How do I choose which calendars to sync with Garmin watch?

Max 6 months ago

Hello All,

My Garmin watch has a feature that shows the events of the day. But it always shows no events. I would like it to show my calendar events. Do you know how I can do this? I suspect that it might be expecting me to use apple's calendar app rather than using iCal standards that would support the use of any calendar.

Details:

- On my phone, Garmin Connect has: Settings > Phone Permissions > Calendar set to "Full Access" but has no way of specifying which calendar to get events from.

- My GarminConnect is installed on iOS

- My watch is a Vivoactive 5

- My most important calendar is on Fastmail, so has a standard iCal API. For one company I also use their corporate google calendar so syncing that as well would be useful but most of my events are on Fastmail. I do not use Apple calendar. I deleted it. Good riddance.

I found instructions for how to sync Google Calendar (static.garmincdn.com/.../sync_google.html), however Settings>Sync doesn't exist on my Garmin Connect. Maybe it has moved. Also, it seems to be specific for Google Calendar, not generic for any calendar.

Any help would be appreciated.

0 Garmin-Inder 6 months ago

Thank you for your post. You'll want to try the steps mentioned in this FAQ: Events and Other Items Not Showing In My Garmin Calendar Widget

This information is based on the native calendar app on the phone. If you continue to have trouble with this, please reach out to your local Garmin Support team.

0 Max 6 months ago in reply to Garmin-Inder

Do you have information for how to use this without using the apple calendar? I don't use the apple calendar and don't intend to.

0 Max 6 months ago in reply to Max

The docs say that it works only with the native calendar app, so it just won't work. I have disabled the widget.