Enable Group calendars in Outlook for iOS
I really hope the Outlook Groups app is just a temporary solution. It's completely unusable and a terrible UI with regards to calendaring. No week or month view, no ability to see your personal calendar at the same time to check for availability or conflicts. We have many users who live on their iPhones throughout the day with little or no access to the desktop apps. Please add Group calendars directly to Outlook for iOS.
Sam Bergin
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Thanks for the feedback. We are planning to bring group calendar to Outlook iOS and Android app in the near future.
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Ctrim
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Is there any update on when? This has been in the works for years!
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Luke
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Can we please get an update on when this will release?
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T
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Simply needed for a positive user interface
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Mark Dreibelbis
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Simple need that should be available.
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Anonymous
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How near? We are basing our whole ecosystem around TEAMS... .but yall gotta recognize that here in the US most business professionals are carrying iPhones in their pockets.
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NSmith
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Cannot add a Group calendar to Outlook Android app. This still isn't available? I can search for it and I can see the name but when I click the + it but it gives me "Can't Add Calendar" You cant open Groups at this time. I was a HUGE Microsoft fan...but this is ridiculous its not available yet! Is there a workaround? I have Teams and the Outlook app. I can see both names but the fact it can pull that data for the name up and not just sync up when all of these exist within the Microsoft platform tools universe, is odd to me. Do you have an ETA on this?
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Karen
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We recently switched to a Group calendar to help clean up our personal calendars. Sharing calendars means that everything is shared, which is unnecessary and invasive. Sending calendar invites means that you have countless unnecessary items in your calendar and a messy inbox. We want to be able to share appointments that effect the group, as well as communicate upcoming city events that will effect business. Group calendar as it is in the desktop app is perfect for our needs. How is it not a mobile option?! We need the functionality to sync a group calendar to our phones and manipulate it like any other calendar. Is this going to happen soon?
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Anonymous
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all i want is to install windows 10 or 8.1
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Anonymous
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Absurd this isn't available! Literally holding up my unit from moving to teams completely.
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Bill
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Unbelievable that this is not available. We told users not to use a Google group calendar, expecting this function to work in Outlook. Now our users can't see the group calendar on their phones.
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Anonymous
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"IN THE PLANS".
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Anonymous
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Two years of waiting it coud not be so hard.
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Herbert Wolfmayr
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It is an important feature for our customers.
We provide O365 with Teams, Planner etc. to our Costumers - as an end to end solution - and mobility is an very important feature - we use teams client and outlook (both mobile and desktop) as HUB for our solutions.
There is Groups calender in mobile App necessary.
Is there "a light at the end of the tunnel" .. and is .. Outlook - with group function on the next roadmap for outlook Mobile (IOS and Android) -
Samantha Gross
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Is there an idea of when Outlook group calendar will be available to IOS?
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Anonymous
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Here we are at the end of July 2019 and this desperately required feature in the iOS and Android apps is STILL absent.
Two years ago we were told that this was coming in the near future but still nothing.
Dear developers, please pull your finger out and get this sorted. -
Anonymous
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Flipping heck Microsoft - whats the point of group calendars if you can't access the calendar on the move! Basics.
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Michelle
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Has the "add group calendar" function on the Outlook app been fixed??? I find it ridiculous that this is even an issue.
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Todd Charlton
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Everything regarding ANY kind of calendar seems half-baked with Office 365. In PowerApps, I can only recently write an event to a group calendar (but I can't read or update, making it useless), you can't use group calendars with, say... A GROUP... via Outlook on Android or iOS. You CAN use PowerApps to update a SHAREPOINT calendar, but, of course, you can't add a Sharepoint calendar to Outlook. In my specific circumstance now, I created a PowerApp to help schedule our maintenance department. I couldn't make it create the event in the actual user's calendar, so I figured I'd use a Group calendar. THAT doesn't allow me to update events, so if they mess up, they have to manually delete the event. So now, I need to log onto the user's computer, and create a FLOW that syncs events from the Group calendar to the user's calendar. It's amateurish, especially for how long these features have been requested. It's easier to synchronize things using a GOOGLE calendar. Why can't Microsoft get their O365 products working with their OTHER O365 products?
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liz braun
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I just checked the Group Details in my Outlook for IOS but unfortunately don't see the option for "Events". I see Members, Files and OneNote but not events :(.
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Jon
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Even worse, the latest iOS update indicates you can add a "shared" calendar but the process does not complete with an error of "You are unable to add a group calendar at this time" if that shared calendar is actually a groups calendar. It's not like half our users know the difference between a shared calendar and a group.