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Peter Franks

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The ridiculousness of this is I've been trying to work this out for years.

The event comes up, sometimes the night before, but disappears 20 minutes after the start time?

I want it to stay on the lock screen from start to end time 1-6, or even the whole day, Why is that so impossible to achieve?
I stupidly thought the 'all day' toggle meant it would stay on, in the widget all day.

So then I made the end time later to see if that works? Nothing does.

All these notifications disappear far too soon and go to 'No more events today'.
Has anyone sussed this out, I'm sure I asked this same thing years ago?
 
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Unless I am wrong, the function is meant to briefly show a notification on the lock screen. It isn't meant to be permanent (as in constantly visible). You have to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to see all notifications.
Thanks, ‘Swipe up from the bottom’? It’s not that type of notification. That won’t show calendar entries. Im talking about the ones that show up top next to date on lock screen that will say ‘No events today’ when there’s no calendar entry.

Wouldn’t say they’re briefly shown, sometimes the calendar event is shown the day before.
If there is a diary entry, it should remain for the time allocated start to end surely?
‘No events today’ I get, which is there all the time, but when there is a calendar entry?
 
I think the OP is referring to a Calendar Widget.

If it is, OP, is it the Lock Screen Widget or the Home Screen Widget?

Having asked that, I'd say those widgets do what Apple sets them to do and may change with any update.

There may be third-party calendar apps that have widgets that are somewhat configurable.
 
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I think the OP is referring to a Calendar Widget.

If it is, OP, is it the Lock Screen Widget or the Home Screen Widget?

Having asked that, I'd say those widgets do what Apple sets them to do and may change with any update.

There may be third-party calendar apps that have widgets that are somewhat configurable.

It's the one on lock screen next to the date up top, as pic shows here.

You can see the time it was set for and the end time, 13:00 - 18:00, but within 20 mins it had gone to 'No more events today'. I've been trying to work this out for literally years, but it never seems to do it. I thought the 'All day' toggle may have been relevant, but that didn't do it either. Thanks for any help


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I think the behavior is out of our control.

I don't know where your calendar is hosted. Mine are at Google. I don't use the Google Calendar app but I do have it installed…and the accompanying lock screen widget doesn't behave that way…it shows the current active event.

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I think the behavior is out of our control.

I don't know where your calendar is hosted. Mine are at Google. I don't use the Google Calendar app but I do have it installed…and the accompanying lock screen widget doesn't behave that way…it shows the current active event.

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I only every use the standard iOS Calendar one that appears on the lock screen. Never used anything else.
 
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