Noting this here in the hopes that it will be useful for somebody (or even me :)) in the future, since it took me longer than I expected to figure this out.

Scenario: you have a Google account with entries in Google Calendar that you would like to see on your iOS device (iPad / iPhone). Some (well, many) sites suggests that you need to install Google Calendar on the device. This is in fact not necessary!

All you need to do is to link your Google account with the native iOS Calendar App by going to Settings > Apps > Calendar and under “Accounts” add your Google Account. È voilà! That’s all folks! Hat tip to this article for reminding me about the procedure.

PS. You might need to do an additional step for the shared calendars, as described by Scott Hanselmann here: go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect and select the calendars you want to be sync-ed to the iOS devices. I’m not sure if this is needed, since I’ve done it several years ago and it was already enabled when I recently set up a new iOS device.

PS. PS. There is now a new option for ad blocking for iOS devices that is well worth considering: uBlock Origin Lite for iOS.

Image taken from John Davey’s Flickr album with permission.