Step by step (per device)

Your feed links are on your family page: Settings (≡) → Calendar on your phone — one per calendar your athletes are in. Tap Subscribe on an iPhone, or copy the https://…ics address for Google Calendar. Once you have it:

iPhone (Apple Calendar)

Do this on the iPhone itself, in Safari.

1. Open your family page in Safari and go to Settings (≡) → Calendar on your phone.
2. Tap Subscribe next to the calendar you want.
3. iOS shows a box: “Subscribing to Calendar”. Tap Subscribe in the top right.
4. Choose the account if it asks — iCloud is the usual answer — and tap Done.

That’s it. Events appear in Apple Calendar within seconds.

If tapping Subscribe does nothing, you are probably in a browser other than Safari, or inside an app’s built-in browser. Copy the plain https:// address instead and use the manual steps below.

Manually:

1. Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account.
2. Pick Other → Add Subscribed Calendar.
3. Paste the feed URL into Server. Tap Next.
4. Confirm and save.

Screenshot: iOS calendar subscription confirmation

Android (Google Calendar)

Google Calendar does not support adding webcal feeds directly from Android. You have to do it once from a desktop browser; after that it appears on Android too.

Step 1 (on a desktop):

1. Open calendar.google.com in a browser.
2. In the left sidebar, find Other calendars → tap the + → From URL.
3. Paste the feed URL. (Replace webcal:// with https:// — Google only accepts https URLs.)
4. Click Add calendar.

Screenshot: Google Calendar “From URL” dialog

Step 2 (on Android):

5. Open the Google Calendar app on your phone.
6. Pull-to-refresh or wait — the new calendar appears within a few minutes.
7. Turn its switch on. Google adds the calendar to your account but leaves it switched off on the phone — this is the step people miss, and it is why “I added it and nothing happened” is the commonest thing we hear about Android.

Refresh latency on Android Google Calendar: Google polls the webcal feed roughly every 12-24 hours. So changes won’t show up immediately — they wait for Google’s next sync. This is a Google limitation, not ours.

Desktop (Apple Calendar)

macOS Calendar:

1. Open Calendar.app.
2. Menu bar → File → New Calendar Subscription.
3. Paste the feed URL. Click Subscribe.
4. Pick refresh interval (recommend every 15 minutes) and a color.

Outlook (Mac/Windows):

1. In Outlook web (outlook.live.com or outlook.office.com), look for Add calendar in the sidebar.
2. Subscribe from web → paste the feed URL.
3. Name it, pick a color, save.

Outlook’s polling is roughly hourly.

Windows Calendar:

1. Open the Calendar app.
2. Settings → Manage accounts → Add account → iCloud / advanced depending on version.
3. Outlook integration is simpler; the Calendar app’s iCal support varies.

For Windows users, Google Calendar in a browser with the feed added (see Android tab) is often the cleanest path.

Refresh frequency

Platform	How often events sync
Apple Calendar (iPhone or macOS)	up to an hour
Google Calendar (any device)	12-24 hours (Google’s limit)
Outlook	~hourly

So if the coach changes a practice time, Apple Calendar users see it within the hour; Google Calendar users see it on their next sync. The family-page chat panel and phone push are always live regardless of which calendar app you use — the iCal feed is a “view in your phone’s calendar” convenience.

Removing the subscription

Same path in reverse — each calendar app has a way to remove a subscribed calendar. Removing it doesn’t affect your family page or push notifications.