Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now.
On today's episode let's look at using Goggle Calendar with your Mac and your iOS devices.
So when I get a questions about Goggle Calendar it is usually about how to sync a Goggle Calendar
with an iCloud Calendar which doesn't make any sense.
You see they are both cloud calendars.
You can access both using any of your Mac or iOS devices.
There is no need to sync across from one to the other.
You just use one or the other.
For instance, here I am in the Calendar app on my Mac.
I'm going to go ahead and add a new account.
Now one of the types of accounts I can add is a Goggle account.
Then I enter my Goggle email address, usually a Gmail address, and password and here it
will give me an account summary of the calendar information.
You can see in this case I am adding a calendar so it is not going to give me the option of
adding mail or Notes.
If I were to go to Systems Preferences and add this Goggle account then I could actually
add it as a mail account for the mail app as well as a Notes account for the Notes app.
But in this case I'm just going to stick with it as just a calendar.
Here you can see now I've got it just in my iCloud calendar I've got a Goggle calendar.
If I close it and go back here you can see I had an event I created in this calendar
for lunch today, and you can see it instantly appears here.
Now I'm going to create another event.
So let's create it for tomorrow and let's create a meeting and you will see this will
sync across when I sign up for this calendar in iOS.
So you can see here in iOS I'm going to go in, this is in the Settings app, I'm going
to go to Mail, Contacts, and Calendars and I'm going to add an account here.
I'm going to select a Gmail account and add the same account.
You can see now I've got selections here since I am in the Settings app I can have Mail and
Notes and I'm going to turn those off because I am just going to use this Goggle account
for Calendar here.
Then I'm going to Save.
Once I do that I will be able to, you can see it is added there, so now if I go to the
Calendar app here I can see that under Calendars I've got it listed there as a Gmail calendar
in addition to my other ones.
I can see that I have that lunch for today and also that all day meeting for tomorrow.
So this is very useful for sharing calendar between two of more people.
Say you and your spouse or you and a work group.
You can set up a Goggle account just to hold this calendar and everybody can have the password
to it and have it as one of the accounts they have on their device.
Goggle calendars are outside of Apple's eco system so that means in addition to working
on Macs and on iOS they also work on Android phones, on Windows PC.
Anything that has a client that can take a standard cloud based calendar.
So this is useful for just one person if say you have an Android phone and a Mac.
Or say you have an iPhone and a Windows PC and you want to stick with using calendar
client apps.
If you don't want to use iCloud's web base interface on the device if it doesn't have
a client that can handle iCloud.
So you can use it for that.
Most importantly the thing I'm trying to get across is there is never reason to have to
sync a Goggle calendar with an iCloud calendar.
If you are going to use a Goggle calendar say because you want compatibility to non-Apple
devices then just use the Goggle calendar.
It works great on all Apple devices and there is no reason to use an iCloud calendar.
So you can still use iCloud for email.
You can still have an iCloud calendar that is your own and you can just use a separate
Goggle calendar for things that you need to use that one for.
So I hope you found this useful.
Until next time this is Gary with MacMost Now.