How to see your Notion tasks in Apple Calendar on iPhone
Notion cannot put your tasks into the iPhone's Calendar app by itself. Something has to turn each dated page into an event in a calendar your iPhone already reads, which in practice means iCloud. There are three ways to do that, and I built Calnio for the third, so I will say where the first two are the better pick.
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Why Notion does not do this on its own
Notion's calendar view only exists inside Notion. Its help page for calendar views offers no export or subscription link for Apple Calendar or iCloud. For other calendars it points to Notion Calendar and to its API, which a developer or another tool has to use for you.
Way 1: a subscribed calendar feed
Some tools turn a Notion database into a private calendar link that Apple Calendar subscribes to, the same way it subscribes to any shared calendar. Notion to Calendar works like this. On its site, read on 26 October 2026, the free plan is one feed with up to 30 events, titles and dates only.
A feed is read-only. A date you move in Notion arrives on the phone, but moving the event on the phone changes nothing in Notion, and Apple Calendar decides when to check the link again. If all you want is to look at your tasks on your phone, a feed at that size costs nothing and covers it.
Way 2: Notion Calendar
Notion makes its own calendar app, Notion Calendar, which is free and has apps for Mac, Windows and iPhone. It can show a Notion database beside your iCloud and Google events.
The limit is on Notion's help page: you can only view your Notion database in Notion Calendar, not in Google or iCloud calendar. Your tasks appear in that app, and the iPhone's own Calendar app still does not have them.
If opening Notion Calendar instead of Apple Calendar suits you, use it. It costs nothing and there is nothing to connect. I compare the two in more detail on the Calnio vs Notion Calendar page.
Way 3: write real events into iCloud
This is what Calnio does. It writes each dated Notion page into an iCloud calendar over CalDAV, the protocol Apple Calendar uses itself, so your iPhone sees ordinary events. iCloud also carries them to your iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Nothing is installed on the phone.
- Sign in to Calnio with Google. That creates your account.
- Connect Notion and tick the databases Calnio may see.
- Connect iCloud with an app-specific password from account.apple.com, under Sign-In and Security. Apple only offers these when two-factor authentication is on.
- Tick a database. Calnio finds its date column, makes an iCloud calendar named after the database and runs the first sync straight away.
Then open Calendar on your iPhone, tap Calendars at the bottom, and make sure the new calendar is ticked under iCloud. The step-by-step guide covers each screen, including what to do when no date column is found.
Pick this one if you want the events in the Calendar app you already open, on every Apple device, and want to edit them there.
What to expect from it
A date with no time becomes an all-day event. A date with a time becomes an event at that time, an hour long unless the Notion date has an end, and a date range covers the whole range. Calnio copies the title and the date and nothing else, so ticking a task done in Notion leaves its event where it is.
It is not instant. Calnio checks every 30 minutes on the free plan, every 15 by default on the paid plan, and as often as every 5 if you choose. A task you add now can take a few minutes to show up.
The free plan is one database, one way, from Notion to the calendar. The paid plan is $3.99 a month, the first 7 days are free with no card, and it adds two-way sync and more databases. With two-way on, moving or renaming an event on your phone changes the Notion page, and deleting it sends the page to the Notion trash.