Bizarrely, getting your Facebook events sync’d on to your phone is a major hassle. It should be easy in this day and age with smart phones and web apps and webcal and caldav and all such cleverness. But it’s not. It’s a pain. Nevertheless, it can be done though, it just requires jumping through a bunch of hoops from FB to Google, to a different bit of Google, to your phone and then to your calendar. Urgh…

  1. In Facebook click on ‘View All’ to see all the events you’re attending. Scroll to the bottom and there’s a handy ‘Export’ link. You’ll need to copy that to your clipboard.
  2. Next, hop over to Google Calendar and under “Other Calendars” on the left click “Settings”. This will pull up a page that lets you subscribe to other calendars. Click “Browse Interesting  Calendars” and add the Facebook link you copied using the “Add by URL” option under “Tools” on the right.
  3. Now fire up your iPhone and head over to http://m.google.com/sync/ in Safari. You might need to log in to your Google account. Once you’ve done that you should see “Sync to iPhone” option, click that and you’ll get a list of your Google mail accounts and, more importantly, your calendars. Once of them should be “<your name>’s Facebook Events”. Tap it to subscribe.
  4. Now come out of Safari and start the Calendar app. Click the “Calendars” button, wait a moment, and you should be given the option of displaying your Facebook events in your calendar along with all the other stuff.

And that’s it. Never again forget an event you’ve said you’ll attend. Yay!