Sync Google Calendar to Your iPhone
“J” asked how you would sync your Google calendar to your iPhone. Well, one way would be to simply use Google Calendar directly with their iPhone interface. But, if you want your Google calendar events to show up in the native iPhone calendar app, then you simply need to subscribe to your Google calendar via your Mac’s iCal application. Do this by going into Google Calendar, managing your calendars, sharing them publicly, and then grabbing the iCal link in the Calendar Details page. Paste that into iCal. Then your iCal application will read from Google calendar, and your iPhone syncs with that.
Unfortunately, there is no way to reverse the process, so new items added via your iPhone will never make it to Google Calendar. And, don’t even ask me how to do this in Windows. No idea.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I’m using SyncMyCal on Windows to synchronize my Google Calendar with Outlook, which then automatically syncs with my iPhone. There’s a free version and a $25 version with more features. I’m using the free version, which does everything I want, and it works great.
http://www.syncmycal.com
October 4th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Google calender allows you to post events via SMS so you can just text message a new event to google, subscribe to your google calendar in iCal, and sync back to your iPhone. Once you figure out the setup, it’s easy.
October 4th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Spanning Sync does both directions between Google Calendar and iCal. I’ve been using it for months and it does a great job keeping the Google Calendar the same as my iPhone.
October 7th, 2007 at 12:36 am
I second Tubby’s suggestion! I lplove spanning sync!
October 7th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
another one I use is Gcaldaemon which also does both ways
July 9th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Once the 2.0 iPhone firmware is released you can use Nuevasync. No software needed on the device. http://www.nuevasync.com