Forum Discussion
regarding the state of shared calendars on mobile devices
Antony Taylor wrote:
Hi Sourabh,
I initially wanted to use a Shared Mailbox or Resource mailbox for this task but it is specifically the viewing and adding of entries to the calendar on Mobile devices (Specifically iPhone in this case)
Hi Anthony,
I think I mis inderstood you. I tried it with the calendar from my account. And I tried to add en new Calendar to my account and shared it with someone else.
With those two options the other person can add the calendar to his shared calendars and the calendar is vissible on his phone in the dedicated mail app.
I never tried it with a calendar for a resource.
Maurits
Thank you for trying though! It still sounds like it is an improvement and in the worst case scenario I can still use a "Personal" calendar shared to multiple people as the solution for "Shared calendar in default iOS Calendar App"
I take it using a group/group calendar and the IOS/Android/Windows groups app is no good for you?
- Hi Peter,
I wish it was. I really do. Navigating around the problem and just using the new funky Group tools available is in my mind the way to solve this issue. The problem is not the fact that I could do this, The problem is that one particular high level end user would not find this acceptable as they would struggle against learning a new way to access something.
In their minds "G Suite handles this requirement (Shared Calendar shared between multiple people available on Mobile) fine. Why can't Microsoft?"Ahh yes the good old user pushback. I'm sure shared calendar is coming to the Outlook app on IOS & Android very soon, I can't see an easy way to do this in the various platform native mail apps so I think Outlook mobile is your only hope (you would have to add lots of mailboxes manually and set them to only sync calendar). Its my dream that someday Outlook mobile will display all mailboxes a user has permisisons on (you know like Outlook desktop) and any shared calendars.
Check out page 5 of this uservoice https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/293349-outlook-for-ios/suggestions/8631853-shared-calendars?page=5&per_page=20
"We're working on it! We'll do a more public announcement when the shared calendar feature is completely ready. Make sure you're sharing from & accepting from Outlook on the web. If you're sharing with edit access, at this point you'll need to wait a little after initially accepting before you can edit the calendar. The updates are only available for view & edit permissions and coming soon for delegated permissions. Those are the big things we're finishing in addition to adding ability to share/accept from any Outlook application."
