How to Give Someone Access to a Google Calendar Without Giving Them Your Login

Share the Google calendar with the person's own account and choose an appropriate permission level. You do not need to give them your password, let them sign in as you, or make the calendar public.

Choose the calendar and the task

Before sending an invitation, decide what the person should be able to do. A partner planning dinner may only need your availability. An assistant arranging appointments may need editing access. A co-organizer managing a shared project may need broader control.

Also choose the actual calendar. Sharing a dedicated household calendar is different from sharing your whole personal schedule. If you only need to collaborate on one area, such as a project or the household, create or use a calendar for that subject.

For work and school accounts, your administrator can limit sharing. Follow those rules rather than publishing the calendar to avoid them.

Send a private sharing invitation

Use Google Calendar in a computer browser:

Find the calendar in the left-hand calendar list.
Open its settings and sharing options.
Find the section for people or groups with access.
Add the recipient's account address.
Choose the appropriate permission and send the invitation.

The recipient accepts through the email they receive. Google sometimes renames these controls; its sharing instructions show the current labels.

Check the address carefully, especially when someone has both personal and work identities.

Choose the least access that works

Free/busy access is useful when the person only needs to know whether a time is occupied. Detail-viewing access reveals more about appointments. Editing and sharing-management permissions grant progressively more control.

Consider the calendar's real content before choosing. A seemingly ordinary event can contain addresses, meeting links or sensitive notes. You do not need to reveal those simply so someone can avoid a conflicting time.

Review who can see private event details when granting editing access. Google offers editing permissions that hide private details and higher levels that reveal them.

If the person uses a non-Gmail address

They may have a Google account using their existing email address. Google's account-creation instructions include that option.

If they use Outlook, compare private Google access with an Outlook calendar subscription before choosing the connection. They offer different editing and refresh behavior.

Keep your calendar's Secret address in iCal format private. It is for your own applications; send the person a sharing invitation instead.

Confirm the recipient's experience

Ask the person to open the calendar and confirm what they can see. To check editing permission, use a test event they can change without affecting a real appointment, then remove it.

They may need to select the shared calendar in their calendar list before it appears. If the invitation is missing, check the address and spam folder before changing privacy settings or sending broader access.

Accessing your shared calendar leaves its events in that calendar. For scheduling gaps in the recipient's primary calendar, see visible calendars and double-booking.

Change or remove access later

Return to the calendar's sharing settings and adjust or remove the person's permission. Review public and organization-wide settings separately, because a named invitation may not be the only path to access.

Removing access cannot recall screenshots or exported information already received. Keep initial permissions proportionate to the task.

Copies for another account's availability

Avum is not needed for basic Google calendar sharing. A Sync Rule can help when another authorized calendar needs copies, such as a work calendar receiving generic busy blocks from a personal Google source. Avum Calendar shows connected sources together.

For a shared household schedule, start with native sharing. Add synchronization only if there is a separate availability or copying problem to solve.

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