Yes, that is very frustrating. I tell clients to check my bookings page but not make the booking there and instead send me a calendar invitation, which is not very convenient.
Bookings meetings sync with iPhone, but not with MacBook
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tl;dr — I have an issue where Microsoft Bookings reservations are synced from my institutional email address to Apple Calendar on my iPhone, but not to Apple Calendar on my Mac. This is extremely annoying.
Hardware and software
I have a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro running macOS Ventura 13.2.1 and an iPhone 13 running iOS 16.3.1. I use Spark as my email client and Apple Calendar as my calendar client, on both my Mac and my iPhone.
The problem
Through my institutional Microsoft Outlook email, I use Microsoft Bookings to schedule short meetings with my students. I'm notified via email whenever someone makes a reservation. These Bookings meetings show up on my online Outlook calendar and on my iPhone's Apple Calendar, but they do not show up on my MacBook's Apple Calendar. Bookings meetings are sent to my default "Calendar" calendar on Outlook and cannot be sent to a different calendar (at least based on my attempts!) — the Outlook default "Calendar" is synced with both my iPhone and MacBook. (While writing this, I got a Calendar notification for an upcoming meeting on my iPhone, but not on my MacBook! I don't want to miss meetings because I don't have my phone on me.)
What I've tried
I've tried enabling/disabling the default "Calendar" calendar on Outlook, enabling/disabling my institutional email on my MacBook, signing in/out of my institutional email address on my MacBook, and gone through many many pages of Outlook settings. This page won't let me upload images (they keep failing, not sure why), but I have the appropriate calendars selected in all three locations.
Any help would be greatly appreciated — this issue has been bugging me for months!
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Anonymous
2023-03-26T12:06:42+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-03-26T12:19:14+00:00 Hello together,
i do not know why, but they are visible in my calendar now.
i did nothing.
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Anonymous
2023-03-26T12:43:21+00:00 Still doesn't work for me. Just made a booking and it immediately appeared in the Calendar app on my iPhone. But it never shows up in the Calendar app on my Mac.
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Anonymous
2023-04-21T15:20:03+00:00 Same issue. Syncs to iPhone's Calendar but not to Calendar on MacBook Air.
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Anonymous
2023-05-23T20:38:17+00:00 Exact same issue. Tried everything.