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The Calendar app in iOS has many helpful tools and features that are hidden just below the surface. Here’s how to find them and get the most out of the app.
Apple’s calendar app has been around since the beginning. It’s almost unrecognizable from how it launched, though.
As with everything else, Apple has made it simple to get started with, with increasing depth the farther you look into it. Here’s how to get started, and some features you may not know existed.
How to create a calendar
While some calendars may be pre-set and already set up, you can add and customize your own to be for specific categories (like work, family, and/or specific calendars for individual friend groups).
Here is how you can create and customize your calendar.
- Go into the Calendar app and select “Calendar” in the bottom-center of the screen
- Tap on “Add Calendar” on the bottom left of the screen
- You can choose if you want to add a regular calendar (personal customization), a subscription calendar (by link), or a holiday calendar (choosing a specific region correlating to the holidays).
- Select “Add Calendar” to customize your own
- Give your calendar the preferred name you want for it
- Select which account you want the calendar connected to (Outlook, Gmail, or iCloud)
- Select the color you want the calendar to be corresponding with. This will allow your calendar to stand out from the other(s).
While Apple pre-sets a default calendar for you when first setting up your device, you can go in and select the calendar you want to be your default calendar. This will be the designated calendar (though it can be changed later) that the app will be set to when creating a new event.
- Go into Settings and scroll down till you see Calendar
- Tap on Calendar and select “Default Calendar”
- Select which calendar you want to be set as your default calendar
Creating calendars that connect to specific activities and/or groups is a great way to keep your personal and group schedules clean and organized. The selected colors – which can range from any color you want – picked per calendar will also help decipher which event is in which group.
Created calendars will be found under the account you chose to correspond to the calendar too.
How to share a calendar
Calendar creation does not need to be a solo project, it can also be done through the sending of invitations. These allow more than one person to view and add events to the calendar they are a part of.
Here is how you can create collaborative calendars with others.
- Select Calendars at the bottom of the Calendar app
- Create a new calendar under your iCloud account. No other account will allow you to share it with others via the Calendar app.
- Once created, find it in your lists of calendars under <…….
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