A whole term in one code
Send a shared school calendar code and every term date, half term and INSET day appears at once, updating whenever the school changes something.
iPhone Calendar is a great place to see dates, and a bad place to type them in.
Plenty of schools never publish an iCal feed at all, so there is nothing to subscribe to in the first place.
Term dates and INSET days sit inside a PDF on the school website that nobody can find twice.
One-off events arrive as photos of paper flyers, class WhatsApp messages and screenshots that Apple Calendar cannot read.
Typing every dress-up day and cake sale into your iPhone by hand leaves one parent carrying the whole schedule.
What ends up in your iPhone calendar
One-off school events
Cake sales, non-uniform days, class assemblies and trip departure times — forward the flyer or message instead of retyping it.
Clubs and sports fixtures
Fixtures and club nights that move around stay visible on the family calendar without anyone re-entering them.
Subscribe once, and everything arrives in the same place
One Toucan feed, subscribed once in Apple Calendar, carries shared term dates and your own one-off events together.
Toucan shows you a preview and waits for your approval before anything is added to your calendar.
Your partner and authorised family members can forward events too, so it isn't one person's job.
It works alongside your school's official feed — keep that subscribed and let Toucan cover everything it misses.
Questions parents ask
How do I subscribe to my school's calendar on iPhone?
If the school publishes an 'iCal' or 'Subscribe' link, tap it on your iPhone and choose Subscribe. Otherwise open Settings > Apps > Calendar > Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add Subscribed Calendar, paste the feed URL and tap Next, then Save.
What if my school doesn't publish a calendar feed?
Most don't. That is what shared family calendars are for: send Toucan the shared code for your school's term dates on WhatsApp and the whole term is added to your feed, and republished automatically when dates change.
How does a shared calendar code work?
Each shared calendar has a short code. Message it to Toucan on WhatsApp, check the preview it sends back, tap Add calendar, and those dates appear in the Toucan feed already subscribed in your Apple Calendar.
Can Apple Calendar create an event from a photo of a flyer?
No. Apple Calendar can't read photos, screenshots or PDFs. Send the image to Toucan on WhatsApp instead — it pulls out the date, time and location and sends you an event to approve.
Can my partner add events to the same iPhone calendar?
Yes. Authorise your partner or another family member and you can both forward messages and photos to Toucan; everything lands in the same shared family calendar feed.