Comments on: Sync Facebook Events with your iPhone calendar

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:29:02 +0000

Hi Ed!

I haven’t looked into the Facebook calendar event sync recently, but I’m glad my post was helpful.

To answer your first question, I believe that Facebook events that appear as “New Event” are events that were set to “Private” by the event creator.

I subscribe to my Facebook calendar directly within iOS (the “Alternate Method” I refer to in my post). When I do this, all events show up with the correct titles, whether or not they are private. However, in Google Calendar, private events show up as “busy”, and if I sync that Google calendar to my phone, it appears as “New Event”. I’m not sure why this is the case. You might want to try the “alternate method” yourself and see if that helps.

To answer your second question, I don’t believe it’s possible to delete the Facebook events from your calendar. However, if you RSVP as “Not attending”, the event will disappear.

As for your third question, it does take some time for events to appear. Perhaps you just didn’t wait long enough! I’ve found Facebook’s calendar feed to be a bit flaky occasionally, so you might try again later.

Hope this helps!

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:19:14 +0000

Sorry, but a final problem I’ve encountered…

(3) New Facebook events are not always showing up on my calendar. One event I was invited to did successfully show up once I RSVPed, but another one has not (the latter one I had my wife create to test the functionality of syncing, and that one did not show up, while a “real” event that I was invited to has shown up). Why might this be?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:57:57 +0000

I’ve managed, after several days of work, to get this working! Thanks for the detailed instructions. However, I’ve noticed two things…

(1) Sometimes my Facebook events do not show up with the proper title. Instead, they show up on my phone as “New Event” even though they have a proper title on Facebook. This does not always happen, only sometimes. However, my iPhone does not seem to allow me to edit the name of the event even on my phone because it is “Read Only.” Is there a way to fix this?

(2) My iPhone is also not letting me delete events after they have been synced if the event comes from my Facebook calendar (I’m guessing that this is also because it is “Read Only”?). Is there a way around this?

Thanks!

By: hossein

hossein — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:42 +0000

thanks

By: pardeep

pardeep — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:24:45 +0000

I just did it with my normal iphone calendar.. and it works perfectly thank you for the advice:)

By: Gravitas

Gravitas — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:25:09 +0000

Nice, this works!

By: Erwan

Erwan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:10:35 +0000

or, you can use an iPhone we developped:
events2cal.com is the landing page,
“Who does what” is the app’s name in iTunes.

what it does: By default, sync all your Facebook events (RSVP=Yes only) to iCal.
In Option: Sync your friends Facebook’s events to your iCal (hence the name “Who does what”).

I developped this app for myself because the way you do it with “export” in FB is too tedious for me.

then i figured i would sell it on apple Store…

Cheers
Erwan

By: Montana

Montana — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:49:58 +0000

The export link is back.

By: Serge

Serge — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:51:51 +0000

with the facebook update, there is no longer an export link.
you need to download the facebook app called fbCal.
once you set it all up (make sure to select your timezone!) click on “add to google calendar” and copy that link, email it to yourself and add it to the subscribed calendars on your iphone.
The app provides you with a birthday link as well.

Works like a charm

-Serge

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:24:54 +0000

FB no longer has an export events link to grab the iCal address. Very sad. Someone should make them bring it back.