Having a family today is almost as difficult as running a business organization. There are errands to run, a budget to maintain, and endless appointments and events to keep track of. Between attention games, doctor appointments, and schoolhouse events, it can feel a bit overwhelming.

If you already use Google Calendar, you volition be pleased to know that Google offers a complimentary service that can help yous with all this. That service is called Google Family Calendar.

Note: Google Family unit Calendar is bachelor in the United States and the U.Grand, but information technology isn't available in all other countries yet.

Create a Family on Google

Before you can utilise the Google Family unit calendar service, you lot'll need to create a Google Family business relationship.

To become started, install the Family Link app on your mobile device.

one. Tap the profile icon at the upper right of the chief page.

2. Select Settings in the carte du jour.

iii. Select Sign upwards for Family Library.

The app will then walk you through the steps to set up a Family Library. Brand certain every fellow member you include in your family group goes through this process to prepare upwards a Family Library using this same Google Link app.

Now that your Google Family Library is prepare, yous can visit the Google Families page.

Equally yous add together new members to this business relationship (using their Google email account), yous'll come across those individual account profiles displayed on your Google Families main page.

To add new family members to your group, only select the carte icon at the upper left of the folio.

Select Invite family member from the bill of fare.

This will open a page to type the contact info for the person yous desire to add to your family unit group. Y'all have a couple of options here.

  • Blazon the name of someone in your Google contacts.
  • Type the address of the person y'all want to add.

In either of these cases, you can select the person you want to add from the dropdown list of names.

This will add them to your Google Family unit grouping and provide all shared services with them, likewise as all other members.

You can also manage your family unit group from your mobile telephone by installing the Google Family Link app on your Android or iOS device.

Using Google Family Calendar

If you lot scroll downwardly the main Google Families page, you'll see a list of all of the Google services shared amongst all family members.

You lot'll see Google Family Agenda listed here.

You lot can admission Google Calendar here by selecting Get on the right. You lot can also access the aforementioned calendar by going to your Google Calendar account and making sure the Family agenda is enabled.

To do this, merely select the checkbox to the left of Family in the calendar list.

If you don't like the color specified for this upshot (all calendar events will display using this color), you tin change this and other settings by selecting the three dots to the right of the calendar name.

Options here include:

  • Remove all other calendars from the brandish and only display the Family calendar.
  • Hibernate but this calendar from view.
  • Select the color you want to utilise for Family calendar events.

Only select a day and time on the calendar to create a new family issue. Just make sure that Family is selected in the family unit selection dropdown so that the issue gets added to the correct agenda. This will ensure that anybody in your family group volition see the same issue on the calendar.

If you want to make this a Google Meet meeting so that you and other family unit members can have a video chat, but add those users as guests and select Add Google Meet video conferencing.

This will attach a Google Encounter invite link to the event and so that everyone you've invited will be able to join the video conference.

When other members of your family add events to the Family unit agenda, you'll see those events appear with the same color lawmaking. Then, when y'all open the consequence, you can see who created it in the event details popular-up.

This appears only under the name of the calendar itself.

Set Upwards Notifications for Your Google Family unit Calendar

When you ready your shared Google family calendar, you won't receive notifications for the events listed there.

By default, you'll become the same notifications for upcoming events as you do for your principal calendar. However, you won't get notifications when a family member creates, edits, or deletes an outcome.

To alter your notification settings for upcoming events:

1. Log into your Google Calendar account.

2. Hover over the name of your Family calendar and select Options, and select Settings.

three. Gyre down to the Result notifications section and select Add notification.

Fix the new notification fourth dimension setting that appears to the amount of time where you'd like the notification warning to appear before the calendar issue is scheduled.

Now, wherever you're using Google Calendar, you'll come across the alert. This includes the web-based Google Calendar and the mobile Google Agenda app.

The Benefits of Google Family Calendar

Why use Google Family Agenda? When you have a shared agenda among the entire family, everyone in the family knows what's happening with everyone else, at all times. Appointments, sports practice, and other recurring events never become forgotten. And if yous have aunts, uncles, or other extended family who are involved with family events, you tin share the calendar with them as well.