Fortunately, AOL allows us to put our AOL calendars onto our iPhones and iPads, if we first make a special password for doing so. I don’t know enough to break the tie but I do know I want my AOL calendar on my iPhone. Step 2 (create an app password) needs some explanation.ĪOL has ideas about what’s a secure app and what’s not, and they’ve decided that the iPhone’s Calendar app is not secure. Step 1 (leave your AOL account alone): that’s easy, just leave it alone. Whether you’re on iOS 14 or not, the next step is “Add CalDAV account.” More on that later too.

Go to Settings on your iPhone, then (for iOS 14 users) Calendar/Accounts/Add Account/Other (iOS 12 and 13 users follow a slightly different path: Settings/Passwords & Accounts/Add Account/Other.

Using a web browser, go to the Security section of your AOL Account settings and create “an app password.” More on that later.

First, leave your AOL account on your iPhone (or iPad) alone.

You might think that deleting your AOL account from your iPhone and adding it again would solve things, but it won’t: if you delete your AOL account and add it again you’ll end up in the same place so don’t bother going through that exercise. Not true! (I’ll prove it to you in a moment– that’s the point of this article, after all). For example, their help page says:ĪOL Calendar is only available on desktop web browsers and AOL Desktop Gold. The amount of mis-information on this topic is vast, and some of it comes from AOL itself. (iOS 12 and iOS 13 users would go to Settings/Passwords & Accounts/AOL but they’d still be missing the option to turn on Calendars.) How to get your AOL calendar onto your iPhone and iPad It doesn’t matter how you approach this– you can come in from Settings/Calendar/Accounts/AOL or from Settings/Mail/Accounts/AOL or from Settings/Contacts/Accounts/AOL and you’ll see the same thing: options for Mail and for Notes, but nothing else.

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