How can I avoid that my wife’s iPad sounds an alarm every time I add an event to a shared calendar in iCal? I share my work calendar on iCal with my wife (synced with iCloud). Every time I add an event to that calendar, my wife’s iPad plays a sound. Because I live in Europe but work for a company in the US, this often happens in the middle of the night for us, and the pings wake her up.

Is there a way to disable these sound notifications on her iPad?
This can be done in the Notifications settings.

How to adjust notifications for iOS Calendar

On the iPad:


Go to Settings
Select Notifications
Select Calendar
Select Shared Calendar Changes
Select Sounds
Select None


One can also adjust several other types of notifications as well or even completely disable notifications for the Calendar app.

Another setting to look at is Do Not Disturb
This can be set manually or on a schedule.

From the settings:


  When Do Not Disturb is enabled, a moon icon will appear in the status bar and incoming FaceTime calls and alerts will be silenced.