How to Sync Your iCloud Calendar With Windows 10
The iCloud app for Windows has been available for a long time. It lets you sync files, Photos, bookmarks from your iPhone to the Windows PC and vice-versa. However, this doesn’t comprise of emails and calendar events. To do that, you have to set up your Apple Email account on your Windows system. Here’s how you do it.
First of all, download and install theMicrosoft Mail and Calendarapp from the Microsoft store. Open the app and skip tothis section. In case you have been already using the Microsoft Mail app, we would need to add another Email account. For that, click on the gear icon at the bottom-left corner.
From the Settings menu slide out, click on Manage Accounts.
Once the Manage Accounts menu slides in, click on “Add account”.
On the Add new Account menu, you would have all the supported email providers. In our case, it is Apple, so click on “iCloud”.
Now before we enter the sign-in credentials, you need to check if your Apple account hastwo-factor authenticationturned on. If you don’t have two-factor authentication, enter the default Apple Mail credentials. But, if you do, the default password won’t work for you. We would have to generate a third-party app password. To do that, head over to theApple ID Account Settings. Navigate to the security section and click on “Generate password” under the App-specific password label.
A pop-up will appear asking you to create a label for this password. You can have any random name for it, I am naming it as “Windows Mail”. Next, click on the Create button and you would see a 16-word long password generated. Copy and paste it somewhere as you won’t be able to recover this password later.
Head over to the Microsoft Mail sign-in box and enter the third-party app password we generated. Apart from that, enter your Apple Email ID and an account name.
In case, you get a sign-in error like below, ensure you have entered the correct credentials. If the problem persists, head over tothis sectionfor further troubleshooting.
Once you are successfully logged in, your emails will appear under the Microsoft Mail Window. Additionally, your calendar events will be synced from your Windows PC to the iPhone and vice-versa.
To see your calendar events, click on the Calendar icon at the bottom-left side. This will open a new window wherein you’re able to view your local Microsoft account and Apple Mail events.
Unlike me, if you use only the Apple Email account, you would be better off switching the rest of the calendars to avoid confusion. Foremost, disable the local Microsoft Calendar by unchecking the Calendar at the bottom left. Post that, you would see events only from your Apple account.
you’re able to also quickly add events to your iPhone calendar from the Windows 10 taskbar. To do that, click on the clock time at the bottom right and add your events on the textbox just below the calendar.
Once the events are synced, you can see the same on your iPhone in the iOS calendar app or thewidget screen.
How to resolve Microsoft Mail Error
The “0x80004005” error could possibly have multiple reasons. One of them could be due to the developer version of the Mail app. To enroll out of it, you can simply run a Powershell command on the Windows Powershell app. Make sure you run it as an Administrator since the command requires elevated permissions.
Copy and paste the following command in Powershell window and hit Enter. In case you face any error, make sure you close all the instances of the Microsoft Mail app.
Post that, restart your computer system and on startup, try to login to your Apple account again. If the issue still persists, do a reset of the Mail app through the app settings. Head over to the Start menu and type Mail. From the populated search results, select Mail and click on “App Settings”.
Once the settings menu pops up, navigate to the bottom of the page and click on the Reset button.
Resetting the Mail app will remove all your email account and preferences.
After the app reset, try logging in with your Apple account and probably things should work fine.
Also Read:How to Download and Install iCloud on Windows 10 Computer
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