Years ago when you made an appointment on your Google Calendar and you had SMS notifications enabled, you would receive a text on your phone of that appointment .
This was the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion.
For some unknown reasons in 2015, Google decided to no longer offer SMS notifications for appointments on your Google Calendar. Bye Bye SMS notifications.
It was a "Why did you do that?!" moment.
But not to fret. The world is not ending....and you can still receive SMS/text messages of any appointments on your calendar.
You just have to go a round about way of setting it up.
Basically we forward the calendar appts to Gmail.... then forwarding the Gmail as a SMS to your phone.
We'll be working on the Desktop version as it's the easiest working while in Gmail.
We'll be working on the Desktop version as it's the easiest working while in Gmail.
Phase 1
First, we want to have Google Calendar send notifications to Gmail.This is straightforward.
1. Inside Google Calendar, click Settings (it's the gear in the upper right)
1. Inside Google Calendar, click Settings (it's the gear in the upper right)2. Now, scroll down to your calendar and click 'Share with specific people'
3. Here you want to enter your email address.....
4. Right below you want to Add Notification.... and using the drop-down menu, select email... and then select the number of days out you want the notification to occur.
Okay... so now you're set for having Calendar forward notifications to your email. Now lets log into your Gmail where we'll forward the email you receive from Calendar as an SMS message to your phone.
Phase 2
1. Within Gmail, select settings (The gear in the upper right corner)
2. Click 'Settings' (ironic I know)
3. To add a forwarding address, click 'Forwarding And POP/IMAP'
4. Click 'Add A Forwarding Address'...
5. In the box here is where you enter your email address OF YOUR PHONE.
AT&T 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net
Cellular One 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Sprint 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
US Cellular 10digitphonenumber@email.uscc.net
Verizon 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com
Follow the prompts to complete adding a forwarding address.
6. Select 'Filters And Blocked Addresses' (we have to create a filter first in order to forward it)
7. Scroll down to the bottom and click 'Create New Event'
(This lets Gmail know to filter and fwd any email you get from this address)
9. Click 'Create Filter'
10. In this window is where the magic happens..... you have several options here, but the most important is the 'Forward To' line. Use the drop down to select your forwarding phone email (We created that in Step 5)
11. Click 'Create Filter' and that's it. Your appointments that are in Google Calendar will be forwarded to Gmail. There Gmail will forward it to you phone as an SMS/Text message.
You may want to test it out. Create an appt within Google Calendar and open Gmail to view the email from calendar-notification@google.com.
In a few minutes you should receive a text of the appointment. Trace the steps again if you don't get the text.
Originally published 2/18/20
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