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Subscribing to calendars

You can subscribe to calendars that use the iCalendar (.ics) format. Many calendar-based services

support calendar subscriptions, including iCloud, Yahoo!, Google, and the iCal application in OS X.

Subscribed calendars are read-only. You can read events from subscribed calendars on iPhone, but

you can’t edit events or create new ones.

Subscribe to a calendar: Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap Add Account. Tap

Other, then tap Add Subscribed Calendar.

You can also subscribe to an iCal (or other .ics) calendar published on the web, by tapping a link

to the calendar.

Importing calendar events from Mail

You can add events to a calendar by importing a calendar le from an email message. You can

import any standard .ics calendar le.

Import events from a calendar le: In Mail, open the message and tap the calendar le.

Calendar accounts and settings

There are several settings in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars that aect Calendar and your

calendar accounts.

Calendar accounts are also used to sync to-do items for Reminders.

Add a CalDAV account: Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, tap Add an Account, then tap

Other. Under Calendars, tap Add CalDAV Account.

These options apply to all of your calendars:

Set the calendar alert tones Go to Settings > Sounds > Calendar Alerts.

Sync past events Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Sync, then choose time period.

Future events are always synced.

Set alerts to sound when you

receive a meeting invitation

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and turn on New Invitation Alerts.

Turn on Calendar time zone

support

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Time Zone Support.

Set a default calendar Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Calendar.

Use iCloud to keep Calendar

up-to-date on your iOS devices

and computers

Go to Settings > iCloud, then turn on Calendar. See “iCloud

” on page 16.

Important: When Time Zone Support is on, Calendar displays event dates and times in the time

zone of the city you selected. When Time Zone Support is o, Calendar displays events in the time

zone of your current location as determined by the network time. Some carriers don’t support

network time in all areas. When you travel, iPhone may not display events or sound alerts at the

correct local time. To manually set the correct time, see “Date & Time” on page 167.

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