Oh please, please, buy someone to replace your contacts app. It's the absolute worst application that's been neglected for so long. I've been using Macs since powerPC and I think that's about when the contactd app was last updated, if then.
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Apple Acquisition Hints at Upgraded Calendar App on iOS 19 or Beyond
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Please don’t add holiday calendars like a certain unnamed large company that I can’t remove. Also don’t check my contacts and auto-add birthdays.
I just want the federal holidays without all of the extraneous stuff. For example, I don’t want all of the religious holidays, even for my religion.
Siri Suggested events get a reminder 2 hours AFTER the event and this can't be changed lol. It's already screwed up.
Apple, for the most part, gets small companies no one has really heard of. Nothing unusual about this one.
No. How did you come to that conclusion?
Do you treat everything in life like it's black and white? You don't even know yet whether apple's implementation of Mayday Labs' tech will be genuinely intuitive.
It does.
Select event, Edit
Select travel time
Travel Time: On
Starting location: (pick one, i usually just Current location), but then…
Choose “based on location”. It will auto adjust as you move around.
Your alerts then become “15min before travel time, at start of travel time, etcc.). Keep in mind, this “travel time” assumed you are already in, or approaching, you mode of travel! Not “ok I gotta grab the keys, my hat, a snack, water bottle, tie my shoes, and walk down three flights of stairs, across the parking lot, uphill, in the snow, both ways”.
Be sure you also have your Maps preferred route options chosen: “avoid tolls, avoid highways” (or not)
It also will auto-select a starting location based on a prior appt location that day (although this isn’t always exact and correct, but it sometimes helps).
Enjoy!
That likely wouldn't work out the way you hope - Fantastical is too fiddly for the average iPhone user (most of whom are adequately served by the existing app). Best case, if Apple bought it, is they include a handful of key features from it into the existing Calendar app, and leave Fantastical up as a separate app. This is fairly unlikely. Worst case is they buy it, use a few features or not, and discontinue the current app entirely - as I said, likely not what you want. Take a look at what happened with Dark Sky. Was one of the best weather apps, Apple bought it, used their (very good) back-end tech to make the WeatherKit SDK/API for developers, but removed the actual app (it inspired a few things in the default Weather app, perhaps, but it's not really anything like Dark Sky was).
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Didn't know there were reminders for ALL DAY events.
Because they MUST!
Carl Icahn demands it.
apple cannot write apps lmao.
They needed to acquire Photomator, now a calendar app
They needed to acquire Photomator, now a calendar app
I've pretty much turned Siri off on everything. I'm running my stuff 2008 style. Works better for me.
It would be nice if calendar and reminders worked like motion.app or better FlowSavvy, but with all the benefits of being a native App. Integrate reminders, give them duration, urgency and other features, introduce time blocking, make tasks reschedule via AI. Introduce a smart day view as on Structured. Introduce task planning as in ChatGPT. There is so much you could do to make organizing life easier.
I’m just waiting for the day the AI is deeply entrenched in all of iOS that it randomly starts sending your private photos, emails and texts to random people in you’re contact list.
Your boss gets your embarrassing photos and a few messages you sent to friends about them
Your family gets some too
Your colleagues get your private finance related emails
Your friend gets a text that was supposed to go to another friend
😂😂😂
Your boss gets your embarrassing photos and a few messages you sent to friends about them
Your family gets some too
Your colleagues get your private finance related emails
Your friend gets a text that was supposed to go to another friend
😂😂😂
When it comes to a calendar, I've been using Informant Pro since about 2010...when I had an Android phone (my first iPhone was in 2012...absolutely hated that Android).
I've tried almost everything else- I just want a calendar that shows me an effing calendar like one that hangs on the wall that I can see enough of my appointments, events, etc...all color coded by category with a tag- without having to create a separate calendar for each category.
Informant seems to be the best one out there and it works between phone, iPad, and Mac without a problem. The only feature missing is a shared calendar.
I've lost count as to how many other calendar apps I've tried and just did not like.
I've tried almost everything else- I just want a calendar that shows me an effing calendar like one that hangs on the wall that I can see enough of my appointments, events, etc...all color coded by category with a tag- without having to create a separate calendar for each category.
Informant seems to be the best one out there and it works between phone, iPad, and Mac without a problem. The only feature missing is a shared calendar.
I've lost count as to how many other calendar apps I've tried and just did not like.
and it informs all of your friends that you're dead, because you booked a GP appointment
I have never fully understood, or seen documentation fully explain, the difference between enabling travel time and having an alert “at start of travel time” vs having an alert at “time to leave” which is available whether travel time is enabled or not.
