Apple Calendar - share available times (but not names/locations) w/ work Outlook acct.?

[kevswords]

Hi-

Wondering if this is possible. I maintain my work calendar in Outlook (provided by the company) and my personal life in iCloud/Apple Calendar.

I'd like to share my Apple Calendar with Outlook, but only the times. e.g. I can tell when I have something happening in my off-hours so as to not schedule a late meeting with work - or so colleagues don't schedule me for something after hours - but I don't want my IT department or anyone else to be able to see the details of my personal calendar. Just that I have something scheduled at that time.

I have successfully managed to subscribe in Outlook to my Apple Calendar, but it only seems to be able to import all or nothing.

Thoughts? Thank you.

 

[MacGizmo]

I'm not aware of any way to share ONLY the times from an iCloud calendar. This is easily done with Google and Outlook, but not Apple's calendar. The only solution I can think of is to just view your calendar on iCloud.com instead of sharing it. It's a sucky solution, but maybe can share a better one here.

 

[kevswords]

I'm not aware of any way to share ONLY the times from an iCloud calendar. This is easily done with Google and Outlook, but not Apple's calendar. The only solution I can think of is to just view your calendar on iCloud.com instead of sharing it. It's a sucky solution, but maybe can share a better one here.

Thanks @MacGizmo ... a big part of the reason I was looking for this kind of solution was so colleagues who use Scheduling Assistant can be aware that I am not available e.g. I have a doc appointment in the afternoon during a work day. The Scheduling Assistant is a great tool, but granting iCloud access to Outlook means sharing my entire personal life with at least the IT team and possibly anyone else with high level access, and I don't know who's on that list.

Hate to say it but I've been around long enough to know personal stuff should stay personal so I was hoping there was a way.

If anyone else w/ this issue is reading I think my solution will be to make a 'Personal' calendar in Outlook, only put in limited info (available times), and then not show that calendar on my other devices to prevent there being multiple entries for the same event on my iPhone/watch.

Anyway - thanks for responding @MacGizmo ! Happy New Year.

 

[MacGizmo]

Thanks @MacGizmo ... a big part of the reason I was looking for this kind of solution was so colleagues who use Scheduling Assistant can be aware that I am not available e.g. I have a doc appointment in the afternoon during a work day. The Scheduling Assistant is a great tool, but granting iCloud access to Outlook means sharing my entire personal life with at least the IT team and possibly anyone else with high level access, and I don't know who's on that list.

Hate to say it but I've been around long enough to know personal stuff should stay personal so I was hoping there was a way.

If anyone else w/ this issue is reading I think my solution will be to make a 'Personal' calendar in Outlook, only put in limited info (available times), and then not show that calendar on my other devices to prevent there being multiple entries for the same event on my iPhone/watch.

Anyway - thanks for responding @MacGizmo ! Happy New Year.

You're not alone with this problem. A lot of people would love to effortlessly integrate an Apple "home" calendar with a "work" calendar that uses Google or Outlook. Unfortunately, I've not come across anyone that manages to do it.

Apple just prefers customers to live entirely in their own ecosystem or not at all. The flip-side is that if you DO live entirely in the Apple ecosystem, it works very well. It's very frustrating.

Ah well... maybe the New Year will bring new things from Apple that will make us forget these annoyances.