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Synchronizing multiple Google calendars to iPhone
On today's This Week in Google, Gina Trapani presented a tip on how to synchronize your Google Calendar to iCal on a Mac. As it turns out, it is possible to subscribe to sub-calendars, but it's not immediately obvious how to do so. The same holds true on the iPhone.
If you've attempted to synchronize your Google Calendar to your iPhone only to be disappointed that it only allows you to synchronize one calendar, you'll be happy to discover that although it's somewhat hidden, there is a way to synchronize multiple calendars.
Once you configure your iPhone to synchronize with your Google account using your phone's Exchange functionality, you should have your contacts and primary calendar items synchronizing. To then choose what other calendars to display, use the instructions given on this page. They will instruct you to visit m.google.com/sync on your phone, which gives you the option to set some sync settings.
One big frustration with the iPhone's calendar is that though it displays multiple calendars in different colors, it doesn't give you any control over a given calendar's color. With some patience and fiddling, you can use the Google Sync settings described above to enable one calendar at at time and get them set to the color you want. If your primary calendar is the wrong color, it's harder to make it switch, but you can do it by disabling calendar synchronization entirely on the phone, then changing which calendars are synchronized via the Google Sync page, then re-enabling it. It takes trial and error, but with enough patience you can get things set up just as you want, as long as the colors you want consist of red, blue, orange, green, and/or purple.
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Michael Quinn said 9:57AM on 9-07-2009
What a pain in the butt. Just use BusySync to sync any calendars you want between Google Calendar and iCal - then just add them to your iPhone. Well worth it.
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Sune J said 1:21PM on 9-07-2009
It doesn't quite work for me.
When I open http://m.google.com/sync on my iphone I get a message(in danish); "We are sorry, but Google Sync isn't supported by your phone."
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Sune J said 1:31PM on 9-07-2009
Ah, got past that error message by changing language to English instead of Danish.
Sune J said 1:44PM on 9-07-2009
Apparently some of their offered calendars are omitted. The football schedule calendars aren't available for iphone syncing for some reason, while the weather forecast is.
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Peter said 1:56PM on 9-07-2009
The CalDAV approach to get your Google calendars on your iPhone preserves their color:
http://blogs.sun.com/chienr/entry/configuring_caldav_on_iphone_3
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Kyith said 9:40AM on 9-08-2009
I think this is my preferred method of syncing my ipod touch, easy and low maintenance.
thanks for the great tip. http://www.productiveorganizer.com/2009/09/iphone-productivitysync-multiple-calendars-and-contacts-to-iphoneipod-touch/
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