Apple HomeView is a 7-inch smart display with Calendar built in — and no App Store. Per Apple, it syncs with the iPhone or iPad you pair with it, so the whole job of getting your kids' games onto it is getting every team, league, and school schedule into one calendar on that iPhone. Here's the setup you can do today, whether you have one kid on one team or three kids on five apps, and an honest note on what Apple hasn't said yet.
Updated October 15, 2026, from Apple's published materials. HomeView ships November 13; we'll revise this page the week it arrives.
Understand how a calendar reaches HomeView at all. Apple HomeView has no App Store, so there's no Schedule Caddie app, TeamSnap app, or Google Calendar app to install on it. Calendar is one of its built-in apps, and Apple says HomeView syncs with each user's iPhone or iPad — a person's calendar shows when HomeView recognizes their face and their paired iPhone or iPad is on the same Wi-Fi and was recently unlocked. In other words, the Calendar app on your iPhone is the doorway. Everything below is about getting every schedule through that one door.
Merge everything in Schedule Caddie. Paste every team app's calendar link into Schedule Caddie (free — our per-app guides cover 20+ platforms), and upload the schedules that have no link: the school PDF, the photographed practice sheet. You get one merged calendar covering every kid, plus an email whenever a time changes.
Copy your Schedule Caddie feed link. In Schedule Caddie, open Subscribe & Share. The All Events card at the top is your default feed — the whole family in one subscription. Tap Copy next to the Subscription URL.
Subscribe to it on the iPhone you will pair with HomeView — and choose iCloud. Subscribe to your Schedule Caddie feed in the Calendar app on the iPhone you'll pair with HomeView: open Calendar, tap Calendars, then Add Calendar → Add Subscription Calendar, paste the feed address and tap Find, give it a name and color, and next to Account choose iCloud, then Done. Apple's support guide says a subscription stored in iCloud appears across all of your devices.
Check it shows in the Calendar app on that iPhone. Open the Calendar app, tap Calendars at the bottom, and you should see the Schedule Caddie feed under Subscribed — make sure its checkbox is on. Tap the info icon to give it a color that stands out from your personal events. This is the calendar HomeView reads from, so if it looks right here, your prep is done.
When HomeView arrives: look for Calendar. Apple lists Calendar among HomeView's built-in apps and names a Calendar face. Apple's developer guidelines also describe one household Modular face that can hold up to four widgets, and say that if someone places a Calendar widget on it, that person's calendar appears there for everyone. Which calendars on your iPhone make the trip is the part Apple hasn't spelled out — see the note below. We'll update this step the week HomeView ships.
As of October 15, 2026, Apple hasn't said whether subscribed (webcal/ICS) calendars or Google and Outlook accounts show on HomeView, how often it refreshes a calendar, or whether there's a household-wide family calendar beyond the Modular face widget. Everything on this page about getting a schedule onto HomeView is based on how HomeView reads the Calendar app on your paired iPhone, per Apple — and we'll confirm it on a real HomeView the week it ships.
When you add a subscribed calendar on an iPhone, it can be stored in iCloud or only on that phone. Apple's support guide, Add calendar subscriptions in iCloud, says that when you add a calendar subscription to iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you can see it across all of your devices — and to sign in to iCloud with the same Apple Account on all of them. Choosing iCloud is the one choice that keeps the feed in the widest possible set of places, which is why it's the account we recommend for the iPhone you pair with HomeView.
I don't have a HomeView yet — can I set this up now?
Yes, and it's worth doing now. Steps 2 through 5 put the whole family's schedule into the Calendar app on your iPhone, which is useful on its own and is the same place HomeView draws from, per Apple. Nothing on this page changes when the device arrives except the last step.
A game moved but my iPhone still shows the old time
That's iOS being lazy, not the link being broken. iPhones refresh subscribed calendars on their own schedule — often several hours, sometimes up to a day — and they never notify you when an event changes. Schedule Caddie's change-alert emails fire when the source changes, so you know today even if the calendar on the phone (and whatever reads from it) catches up later.
The school calendar is a PDF, and nothing can subscribe to a PDF
Correct — this is where Schedule Caddie's free upload comes in. It extracts the dates and shows you a review grid before anything is committed, then the school days ride the same merged feed as every team, so they land in the same iPhone calendar.
Events show up doubled on my iPhone
You're probably feeding the same team twice — once as a direct subscription and once inside the merged feed. Pick one route per team: either the app's own link straight into Apple Calendar, or the Schedule Caddie merged feed, not both. To remove the extra one: in Calendar, tap Calendars, tap the ⓘ next to the subscription, and choose Delete Calendar. (A subscription that was saved to the device rather than iCloud shows up under Settings → Apps → Calendar → Calendar Accounts instead.)
Will my spouse see the same calendar on HomeView?
Apple describes HomeView's calendar as personal: each enrolled person sees their own when recognized. A subscription only lives on the device (or iCloud account) that added it, so the simplest option is for each parent to subscribe to the same Schedule Caddie link on their own iPhone. The other route Apple has described is the household Modular face widget — we cover that on our HomeView family calendar page.
We can't promise that yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. What Apple has said: HomeView's Calendar comes from the iPhone or iPad you pair with it, and a subscription stored in iCloud appears across all of your devices. What Apple hasn't said: whether subscribed (webcal/ICS) calendars are among the ones HomeView displays. The setup on this page is correct whichever way that turns out, and we'll confirm it on a real HomeView the week it ships.
No. Apple's specs list a fixed set of built-in apps (Calendar is one), some apps that come across from your iPhone, and supported third-party audio and video apps. There's no on-device way to install a calendar app, which is why this guide routes everything through the iPhone's Calendar app.
Apple's store page says HomeView requires an iPhone with iOS 27.2 or later, or an iPad with iPadOS 27.2 or later. Apple also says each person who wants their own content on HomeView needs an Apple Account and to be added as a member of the shared home in the Home app, up to six people.
Apple hasn't described calendar alerts from HomeView, so we won't guess. What we do know is how subscribed calendars behave on the iPhone itself: they update silently — the event moves, nothing tells you it moved. Schedule Caddie watches the same feeds and emails you exactly what changed: new time, old time, which kid, which team. That email is the part no wall display replaces.
Per Apple, both the tabletop and wall-mounted models are $299 (U.S.), pre-orders opened October 13, 2026, and availability begins November 13, 2026. Apple also notes it is not sold in the European Union.
No — we're an independent, free family-schedule tool. We have no inside knowledge of HomeView; everything here comes from Apple's published product pages, support guides, and developer guidelines, and we'll revise it against the real device.
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