Questions tagged [ical]
Apple's calendar application, bundled with every OS X installation. Renamed to "Calendar" in 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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How to stop the calendar from sending emails to everyone?
I have a hotmail account configured in my calendar. Sometimes I receive ICS with events that include me and other participants (their emails). My problem is that if I try to delete the event, the ...
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Mac OS calendar does not tell me about "proposed new time" responses from gmail
I use my MacOS calendar to show me appointments from my various calendars. It stays nicely in sync with my google calendar with one exception: it does not tell me about proposed new time responses to ...
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Show imported Google events as busy in Mac Calendar
We use Mac / calendar / iCloud here at my company for time management. In my personal life, I use google Calendar. So I import my google calendar into my Mac Calendar.
This works great, I can see all ...
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Apple Calendar 'Delete and Don't Notify' sends Email anyway
It seems like Apple Calendar is not honoring the 'Don't Notify' part when deleting a meeting invitation.
Calendar or Mail will sent 'decline' mails anyway when I delete an event even if it is just a '...
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Stop iCalendar from automatically accepting any incoming meeting
For the past two days, I've been struggling with this issue.
Every meeting invite I have received on my company email gets automatically accepted on the native Calendar app and it wasn't like that ...
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No event invites in the iCloud calendar
I'm trying to migrate my custom domain email from Zoho to iCloud+ and everything went smoothly (in terms of mail) until I got stuck with the calendar. I don't get event invites (only notifications in ...
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Is it possible to sync an ICS file with Mac's Calendar?
I am trying to have a ICS that I generate on an hourly basis from third party calendar apps, which I would like to keep in sync with Mac's Calendar.
I haven't found a way to get Calendar to sync with ...
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Privacy settings for Apple events and calendars
Just want to make sure of who can see my Apple Calendar events, on a specific calendar, and Apple calendars in general. If I don't invite anyone to an event, is the default that they are private to me ...
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Cannot accept calendar invitations
I’m an experienced Apple user but I cannot see how to accept a calendar invitation using Calendar on iOS device or on my Mac. In a calendar invite that I received there’s just a question mark next to ...
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Cannot import VTODO to Reminders app on MacOS Ventura 13.1
I'm trying to import an ics file containing only todos (VTODO) to Apple reminders app.
Since the App doesn't provide an option to import todos, I use the calendar app; File > Import > ICS file.
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How to tell is a specific calendar has updated
In previous versions of MacOS, you could tell which calendar was updated as in the ~Library/Calendars folder, each individual calendar had a folder named after the calendar ID, in which every event ...
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Deleting thousands of duplicate events in calendar
So I scheduled a Zoom meeting on my Mac with Ventura installed and opted to add a calendar event. Now this event has spawned more than 8000 duplicate entries in my Apple Calendar, which have also been ...
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How do I get more powerful notifications?
I've developed notification blindness to the little rectangles in the top right of my screen, and it's a real problem for remote work, where my coworkers can't drop by my desk to kidnap me into ...
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Same calendar on iOS and macOS, different alarms?
macOS Catalina, iOS 14.8.1
I've been annoyed for ages by getting alarms for events, when I can check them on my mac (where I do 99% of my calendar management) and the alarms are either non-existent, ...
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Send message (sms) based on calendar event creation
I would like to create some kind of automated notification system. Based on the creation of a calendar event I want an apple script to run, which sends an automated text message with date and time of ...
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Can't delete shared event from mac calendar
5-10 years ago, I had a weekly meeting with a colleague. I'm in Pacific time (California), he was on Australian time (Sydney). We stopped having this meeting after a couple years and it disappeared ...
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Unable to open file with Finder via Apple Script
I have been using an Apple Script that recently stopped working (on macOS 12.4-6). Here is a minimal piece of code:
tell application "Finder"
open "Macintosh HD:Users:me:cal.ics&...
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Accept google calendar invite with iCloud calendar
I use an iCloud calendar account for my private life, via the macOS and iOS Calendar apps, and Fantastical.
Whenever I get an invite from a friend using Google Calendar, I get an email with an invite....
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How to make iCal notifications on the Mac more noticeable?
I often work with an extra monitor plugged into my MacBook Pro. Because iCal alerts for appointments on my primary screen only, I often miss appointments (especially if the sound volume is low). This ...
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Is it possible to host my public apple calendar on my website?
I have a public apple calendar that I'd like to make viewable (read-only) on my website so that visitors can see my schedule. I believe this can be done with a google calendar but I'm not having luck ...
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Avoiding acknowledgement of events from shared iCloud calendar on macOS Calendar?
Is there any way to avoid having to click OK for all events on calendars shared with me (to which I am not actually invited)? I tried checking "Ignore alerts" under the the shared calendar &...
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Automatically add incoming .ics calendar invites to my iCloud calendar
Is there a way for Mail on my Mac to automatically add .ics calendar invites to my iCloud calendar? I am used to Outlook automatically showing calendar invites as tentative in my calendar, but with ...
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How to change default event time in Calendar (iCal) using Big Sur
I would like to change the default event time in ical from one hour to 15 min. Using BigSur 11.2.3. I have tried to enter the following in terminal, and it does not work. Any help appreciated!
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Drag-and-drop multiple events in Calendar
This question is primarily for macOS, but if someone have an answer for iOS (iPhone and iPad) it'd be lovely too.
So, I want to move multiple events at once. I saw here that it's possible by keyboard ...
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Constantly missing my calendar notifications
For the last few months, macOS and iOS have both decided to stop actually alerting me to my meetings with an audible alarm, and I keep on missing meetings as a result. My meetings have alert times set ...
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How can I find the associated event to the notification counter next to a calendar in Apple's Calendar app?
I have the following notification counter in Apple's Calendar app:
What does this "1" on the dark oval stand for? If it refers to an event, how do I find this event? And then how can I get ...
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Sharing an iCloud calendar to other people causes a redirect loop (CalDav - HTTP 301)
A friend of mine shared an iCloud calendar obtaining a WebDav URL, similar to this one:
webcal://p55-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/verylong-token-token-token
For a couple of years, since 2020, it ...
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Importing DAViCal calendar into macOS Calendar app
I installed DAViCal (v.1.1.4) on my Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) server under a subdirectory mydomain.com/davical/ and want to import it into my Calendar App (v11.0 (2855.1.2)) on my macOS 12.1, but I am ...
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Calendar: Receiving Google calendar invites as email, not in iOS calendar app
My girlfriend has a Gmail set up on her iPhone, attached to her AppleID of the same email address. Her Google Calendar is synced with iOS Calendar and works a treat.
The issue is, when she sends me an ...
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Program Automator to set FOCUS (do not disturb/sleeping/work) during scheduled meetings within iCal
I'm looking to somehow have my MacBook go into do not disturb or the new updated "focus" mode upon certain Scheduled events. I've put tag's in the notes of the events that I want to trigger ...
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iCalendar how to block time for multiple calendars
I have multiple Gmail accounts and when I have a meeting in the calendar let's say as an example A, I would like to create a busy event in all the other calendars.
Any idea if this is possible using ...
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View more than a week at a time in Calendar
At one point in the past I learned a command line that allowed Calendar to display more than one week at a time. My preference was 2 weeks as I have a large screen iMac and like to plan out my events ...
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macOS Calendar stuck at "Updating calendars..."
I launched the Mac Calendar app, only to see no calendars or events.
I quit the app, but on restart it now shows "Updating calendars..." and a never-ending progress bar...
Quitting the app ...
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How can I change the order of accounts in the iOS Calendar app?
I have an iCloud and Gmail account set up in the Calendar app on iOS. The Gmail account is shown at the top, but I would prefer to have it below the iCloud account.
Is there any way to change the ...
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Monterey: remove the word "urgent" from Calendar notifications?
After upgrading to Monterey I get notifications of events that are about to start with an "URGENT" banner in the alert box.
Is there any way to not have that word?
It may seem like nothing, ...
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How to set a multiple alert/reminder for the same calendar event?
Using Calendar.app I can add an event and then add an alert to it, and set when the alert should be. But I only seem to be able to add one alert per event.
How can I give myself a repeating reminder ...
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Is there a method to edit the "start time" of a calendar event without the "end time" changing automatically?
Running Big Sur but this has been happening for many versions of macOS.
Is there a setting/preference somewhere to change this behavior?
There doesn't seem to be an option inside com.apple.iCal.plist. ...
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iCalendar (.ics) attachment can't be added in Gmail app to Apple Calendar
.ics attached can be viewed in Gmail app, but there are no button to add it to Apple Calendar.
Gmail image:
In Mail app the window looks same but has buttons to add the event:
Also there is no ...
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Cannot find files for `calcurse` calendar application installed with homebrew : not where documentation says they are
I just installed calcurse, an calendar open source solution (which looks great!). I installed version calcurse version 4.7.1 via homebrew (brew install calcurse)
I cannot find where the todo and apts ...
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Automatic Teams meeting invites with Apple Calendar
I really don’t get on with Outlook, and have configured Apple Mail and Calendar to access my company’s Exchange account. This works perfectly apart from one thing: Outlook (or Teams) will ...
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Why does invitations sent from Apple software to users with GMail- or Hotmail-based Apple ID:s get mangled?
Problem: I have two friends that regularly send me calendar invitations. When these invitations arrive, the from-address is changed to [email protected]. Confirming these invitations doesn't ...
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Does iPhone 2020 SE support Google Calendar at all?
I have added shared Google Calendar's calendar to my iPhone 2020 SE's native calendar. And here is the story:
At 9 am my boss added a meeting for 4 pm
At 10 am I reviewed my daily tasks and I saw ...
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How to debug MacOS/iOS calendars discovery process
I'm putting together a Caldav server and both iOS 14 and MacOS Catalina seem to be ignoring the XML responses and then both continuing to try different URLs until giving up.
I've posted details here:
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Show Apple Contacts Birthdays in Google Calendar
I have all my contacts on my iPhone including birthdays. Recently I switched to Google Calendar because of workplace requirements.
Unfortunately, I can't find a way to display the birthdays from my ...
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Subscribed calendars not shown on my device, but they can be opened manually [iOS 14.4.2]
I am trying to write a PHP service to make calendars from some data. Anyway, the example it returns (it is static during the test) shows up normally when trying to get it by http://my_domain.com/ics....
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How to automatically import Google Calendar events into an iCloud calendar?
I have a Google Calendar from a work account, and I have my personal iCloud calendar that I share as a read-only calendar with a few people. I'd like the events from the Google Calendar to show up (...
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Do I need to keep Calendar app open in order to be notified about calendar events
I think this question can be very trivial, but for some reason it seems extremely difficult to find a clear and explicit answer to this.
If I close the Calendar app (by selecting "Quit") and ...
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Mac Calendar App not Syncing Google Calendar
I have removed the account from my computer. I have cleared the Calendar cache multiple times. I have refreshed my Calendar. I have made sure that calendar syncing is active on the Google side of ...
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Show telephone symbol in Calendar when using arbitrary video conferencing tools
Due to the current situation I'm using a lot of video conferencing software to meet with other people.
I organise my daily schedule using Apple Calendar Version 11.0 and noticed that when I'm using a ...
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How do I Employ CJK's AppleScript "makeASDate" Handler Without Error?
I am attempting to employ the makeASDate handler shared by user CJK (which I lifted from his answer at Apple Script: Can’t get date of "2018-12-12 10:00 AM") in order to set up some calendar ...
