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MicrosoftShared calendars now sync to mobile phones
That's a great feature - but only if you want it.
How do you turn it off? I don't want ALL the shared calendars showing on my mobile calendar. The only option is to turn off the "calendar" which incorporates my personal calendar and all shared. This is rather annoying, so hopefully there is a way to do this without actually deleting the shared calendars from within my O365 account.
- Julia ForanHi Allan, there is no way to disable this. We have to promise users that they will have the same calendars sync to all of your devices (just like they experience in every other calendar service). Feel free to private message me with more feedback about your use cases for not wanting all calendars to sync to all devices.
I need to turn this off. We have multiple people with multiple appointments per day. When I am at my desktop I can check where everyone is and schedule appointments for them, but when i am out and about I need to know where I have to be. I don't want 30+ other appointments on my screen. You need to make this optional or I have to turn off all shared calanders, which then means i can't schedule my people when I am in the office. This is really frustrating.
- Julia ForanHi Shay,
You can select/unselect the calendars shown in the calendar app if you don't want to see other people's calendars on your mobile phone. Note that not all Android calendar apps allow this, but the Outlook mobile app on Android does.
Hi Julia
Thanks for the reply. But as you know in Office365 OWA and Outlook you can turn these calendars on and off as required, as I doubt anyone wants all of their shared calendars on at the same time. Especially on a mobile device where the screen size is so much smaller I cannot see half of the entries on my calendar anymore. This really should be looked at and have a function where you can change what you are viewing.
- Julia ForanHi Allan, I completely agree with you. In the Outlook mobile clients on iOS & Android, you can select/unselect calendars just like you can in all the other Outlook clients. You can also select/unselect calendars in the native iOS calendar app. I'm not sure how all the native Android apps work across manufacturers, but that is just a limitation of the app you're using. I recommend using the Outlook mobile apps myself :-)
