Calendar Guide

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

KeepCue shows the calendars already on your iPhone next to your routines. It only reads them. Nothing is changed, and nothing leaves your iPhone.

If a calendar is in your iPhone’s Calendar app, KeepCue can show it. If it isn’t, KeepCue can’t see it either, so the steps below are done in Calendar, Contacts or Settings, and then the events can appears in KeepCue.

Choose what shows

  1. Open KeepCue and tap the calendar button at the top of the Timeline.
  2. Turn on Show calendar events. Allow Full Access when asked.
  3. Every calendar on your iPhone is listed, grouped by account. Turn off the ones you don’t want on your Timeline.

Calendars you add later start turned off, so nothing appears without you choosing it. Come back to this screen to turn any calendar on. The same happens if you remove an account and add it back: its calendars return turned off.

Birthdays

Birthdays come from your contacts.

  1. In Contacts, add a birthday to a person.
  2. In Calendar, turn on the Birthdays calendar.
  3. In KeepCue’s calendar settings, turn on the same calendar.

They appear in the all-day row, and they update when you change the contact.

Your Google or work calendar

Adding the account to your iPhone is what makes it visible to KeepCue.

  1. In your iPhone’s Settings, add the account to Calendar. Apple’s guide to setting up mail, contacts and calendar accounts has the current steps.
  2. Make sure Calendars is turned on for the account.

Google, one extra step. Only your main Google calendar syncs to the iPhone by default. Calendars you created, and calendars shared with you, also need turning on at calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect.

Holidays

  1. In your iPhone’s Calendar app, turn on the Holidays calendar for your country. Apple’s guide to using multiple calendars shows how.
  2. In KeepCue’s calendar settings, turn on the same calendar.

Holidays appear in the all-day row at the top of the day. They never count as a clash with your routines.

Keep one part of life separate

A separate calendar is the easiest way to show something on your Timeline some days and hide it on others.

  1. In Calendar, add a new calendar (see Apple’s guide to using multiple calendars).
  2. Name it, for example “Work” or “Kids”, and pick a color.
  3. When you create an event, choose that calendar.
  4. In KeepCue, you can turn this calendar on or off whenever you want.

Subscribe to a public calendar

A subscription is a read-only calendar that keeps itself up to date from the web: your team’s fixtures, a show’s release dates, school terms, public holidays.

  1. Find the calendar’s subscription link. Sites usually call it Subscribe, Add to Apple Calendar or iCal feed. The link ends in .ics or starts with webcal://.
  2. In Calendar, add it as a subscription calendar and paste the link. Apple’s guide to using multiple calendars shows how.
  3. Turn it on in KeepCue’s calendar settings.

Subscribed calendars update on a schedule set by your iPhone, so a change made by whoever publishes the feed can take a while to reach your iPhone.

More calendar questions

More calendar questions? See the Calendar section of Support & FAQ page.