{"id":342413,"date":"2017-06-01T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/31\/amazon-echo-icloud-calendar-support\/21|22119471"},"modified":"2017-06-01T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:39:00","slug":"amazon-echo-supports-icloud-calendars-ahead-of-rumored-siri-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/amazon-echo-supports-icloud-calendars-ahead-of-rumored-siri-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Echo supports iCloud calendars ahead of rumored Siri speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Echo speakers give you voice control over calendars from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/04\/amazon-echo-google-calendar-update\/\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/18\/now-amazon-echo-can-access-your-outlook-com-calendar\/\">Microsoft<\/a>, but there&#8217;s long been a notable exception to that rule: Apple. Thankfully, Amazon just filled that gap. The internet giant has quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=202151220\">added support<\/a> for linking Alexa to your iCloud calendar, letting you add events or check appointments that should promptly show up on your iOS devices and Macs. You&#8217;ll need to switch on Apple&#8217;s two-factor authentication, but you&#8217;re otherwise off to the races. It&#8217;s a big deal if you&#8217;re heavily invested in Apple&#8217;s ecosystem, although the timing is definitely&#8230; convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/dims-shared\/dims3\/GLOB\/crop\/1400x800+0+0\/resize\/1600x914!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/85\/http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/7f42933dfb20da2b90a3bc597aa5c8dc\/203597056\/0303_amazon-1-ed.jpg\" \/>Amazon&#039;s Echo speakers give you voice control over calendars from Google and Microsoft, but there&#039;s long been a notable exception to that rule: Apple. Thankfully, Amazon just filled that gap. The internet giant has quietly added support for linking&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-342413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}