Get Your Address Book Birthday Calendar on Your iPad Using MobileMe

This is the best method to get your Birthday Calendar on your iPad using your MobileMe account. It will automatically update as you add/delete birthdays from your Address Book.

Steps

  1. In iCal on your Mac, check "Show Birthdays calendar" in Preferences if it is not already checked.
  2. Select the Birthdays menu, then go to Calendar -> Publish...
  3. Check "Publish changes automatically" and ensure "Publish to:" is set to MobileMe. Click Publish.
  4. A window will pop up giving an address for the calendar (starts with webcal://). Keep this handy for Step 6.
  5. On the iPad, go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add Account... -> Other -> Add Subscribed Calendar
  6. Enter the webcal address from Step 4 and tap Next. Enter your MobileMe username and password and save.
  7. That's it. If you want to change the color of your Birthday calendar, proceed to Step 8.
  8. On the iPad, go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Birthdays (under Accounts). Switch the Account switch to Off.
  9. Using Safari on your ipad, subscribe to other calendars to get the color you want. These calendars are temporary and will be deleted when you are done.
  10. Click "Subscribe" in the popup, then "View Events" in the next popup (if you don't get a "Subscribe" button, try another calendar). Repeat Steps 9 & 10, using a different calendar for each, until one shows up with the color you want (you may have to use the "Back" button on Safari to get back to your page of calendars).
  11. Note the name of the calendar with your color (if you forgot, you can tap on the "Calendars" button in the upper-left corner of the Calendar app and scroll to the bottom).
  12. Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> (name of the calendar) -> Delete Account.
  13. Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Birthdays -> Account to On.
  14. You can go back to the Calendar app to ensure the Birthdays calendar is the correct color.
  15. Return to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and delete the remaining temporary calendars. Your Birthdays calendar will retain it's color (unless you delete or turn it off again).
  16. UPDATE: This no longer seems to be required in iOS 4.3.1 with Mobile Me. Birthday Calendars seem to just sync.

Tips

  • This may work on the iPhone/iPod Touch, but I haven't tried it.
  • This no longer seems to be required in iOS 4.3.1 with Mobile Me. They just sync.
  • This may work on another server other than MobileMe, but I haven't tried it.
  • If a birthday is added/deleted/changed on the MobileMe calendar, you may have to close, then reopen the Calendar app to get it to get off of the ipad or device.

Things You'll Need

  • Mac (connected to the internet)
  • iPad (also connected to the internet)
  • MobileMe account (may be able to use private server, see Tips)

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