How to share iCloud calendars on iPhone

In the Calendar app, you can share an iCloud calendar with other iCloud users. When you share a calendar, others can see it, and you can let them add or change events. You can also share a read-only version that anyone can view but not change.

You can change a person’s access to a shared calendar, and turn off notifications for shared calendars.

Here’s how to share iCloud calendars on iPhone.

Create an iCloud calendar

1. Start the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Calendars button.
3. Tap Add Calendar.
4. Tap Add Calendar, enter a name for the new calendar, and tap the Done button.

If iCloud isn’t your default calendar, tap Accounts, then tap iCloud.

Share an iCloud calendar

Share a calendar in iCloud with one or more people, and each person you invite receives an invitation to join it.

1. Start the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Calendars button.
3. Tap the Info button next to the iCloud calendar you want to share.
4. Tap Add Person and enter a name or email address, or tap the Add button to browse your contacts.

Note: To share an iCloud calendar with your contacts, they need an email address.

Tap the Done button.

Change a person’s access to a shared calendar

After you invite someone to share your calendar, you can turn their ability to edit the calendar on or off, or stop sharing the calendar with them entirely.

1. Start the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Calendars button and tap the Info button next to the shared calendar. Tap the person’s name.
3. Do any of the following:
   • Turn Allow Editing on or off.
   • Tap Delete.

Turn off notifications for shared calendars

When someone modifies a calendar you’re sharing, you get notified of the change. You can turn off those notifications if you don’t want them.

1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Notifications and tap Calendar.
3. Tap Customize Notifications, then turn off Shared Calendar Changes.

Share a read-only calendar with anyone

1. Start the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Calendars button then tap the Info button next to the iCloud calendar you want to share.
3. Turn on Public Calendar. Then tap Share Link to copy or send the URL for your calendar.
4. Choose a method for sending the URL—Messages, Mail, and so on.

Anyone you send the URL to can subscribe to the calendar in a compatible app, like Calendar for macOS.

Delete a calendar

1. Start the Calendar app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Calendars button.
3. Tap the Info button next to the iCloud calendar you want to delete.
4. Tap Delete Calendar at the bottom of the list.