I ran into an issue today. I, like a number of you out there i’m sure, have a number of ical subscriptions which frankly are a must to have by my side (i.e. on my iphone) during my day.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, mobile me doesn’t sync with calendar subscriptions…which is a pain & NEEDS to be fixed by Apple…

After a number of different attempts, I found a solution.

This is the process & it involves google calendar & busysync (although spanning sync should work too).

1. Get the url of the calendar you are trying to subscribe to. It usually is in the form of webcal://www.randomurl.com/user/feeds/ical/333242380e2

2. Create a new calendar by url. See the image below.

3. Next, insert the url into field available but remember to change the first part of the url from webcal:// to http://.

4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for all the calendar subscriptions you have/need.

5. Next up go get busy sync or spanning sync and follow the instructions to install & sync the relevant calendars (which are now on google calendar) with the calendars on your ical.

Now, all your subscriptions act as normal calendars on ical.

The downsides:

a. It’s a hack & not something which considering we pay for mobile me - we should have to do.
b. Google calendar does not sync immediately therefore there’s a delay of which how long, I can’t say.

Other than that - you’re all set.