Calendar invites going to Google Calendar instead of Apple Calendar

If you read your gmail in a Google mail client, the invitation will go to your Google Agenda.

If you read your gmail in Apple Mail, the invitation will go to your Apple Calendar.

In my test reading the message contained an ics file as attachment. In Google webmail I downloaded it and opened it which put the event in Apple Calendar.

Did you ever figure this out? I have the exact same problem. It also seems to interfere with people receiving my invites if they are using the google calendar.

I’ll try to bullet point this…

-Like you and others—this is where terminology gets confusing—I have multiple color-coded “calendars” within the Apple Calendar app: Appts; Meetings; Tickets; Zooms; Travel, etc.

-One of those “calendars” is “GMail”, created automatically when I added my Google to Accounts.

-My Gmail account has been my primary email for many years and that’s where invitations are sent.

-When I receive an invite, it automatically goes into that GMail “calendar” within Apple Calendar.

-The Problem: GMail invites cannot be switched to Meetings, Tickets, or whatever is appropriate. My Apple “calendars” do not appear on the drop down menu in the event.

-They cannot be edited, either, if I want to change the title, color, or add travel time.

-In addition, if I manually duplicate the event and delete the original GMail invite one, it sends a “Decline” to the sender—even if I’ve previously accepted it.

-Downloading the ics attachment doesn’t help; the issues are the same.

There should be a way to integrate fully editable GMail invites into the “calendars” in Apple Calendar. That’s what I and others are looking to do.

If you read your gmail in Apple Mail, the invitation will go to your Apple Calendar.

If you read your gmail in Apple Mail, the invitation will go to your Apple Calendar.

In my test reading the message contained an ics file as attachment. In Google webmail I downloaded it and opened it which put the event in Apple Calendar.

That is not entirely true, at least for me.

The gmail invitation/gcal event shows in the Apple Calendar app, but only under the individual gmail calendar and only if that gmail calendar is selected in the Apple Calendar list. This can result in invitations being missed and accepted invitations not showing.

Downloading the .ics file does not help. Neither does duplicating, copying, or forwarding the invite to oneself, without alerting everyone else who's invited. One can only manually copy the info to get the desired result.

What I and it seems others want is to shift that event to one of the non-google calendars set up in Apple Calendar. Does anyone know if there's a setting or workaround for that?

I am having the same problem and it only recently began. Please let me know if anyone resolves this.

What do you exactly mean by "existing icloud calendar". I have 11 calendars for different purposes, work, sport, family things, etc. Some are subscribed, some are shared, most are personal. Because in the Calendar Settings I chose "Currently selected" as the default one (check that out) that's the one selected to host the ics file I open, but on the spot I can select another one. It doesn't try to create a new calendar.

To understand what happens, one has to figure out where the events are stored and who owns them.

The multiple "calendars" within Apple Calendar app are just subdivisions of your events database, stored either on your computer or in your iCloud account.

The Apple Calendar app can also manage events stored in other calendar databases, be they hosted by Google, Microsoft (Outlook) or Yahoo!. But there are limits to what you can do to these events. If you created and own the event, in whichever database, there is no problem editing it in the Calendar app. You can even move it from one database to another (which in fact means deleting it from one database and adding it to another). Each database has its heading in the calendars sidebar, under which are listed its own calendars (subdivisions).

The invitations you receive are special, they are like subscriptions to holiday or sports teams calendars. They belong and are controlled by other parties, and stay in their database, be it managed by Google, Outlook or Yahoo!. That's why you cannot move them to another database. They are not editable in the Calendar app, probably because Google has not provided an application interface to do so. You can edit them online at calendar.google.com though, but then this edited version becomes unique to you while still keeping the invitation link alive. You cannot modify the basic event belonging to someone else, because that would mean that all other people receiving the same invitation would see your changes. If you delete the event, it is assumed that it means you refuse or decline the invitation, which is pretty expected by this action.