The schedule on the phone already in their pocket
The same private feed that drives Google Calendar works natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Subscribe once on one device and iCloud carries it to the rest, so a crew lead sees the week without installing anything.
- Direction
- One-way, BuildersBridge to Apple Calendar
- What appears
- Scheduled work, inspections, deliveries, task due dates
- Window
- 30 days back, 180 days forward
- Devices
- iPhone, iPad, Mac — syncs through iCloud
- Plans
- Every plan, no extra charge
- Setup
- Dashboard → Settings → Integrations
Subscribing on a Mac
Copy the feed address from Dashboard → Settings → Integrations. In the Calendar app choose File → New Calendar Subscription, paste the address, and pick how often macOS should refresh it.
Set the location to iCloud rather than On My Mac. That is the step people skip, and it is the one that decides whether the calendar appears on the phone as well — a subscription stored locally stays on that Mac.
Subscribing on iPhone or iPad
If you already subscribed on a Mac with the calendar stored in iCloud, it is on the phone already and there is nothing to do.
To add it directly on the device: Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar, then paste the address. Getting a long feed URL onto a phone is easier if you mail or message it to yourself first and tap it there.
Refresh on iOS is not instant
Apple controls how often a subscribed calendar is fetched, and on iOS it can lag noticeably behind a change made in BuildersBridge — the refresh interval is a device setting, not something the feed can push.
That matters for how you use it. A subscribed calendar is good for seeing the shape of the week; it is not the right channel for telling a crew that today's start time moved an hour ago. Send that as a message and let the calendar catch up.
The address is the credential
The feed URL carries a 256-bit token, and holding the address is what grants access — there is no Apple ID connected to BuildersBridge and no permission to approve. Treat it like a password.
If it gets somewhere it should not be, rotating or disabling the token in Settings invalidates the old address immediately. Subscribers stop receiving updates and resubscribe with the new one.
Questions
- Does this need an app from the App Store?
- No. It is a calendar subscription, so it uses the Calendar app already on the device. There is nothing to install and no account to connect.
- Why has my iPhone not picked up a change?
- iOS decides how often it refreshes a subscribed calendar and it is not immediate. If a change is urgent, send it as a message — the calendar is for the shape of the week, not for same-hour changes.
- Can I edit events from my iPhone?
- No. The feed is read-only, so an edit on the phone affects only your local copy until the next refresh replaces it. Edit the schedule in BuildersBridge.
- Will it sync to all my devices?
- If you subscribe on a Mac with the calendar stored in iCloud rather than On My Mac, yes. Subscribing directly on a device adds it to that device only.
Connect it on any plan
Calendar feeds, Zapier and webhooks are included on every plan — no add-on, no integration fee.