Google Calendar Won't Delete a Calendar? Remove It with WebTools

If Google Calendar won't delete a calendar and just shows "Deleting..." forever, delete it with WebTools instead: sign in, list your calendars, tick the ones to remove and click "Delete Selected". WebTools also finds calendars that Google Calendar doesn't show at all, such as an old subscription, and removes them too.

It's free, and it keeps trying until Google accepts the deletion.

1. Google Calendar's delete gets stuck

In Google Calendar, open the options of the calendar, choose "Settings and sharing", scroll down to "Delete calendar" and click "Delete". Confirm with "Permanently delete".

The options of the Business calendar, with Settings and sharing

You are about to permanently delete Business for everyone who uses it, with Permanently delete

The message "Deleting..." appears, and that's as far as it gets. Thirty seconds later, the calendar is still in the list and the message is still there.

Business still under My calendars, and the message Deleting... still showing

2. Calendars you can't even see

Some calendars don't appear in Google Calendar at all, so there is nothing to click to remove them. Here, GCalPlus finds 52 events in a calendar named Week Numbers, yet Week Numbers appears neither in the calendar list nor in the settings.

GCalPlus listing the calendar Week Numbers

My calendars and Other calendars in Google Calendar, without Week Numbers

3. Open WebTools and sign in with Google

Open WebTools and click "Sign in with Google".

Google Calendar WebTools with the button Sign in with Google

Google asks you to let WebTools see, edit, share and permanently delete your calendars, which it needs to delete them. Allow it with "Continue".

GCal WebTools wants access to your Google Account, with Continue

4. List your calendars

Go to the tab "Delete Calendars" and click "List". It shows every calendar in your account, hidden ones included.

The Delete Calendars tab and the List button

A calendar you subscribed to, such as Week Numbers, is marked "unsubscribe only": you don't own it, so WebTools removes it from your account instead of deleting it. Your primary calendar is marked "PRIMARY - wipe only".

Week Numbers marked unsubscribe only, among the listed calendars

5. Tick the calendars and delete them

Tick the calendars to remove, click "Delete Selected", then "Confirm".

Week Numbers and Business ticked

Confirm Deletion: Are you sure you want to delete 2 selected calendar(s)?

A subscription goes straight away. A calendar Google refuses to delete can take a minute or so: each time Google refuses, WebTools waits a little longer and tries again, until it succeeds. When it's done, you get the message "Successfully deleted 2 calendar(s)."

Success: Successfully deleted 2 calendar(s).

6. Check Google Calendar

Reload Google Calendar: the deleted calendar has gone from the list. In GCalPlus, after a refresh, Week Numbers is no longer among the calendars either.

My calendars with Primary, Birthdays and Tasks, and no Business

GCalPlus's calendars without Week Numbers

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