.ics / Gmail Calendar and iPhone

[anon(153966)]

Good Evening all -

What's the best solution for using .ics, i.e. Calendar invitations via Gmail on an iPhone? Seems the iPhone doesn't read them correctly, thus won't update one's calendar, etc, et...

 

[anon(153966)]

Wait, hold the phone. No one uses Calendar invites?

 

[applejosh]

No, I just don't think anyone knows how this can work with the iPhone. It's one of my biggest issues. It's how me and missus try to keep things scheduled/organized between us.

 

[anon(153966)]

...thanks, Josh. That's EXACTLY what we're doing. Albeit if I log into my Gmail account online, and then accept\decline said invite, it then updates my calendar accordingly. But, who wants to do all that?

 

[applejosh]

...thanks, Josh. That's EXACTLY what we're doing. Albeit if I log into my Gmail account online, and then accept\decline said invite, it then updates my calendar accordingly. But, who wants to do all that?

I sure don't want to jump through that many hoops to do such. I've put the request in to Apple (not like i expect them to actually read such things) about adding this kind of functionality to the expensive MobileMe. I don't know. Kind of missing my BlackBerry right now.

 

[anon(153966)]

Er, don't go that far! I certainly don't miss my Blackberry. Further more, what is a Blackberry? - LOL

 

[applejosh]

I do miss my BB for certain things. Alarms, multitasking, TodoMatrix, and the like. I don't miss it for browsing, twitter apps, general social networking, games, fitness/health (eg. RunKeeper). Since this is more of a personal toy right now, it doesn't affect me too much, but I still wish the iPhone had more.

 

[kbcherry]

I've got the same problem as you guys, well kind of. I get around it by using a hosted exchange account which doesn't have this problem. Which I don't understand. If I send a meeting invite to pop mail on the iphone (my own personal domain email) then I get the .ics file thing. Same thing using gmail. Now if I send the exact same invite to my hosted exchange email I have no problems. I don't understand why it would be so hard. And I am coming from Windows Mobile, I love the iphone, but this is its biggest downfall in my opinion. I am more concerned with calendar and PIM functionality, along with notifications, that I am multitasking. Like no way to snooze calendar reminders. Thats just horrible. Pretty much makes the calendar unusable.

So if anyone has a good solution I would love to know. Like you all I want to manage it all from the phone and not have to log into the desktop just to accept a meeting invite.