Adding iCloud Calendar to Android Device

It’s easy to get stuck in busy schedules, events and deadlines. Your calendar is an essential tool that acts as an assistant to help you keep track of these events. With most of our smartphones containing calendar apps, it is much easier to remember these events from our gadgets.

ICloud Calendar is a personal calendar app for planning and organizing events created by Apple that works on iOS mobile phones and MacOS desktops. It aims to streamline activities by organizing a user’s tasks and appointments in a visually digital and simplistic way.

It allows teammates to share information, schedule meetings and communicate easily. Using iCloud on your Android device is easy and straightforward if you live your life on both Android and iOS.

Methods of accessing iCloud on your Android device

As a phone user, there comes a time when you find yourself using two phones with two different operating systems. iCloud only lets you sync email, contacts, and photos across all of your Apple devices.

1. Access iCloud messaging on Android

You can configure your Gmail app to access your iCloud email by doing the following:

• Log in to your Apple ID page.
• Go to Manage page and search for Security under Application-specific passwords, then click create a password.
• Open Gmail and click on the Menu button.
• Click on the account selection arrow then select Add an account.
• Enter your iCloud email address and password, then click Next.

2. Sync iCloud contacts with Android

Open icloud.com in your browser and sign in. Export contacts by opening contacts and selecting the contacts you want to export. Tap the gear icon and select Export the vCard, then save the VCF file to your device. Then transfer this data to your Android phone using cloud storage or USB.

On your Android, open your contacts. Click on the menu then on Settings then on Import. Find the VCF file and import the contacts.

How to use iCloud for Android devices

Most of Google’s apps are on iOS, but the same cannot be applied to Android devices if you need to access Apple’s services. However, using iCloud on your Android device is easy if you follow these steps:

1. Open your browser.
2. Move towards icloud.com
3. Insert your Apple credentials.
4. Wait while loading for the message Access granted to appear.

You should be able to see the shortcuts to the available iCloud web apps like Photos, Reminders, Notes, and even iPhone Finder.

Sometimes the above process can be hit or miss. Not all Android devices allow this type of process. In some phones, you may not be able to go beyond iCloud.

How to see your iCloud calendar on an Android device

We always suggest that you share your iCloud calendar with your Google calendar. It doesn’t give you full control over every event, but it will provide you with all the basics you need. For example, you will be able to access event descriptions, event times, and event titles.

Unfortunately, at this time, the above operations cannot be done directly from your Android device. For your iCloud calendar to show on your Android smartphone or tablet, you need to manually link it to Google Calendar on the web by following these steps:

1. Go to the iCloud web page.
2. Sign in using your Apple credentials.
3. On the home page, click the Calendar option.
4. Press the Share next to the calendar you want to view from Google Calendar.
5. A pop-up window will appear, choose it Public calendar check box.
6. Under the URL, tap the Copy link option.
7. Open Google Calendar then click on the plus sign.
8. Press the URL option.
9. Paste the calendar URL in step 6.
10. Press the ADD A CALENDAR link at the bottom right.

After that, you should be able to get a read-only version in your Google Calendar of your iCloud calendar events. The read-only version means you can’t change your event calendar unless you’re using your Apple device or the iCloud webpage.

It’s really important to be aware that if someone has the URL for your iCloud Calendar, they’ll be able to see the content displayed on the page. So be careful when putting private or sensitive information on it.

Features of iCloud Calendar

• Allows notification of upcoming events. This is done either by e-mail, pager, short message service (SMS) or displayed on the screen.
• Allows sharing and synchronization with other devices.
• Allows tracking of events and appointments by a team at the same time.
• Has multiple calendar views, i.e. work calendars, home calendars, etc.
• Allows to subscribe to other calendars so that users can follow their friends and watch various programs i.e. TV shows.

Set up iCloud calendar on Android

With two-way sync, you can set up your iCloud calendar on your Android. By signing up for SyncGene (a free web sync app), you will keep your appointments and events tidy and up to date.

All changes made will be automatically updated on your connected accounts. You can do this by syncing iCloud calendar with Android by following the following simple steps:

1. Open SyncGene and register.
2. Click on the Add an account tongue.
3. Click on iCloud and sign in to your account.
4. Press on Add an account and log into your Android account.
5. Click it Filters tongue.
6. Select the Calendar synchronization and check the folders you want to sync.
7. Press on to save and the Synchronize everything.

Fortunately, you will be notified when your iCloud calendar syncs with your Android device. Events in your calendar can then be managed from your Android device or iCloud Calendar.

Conclusion

Apple’s services are never easily accessible on Android devices. Sometimes the process is roughly characterized by a long process to load. It mainly depends on your version of Android. Web apps like SyncGene have been developed to help you sync iCloud calendar events from your iPhone to your Android device. Now, you don’t have to worry about having difficulty loading data or even being able to access it.