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Thus, we need to complete the above two steps before we can actually add the iCloud calendar to Thunderbird. Some digging is necessary to get a hold of this gold nugget. If you don’t know the specific URL to your iCloud calendar you can’t add it to Thunderbird.

Apple is not willing to reveal the URL to your remote calendar.

Therefore you need to create an app-specific password for Thunderbird. Of course, this is not feasible if Thunderbird authenticates itself against iCloud on your behalf. If you log into iCloud Apple requires username/password plus a verification code they send to your mobile.

You need to deal with two-factor authentication (2FA).

However, with an iCloud calendar it’s more complicated than usual for two reasons: Unfortunately, this is more complicated than it could and should be but I guess Apple really wants you to use their apps exclusively.Ĭonnect an iCloud calendar to ThunderbirdĪdding any remote calendar to Thunderbird is trivial.

just what you’d expect: full integration, editable calendar with two-way synchronisation. It’s a pity that Apple only documented this one. I’ll mention it at the very end of this article for the sake of completeness.

The lame one: a read-only view of any iCloud calendar.

There are two general approaches how to add an iCloud calendar to Thunderbird With TBSync currently you won't be able to change the names of the calendars as they are being directly synced with the account, lest you drop the connection to that account.How to setup a Thunderbird iCloud calendar sync connect TB to iCloud Thunderbird iCloud calendar sync But the devs for TBSync have a good reputation so I am sure that it will be updated soon. TBSync is very spotty with maintaining a solid connection to iCloud (in TB v78) and will not tell you or give you an error message to let you know it isn't syncing. I do want to add that TBSync v2.16 is known to also work with setting up iCloud and Google calendars as well (for those needing Exchange ActiveSync, that one has been updated.