Subscribing to circle events

When you join a circle, you can subscribe to its events so they automatically appear on your family calendar.

How it works

1. Open a circle from Settings > Circles
2. Tap Subscribe
3. All upcoming events from that circle are added to your calendar
4. New events posted to the circle appear automatically going forward

What you get

• Circle events show up on your Home screen alongside your own events
• Schedule changes (time, date, cancellations) update automatically
• If the circle has upcoming events, you'll see them immediately after subscribing

School circles: smart filtering

School circles pull events from the NYC DOE calendar and automatically filter them for your family in two ways.

By importance — Every DOE event is classified into one of three tiers:

• Critical — Schedule disruptions like days off, half-days, early dismissals, and holiday closures. These always show up because they affect attendance.
• Relevant — Events your family might want to attend: open houses, picture day, parent-teacher conferences, testing dates, enrollment deadlines, and back-to-school nights.
• Informational — Administrative items like chancellor visits and board meetings. These are hidden by default since most families don't need them.

By default you receive Critical and Relevant events. You can adjust this from the circle detail page if you want to see everything — or only the schedule disruptions.

By grade level — DOE events that target a specific school level (elementary, middle, or high school) only appear for families at matching schools. If your child is in 3rd grade at an elementary school, you won't see "Parent-Teacher Conferences for High Schools" cluttering your calendar. Events that apply citywide — like snow days and holiday closures — go to everyone.

Hiding events you don't need

After subscribing, you can hide individual events that aren't relevant to your family. Hidden events won't appear on your calendar but can be restored anytime from the circle detail page.

Unsubscribing

Tap Unsubscribe on the circle detail page. You can choose to keep events already on your calendar or remove them all. You'll stop receiving new events from that circle either way.

Tips

• Subscribing is separate from joining — you can be a member of a circle without subscribing to its events
• You stay subscribed even if you switch to anonymous visibility
• School circles often have the most events — but smart filtering means you only see what matters to your family