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Apple Calendar sync

Connect iCloud and your two calendars stay in step: bookings taken on Slot’d appear in Apple Calendar on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and time you’re already busy in iCloud stops clients booking over it.

Connecting is optional and off by default. Slot’d has no access to your calendar until you connect it yourself, and none after you disconnect.

Two-way sync is a paid feature — it needs Solo, Team, or your free trial.

Connecting

Apple doesn’t let other apps sign in to iCloud the normal way, so you create a password just for Slot’d. It takes about two minutes and you can cancel it at any time.

  1. Open account.apple.com and sign in.
  2. Go to Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords and create one named Slot’d. Apple shows you 16 letters, like abcd-efgh-ijkl-mnop.
  3. In Slot’d, go to Settings → Calendar → Apple Calendar, enter the email address you use for your Apple ID and paste that password, then choose Connect Apple Calendar.

Slot’d checks the password with iCloud before saving it, so if something’s mistyped you find out immediately. This is never your normal Apple ID password — Apple won’t accept it here, and Slot’d refuses anything that isn’t in the app-specific format.

What syncs

  • Your bookings go to iCloud. Each one becomes an event on your main iCloud calendar (the panel names the one it picked), with the service, the client’s name, and the location if the service has one. Rescheduling moves it; cancelling removes it.
  • Your iCloud events block your Slot’d times. Slot’d checks every few minutes, looks 60 days ahead, and marks those hours busy so clients can’t book over them.
  • Only the busy time is stored, never what the event is. Slot’d keeps the date and time and nothing else — no titles, no guests, no notes. Your booking page has to know when you’re free, and it never needs to know why.
  • Events you’ve marked “Free” are ignored, as are cancelled ones. Repeating events are handled, and an event that runs past midnight blocks both days.
  • Every calendar in your iCloud account counts as busy, including ones shared with you, like a family calendar. Choosing which calendars count isn’t available yet.
  • If you have a team, busy time from iCloud blocks everyone, not just you.

Deleting a booking’s event in Apple Calendar

This is where Apple differs from Google. If you delete a Slot’d booking’s event in Apple Calendar, the booking stays booked — the client keeps their appointment, and the event comes back the next time that booking changes. Cancelling a real booking moves money and emails a client, so Slot’d won’t do it because an event went missing from your phone.

To cancel, do it in Slot’d — see Managing bookings.

(Google works the other way: deleting the event there does cancel the appointment. See Google Calendar sync.)

If you already subscribed to the read-only calendar link in Apple Calendar, remove that subscription after connecting, or every booking shows up twice — once from the subscription and once from the sync.

Disconnecting

Settings → Calendar → Apple Calendar → Disconnect. Slot’d deletes the password and stops reading your calendar, and the busy times it had mirrored disappear. Bookings already written to iCloud stay where they are; delete any you don’t want.

To cut access off completely from Apple’s side, also delete the Slot’d entry under Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords at account.apple.com. Doing that alone stops the sync too — Slot’d will show that the last sync failed until you disconnect here.