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Hi all,
I use a Windows laptop, Android phone, and Google calendar on both. My girlfriend uses an Apple phone and laptop, and Apple calendar on both.
We would like to have a shared calendar, which appears on all our devices, and we can both edit (and these edits appear on all other devices).
Done a bit of googling but most results seem to be for if I have two calendars myself that I want to sync.
Thanks,
Duane.
Apple stuff can connect to Google accounts, so if you create a calendar that she has access to then it will appear in the Apple calendar.
As Ross says, create a Google calendar, share it with your girlfriend, add it to whichever devices you want and off you go.
We have multiple calendars running this way for work.
Yep our family is run from four Google Calendars (one for me, one for the wife, one for the kids and one for other stuff). We can access these from the built-in Calendar app on our iPhones and iPads or from any web browser.
Works very well.
When I share a google calendar with her, I assume I need to send it to her icloud email, for it to show up on her ical? Otherwise I have to share it to her gmail account, so it shows up on her google cal (which she doesn't use), and then sync her google cal with her ical...
I researched this at length a few years back when I wanted to do exactly what you describe. I looked at all manner of solutions, and Google turned out to be the key.
I set up two calendars on my G account, a personal one which has all my work stuff in it (and syncs with Outlook), and a shared one. On the shared calendar I gave read/write access to my partner's gmail account, she opened it in her Gcal then synced her iPhone with it from there. IIRC at the time we'd to do something clever to get the fruity side of things to work, but these days it's natively supported I think.
So, basically what you've said with "otherwise" there. It shouldn't matter that she doesn't use her Google calendar, it's just acting as a middleware layer.
When I share a google calendar with her, I assume I need to send it to her icloud email, for it to show up on her ical?
Huh?
No, you should just be able to add your Google account to the iPhone/iPad and set it to sync what you want (just calendar events for me). As described here
Her iOS Calendar should then show all the events from your Google Calendar. When she creates an event in her iOS calendar it will appear in your Google Calendar (if she selects that).