How to bring in your Google Calendar and Google Tasks

Open Settings, tap Google Calendar, then Connect Google Calendar, and sign in to Google. Choose Busy, Family or Off for each calendar, and To do or Off for each task list. Kid Pickup reads them every 15 minutes and whenever you open the app, and never changes anything in Google.

A mom pins a sticky note to a wall calendar marked with soccer, dentist and music stickers, while her son ticks a checklist by a stack of books and her daughter holds up a permission slip

Where to find it

Settings
Google Calendar
Connect Google Calendar

Who can do this

Parents and guardians, each for their own Google account.

Step by step

Open Settings. Settings opens from your own picture at the top left of the screen.
Tap Google Calendar, then Connect Google Calendar, and sign in to Google and allow it.
Under Calendars, choose for each one: Busy (only when you’re busy, never what it is), Family or Off. Your main calendar starts as Busy; the rest start Off.
For Family, tap the children under Who are these for?, then Show to family.
Under Task lists, choose To do to bring a list’s tasks into your To do list, or Off.
To check for changes straight away, tap Read now. To stop, tap Disconnect.

What happens next

Busy: a pickup nobody has yet that lands during one says you have something on, and Who’s free? counts you as busy then. Nobody sees what it is.
Family: each event goes on the family calendar for the children you picked, for everyone who sees the whole calendar. Nobody has to claim it.
Disconnecting, or switching a calendar off, takes away what came from it: busy times, family events still to come, and its tasks.

Good to know

All-day events aren’t brought in.
A task ticked off in Google is ticked off in Kid Pickup too.
To share a team’s Google calendar that isn’t yours, follow it by link instead.

Checked against Kid Pickup 2.0 on October 28, 2026. Something look different on your phone? Tell us and we’ll fix the guide.

FAQ

Questions about this

Does Kid Pickup change my Google Calendar?

No. It only reads it, every 15 minutes and whenever you open the app, and never adds, changes or deletes anything in Google.

Can the family see my work meetings?

Not on a Busy calendar: Kid Pickup keeps only when you’re busy, not what the event is. Only a calendar you set to Family shows its events to the family.