choice of a "default" calendar at all! Wonder if you know why?
Hi Marlen,
That is possibly due to the fact that your daughter has only one calendar synced to the device. It's also possible that she's disabled various Calendars, just like you can disable Contact lists and Mailboxes for your various accounts.
Head over to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap on each account. You'll see a set of toggles for Contacts and so on – ensure any of the Calendars you want on the device are switched on under each account.
Tim
This solved my problem. Thanks so much for doing all the legwork and saving the rest of us SOOOOO much time! xo
Hi Tim, thanks so much for your wonderful post!!! Spent my entire afternoon looking for an answer and thank God I found this!!!
Now, it looks like the events I added before I fixed my calendar problem, were added to my iphone only, and are not syncing to my google calendar...they are only visible on my iphone calendar! How do I make those events (many) sync to my google calendar? :(
Hi Marlen,
Glad the article helped you out! As for your events – I believe the only way of doing this would be to edit each event (individually). In the field where it says "Calendar" you will need to specify your Google Calendar.
You'll also want to head to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and scroll right down to the bottom, under "Calendar" change "Default Calendar" to your Google calendar. All future events will (by default unless specified otherwise) be added and subsequently pushed to your Google Calendar.
Hope this helps, it's a shame there's no quicker way.
Tim
Awesome. Thanks so much for the help.
Thank you!! The third tip solved it instantly, very grateful...you are a saint!
You Freaking Rock! A Gentleman & A Scholar, You Are!
Google Calendar Sync Settings worked for me. ;)
Finally able to add a few calendars shared by others. You rock!
Thank you so much!!!! I have been trying for months to figure out why my Google calendar wouldn't sync. I generated an app specific password, and voila!
Fantastic. As many have already commented on, the sync page. WTF. Where on earth would one locate that? Fixed the problem immediately. Cheers
wow, that was invaluable. thank you so much for your info
I followed google.com/calendar/sync select but I have some showing not available for syncing but I can see them when I am on my desktop computer?
Is this for a Google Apps account, like a work email address that uses a URL other than @gmail.com? Or is it personal?
If it's the former you may need to contact the administrator for your Google Apps Domain and let them know you can't get your device to access the calendar. Much of the time it's a permission issue.
Have you tried sharing them from desktop anyway? Did that work?
Did you remove your account from your iPhone and re-add it? Sometimes that works!
Thank you! This resolved my issue. Great article.
Superb! The sync setting was a master-piece information. If you had not given the link we would be searching and still clueless.
Thanks
Really glad it could help you out, somewhat stunned it's still giving so many people issues!
We spent two days trying to sync g calender.
It was the security setting not to allow "less safe applications"
Who would have thought of that...
Thank you so much
Thanks for letting us know, it's probably worth pointing out (for anyone else looking for solutions) that if you're using a Google Apps account (with an @yoururl.com inbox for example) then only the domain administrator can do this.
I had all the settings set up correctly. Had to take the drastic step and delete and re-add my gmail account.
Followup... Well, I guess that didn't work as well as I expected. :-( Missed an appointment today that was only on my iPhone google calendar that never synced with my website google calendar. I give up. Maybe it's time to move to a different calendar. Pissed.
Great! Thank you!
Thank you!!!
I used the sync link to make the calmdar show up a couple days ago and though my problem was solved. Now new events are not showing up. I have reinstalled and tried everything but no luck....
We had this same issue:
Two ios devices syncing to the same account on google. One of them saw the calendars just fine. The others didn't.
Tried the usual suspects:
Deleting and then adding back in the google accounts in settings.
Still no sign of the google calendars in the calendar app.
Here's what fixed it for us: a settings reset. Settings > General > Reset Setting (not settings and data).
Once it rebooted the calendars all showed up right away.
Hope this helps someone.
And the solutions continue to flood in! Thanks for sharing :)
This finally helped me after trying everything else in this thread several times. Thank you so much.
Spent a couple of hours searching for the right answer and I found it on your webpage thank you very much
Very glad the article was able to help you, but rather surprised this is still such an issue - come on Google, sort it out!
A follow-up on my the comment: I believe that the reason I had to delete and re-add my account was because I had previously added my Gmail account by selecting the Exchange option instead of the Google option when identifying what type of account I would be adding. I did this to enable Push for my Gmail account. Apparently it came at the expense of my calendars syncing fully.
Yes and no. Google disabled Google Sync, which was the service that allowed you to use Exchange for Google's email addresses and have proper push email. Everything should have continued working until you removed that account from your iPhone/iPad. If you try and re-add your Gmail as an Exchange account now it will fail.
It's definitely possible that this was to blame, but I personally only experienced the problem after I'd switched from using the push-friendly Exchange method of doing things.
Thanks for letting us know :)
I had to delete my account and reinstall it, but then everything was good. Thank yu for the very detailed article!
Thanks to Scotts 1865, I think a solution has been found for those running goggle apps only. The link is https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/calendar/W7QSlI5dGtE
I've just set it up and mail, calendar & contacts appear to be syncing perfectly. Fingers remain crossed!
Good luck, all, & happy new year :)
Interesting. Using the Exchange method of adding a Google account relies on the outdated Google Sync platform which has been dropped. It's the reason you can't get proper push email on your phone any more... so I'd be very surprised if this worked any more (and if it does work, it probably only works for the Calendar?).
Personally I've had no requirement to do this with a Google Apps account (for this very website), I added it as a Google account and had to select the services to sync using Google's elusive preferences.
I have a problem not descried above. Entries in Google calendar show on my iphone, but new entries created on my iphone don't show up on Google.
Same problem here, and got it resolved like this: the default calendar on my iphone was google exchange and it did not show up on my computer. So (by this point I was very frustrated) I deleted all accounts for mail and calendars on my iphone and then gave those that I actually use. My bad but to this day i do not know what is that google exchange :-s
That's it!!! Fixed. I'm sooooo grateful. Ann
Thank you! I had to go through ALL the steps, but my calendars finally showed up!!!
On my iPhone 6 which I set up as a new device when I got it about a month ago all Google services worked fine until recently when I noticed that neither the changes I did in google.com/contacts nor those in google.com/calendar replicated to the phone. My e-mail however continues to work fine on this device.
I literally tried everything you suggest and now my Google calendars aren't even showing up in the Calendar app anymore, nor are my Google contacts showing up in the Contacts app.
What is this? A nudge to make me use an Android phone perhaps? No way, this will never happen!!!
Anything else I could try?
I have the calen mob app installed in my Iphone 4s that our boss wants us to use at work. It recently began not syncing when I open so no new events show up. I get a message on startup to retry using the correct e-mail and password. I went to settings and re-entered and I get a message that my verification failed. I can log on from my desktop and the calendar works and my Samsung tablet app works as well. Any ideas?
Are you using two-step verification (two factor authentication/2FA) on your Google account? If so you will need to create an application-specific password by logging into your Google account and going to the Security section.
Aside from that it could be something to do with the app itself, by the sounds of it. The advice in the article is for Apple's in-built Calendar app.
Deleted and re-added 3 times, calendars is checked, it is a shared calendar that I have permission to view, I found the hidden sync settings, and they do show up on the Google account from a web browser.
Hmm... I really can't think what else the problem could be.
Might I suggest MakeUseOf Answers?
http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/ask
I did all of these things, still not showing. Halp.
Oh dear, best run through a list of things you have tried!
Have you deleted the account and re-added it? Did you check the Calendars option? Are they shared calendars for which you have permission to view them? Did you find Google's hidden Calendar Sync settings?
Failing this – do the calendars show up in your Google account from a web browser?
Thanks Tim, that Synch Settings page did the trick. Appreciate the time you spent here; saved me my saturday morning. Now back to cartoons.
That's exactly what we like to hear – glad you've got those priorities sorted :)
THANK YOU!!! I couldn't get my calendars to show up either and your information fixed it!!
Hi Sarah, really glad this helped. I'm rather surprised we're still having people looking for solutions to this issue to be honest... it's been five months since we published the article!
Thanks very much - worked a treat, and I didn't know about two-step verification. I did have to reinstall, then turn my phone off/on to finally get the calendar to appear on a restored from back up iphone 5.
I ended up having to delete and re-add my account and it worked! Thank you so much!!!
WOW! that was more than helpful!!!
i had a couple of google contacts that didn't make it to my phone...do you have a similar blog troubleshooting contacts like you do here with calendar?
Hmmm no I personally don't sync Google Contacts because Gmail adds every email address, and allowing it turns my contact list into a rather large mess.
For what it's worth I don't think there's a sync settings page for contacts, and I never saw anything while trawling through docs for this article!
OMG that hidden sync page... just made my year. You're a l?i?f?e? time-management saver!
Glad it was helpful! I too had a small victory moment when it all started working for the first time in months ;)
This was very helpful, and solved my calendar problem. I had to use "more drastic measures" and it did the trick. Thank you!
Thanks for the article. The sync settings was my issue also.
It did not work.
In trying to troubleshoot an issue with duplicate calendar entries I deleted my accounts on an iphone 5c with ios 7.1.1. When re-added the accounts, the email works but, the calendars do not appear anymore when I open the calendar app and tap "calendars". They were all there before.
I have calendars selected for visibility on the iphone and all mailboxes were selected on the sync settings in a Chrome mobile browser window on the phone. I have also powered the phone off and back on again.
Maybe these companies have decided not to play well together anymore.
Hmmm that's odd Ken. I can't really see what else you could try, have you definitely enabled "Calendar" under Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > [Your Google Account]?
You say "all mailboxes were selected" – I wonder if you were on the Calendar sync page or another (hidden and mysterious) Google settings panel.
Just to reiterate, the link is: http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect (login from the affected Google Account)
Failing that... maybe there's a permissions issue? Are these shared Calendars? Are you using a Google Apps account? Is it possible the domain administrator hasn't enabled mobile sync?
It seems there can be a long lag of perhaps days. I gave up after the second day of tinkering with it. It finally appeared when I checked today, 10/15.
FYI it is a standard google account. I believe all your instructions are correct. I have seen a comment on other site that said it can take "awhile" to work. I wouldn't have thought that it could take days though.
Thanks for letting us know Ken, I thought you might have stumbled on another Google Sync issue we'd have to figure out for a bit there!
You are a legend stupid google that sync settings link saved me a lot of bother =]
I'm pretty surprised that this continues to be an issue! I thought Google might have fixed it by now, seeing as there are a few blog posts out there highlighting the issue.
Glad you got it fixed. Come on Google, sort it out!
Thank you! Your link to the hidden sync settings page did it for me.
Thanks to you I found my calender, at last! :-) Thank you, your article were very helpful!
/Elin, Sweden
One other thing to do on the iPhone is consider getting an app from the iTunes store called Calendars 5. I think it is superior to the calendar on the iPhone, was a snap to set up, and has (thusfar in two years) been bullet proof.
We love that app, and it's definitely a good contender if you're a little disappointed by Apple's calendar.
Here's our review: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-for-a-calendar-app-is-calendars-5-really-worth-it/
Thanks much! That sync settings page is what I needed.
Definitely helpful thanks. Yes how do you sync iOS calendars with Google Calendars?
Pretty sure it's two-way, so once it's working (and downloading) your calendar, anything you add from your iPhone/iPad will be pushed to your Google Calendar.
Nice! ..... This was excellent information.
OMG...this sync settings webpage. I was never able to find that either. Thanks so much for that!
Yuuuuup! I simultaneously kicked myself and cursed Google when I found it, glad the article helped you out.
How do you navigate to the sync settings webpage through the calendar website, without using that link?
THANK YOU SO MUCH TIM B.!!! Couldn't find this info ANYWHERE!
My iPad has been wrecked through all the ios8 updates. Apple finally replaced it and now my google or any other calendar will not load. Even Apple can't answer why. It's turned on and set up properly (many times) lol , however when you go into the calendar itself, no calendars show up other than the default birthday, holiday and the iCloud calendar. The account is setting up right because notes and emails work perfectly. Just putting this out there because many times "we" figure out things before they do.
Thank you for any ideas?
Mike
We even tried adding a yahoo calendar.