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Calendar in IOS 7.. LETS FLOOD Apple's with complaints

Black Magic said:
To see the week view, why not just put the phone in landscape mode?
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Landscape mode is the next best thing. I find it inconvenient to flip my phone though. It's more the action when dialoguing with someone and discussing which days work best to schedule a meeting, it takes longer to understand what is going on that day.

haruhiko said:
Tapping the Search icon on the top right will display the list of events. Very hard to find.
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Brilliant. Hey, if you press the phone icon on your home screen you can now make phoen calls. :rolleyes:
 
BenTrovato said:
The calendar stinks and here's why.

When you select a day it goes to that day and all I see is a 6 hour window. Before I could press the day and it would list my scheduled appointments at the bottom. I could see I had a lunch meeting and an 8pm call so instantly I could see where I was unavailable. That same task in iOS 7 requires me to have to scroll through the entire day to verify my appointments.

Now if we are ONLY talking about tomorrow, no big deal because I can pull up the list and see it or only have to scroll through one day. However if I want to quickly cycle through Monday Tuesday Wednesday this week next week and the week after it takes much longer and it is tedious. When I'm scheduling meetings with people I am instantly slower at responding for available dates.

You might like the new calendar because the changes do not affect you but it is not better than iOS 6. I'm not saying I want it the old one back, but I'm calling a spade a spade. It is worse and they will should do something about it.
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THIS THIS THIS. The "search.icon.list.view" icon is not a proper substitute. It is a nice addition, but I still need to be able to quickly check if I have any appointments "next Thursday". The new list view isn't as efficient, imo. I just want to ask Apple why it thought changing it so I now have to scroll up, then down through the hours of a day was a better design. Can any of you guys?

This isn't then end of the world. There are plenty of Calendar Apps that provide me with my needs.
 
Tiptizzle said:
If you are searching for an opening on a Friday, you could just click on every friday and see what you have going on....possibly scroll if you had several events. Now you have to click the day, go back to the month view, click the day, go back to the month view, click the day, go back to the month view.
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Why wouldn't you just turn the phone sideways and then swipe to the left to quickly look at the upcoming week?

I think the main issue with the new calendar is that it is SO much more functional in many ways, people just haven't figured out the new ways to navigate.

Yes, I think they could at least allow multiple colored dots on the monthly view for the phone, but outside of that, I LOVE all the changes.
 
option a) cry like babies and "complain to apple" about how they ruined our calendar app. Hopefully some day they will fix it, until then we will continue to cry like babies upset about the changes to the calendar app.

option b) open the app store, download a different calendar app, continue using iOS device completely satisfied and not having to complain every day.

Yep, seems to me that option A was the best solution to the problem too. :rolleyes: hopefully some day apple will fix it, but rather than help ourselves in the mean time, lets just continue to cry about it. For sure the best solution there is.
 
Here's the smart choice: buy Calendars 5, it syncs with iCloud and reminders so you get both in one place. It's an actual calendar you can use and it syncs amazingly well. Apple provides you with a decent calendar, if you want more features than a regular user pony up the $4.99 for the app and get a power user one. It really is worth it.

P.S. Or any other app, free or paid, that allows iCloud syncing. I just find that to be the best one in my personal opinion.
 
Paradoxally said:
Here's the smart choice: buy Calendars 5, it syncs with iCloud and reminders so you get both in one place. It's an actual calendar you can use and it syncs amazingly well. Apple provides you with a decent calendar, if you want more features than a regular user pony up the $4.99 for the app and get a power user one. It really is worth it.

P.S. Or any other app, free or paid, that allows iCloud syncing. I just find that to be the best one in my personal opinion.
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Agreed.
 
MozMan68 said:
Why wouldn't you just turn the phone sideways and then swipe to the left to quickly look at the upcoming week?
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Then I would have to scroll up and down as well to see the entire day. Another swipe to look at the next week and scroll again etc.

It's not a huge deal for me, but when you take away what someone already had, that's when they complaint he loudest.
 
Tiptizzle said:
Then I would have to scroll up and down as well to see the entire day. Another swipe to look at the next week and scroll again etc.

It's not a huge deal for me, but when you take away what someone already had, that's when they complaint he loudest.
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Yep...just forget about all the stuff they added....(and "take away" is somewhat a matter of opinion as not everyone used the app in the same way).
 
There is nothing wrong with the Calendar in iOS 7. In fact, it's better. Who cares that you have to click a day to see what events are in it... you had to do that in iOS 6 too. It makes more sense this way

You click a day, go into day view, then you press the month to go back out to month view. It's fine the way it is. People get upset about ridiculous things.
 
I found my peace from google calendar app.

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I love everything about iOS 7 - except the calendar.

Its awful. They should make it exactly like the old one sans the leather.
 
Wow, so much crying about other people's preferences. It's like people are really lacking in something meaningful to do so they go into threads where someone sees an issue of some sort and wants to discuss it and just continually put down that person and others that have a similar opinion...all because they don't think there's an issue. Talk about petty and irrelevant. :rolleyes:
 
So how is that FLOOD to Apple coming along?

What? no one has done a THING?

Oh that's right. People just come here in mass to whine and not do anything :rolleyes:
 
Apple Needs To Use the Name of The appointment

Black Magic said:
Even that I don't get. If and when I open up my calendar, it goes straight to the today view. Most of the time, I don't have to open it because I can see my upcoming appointments in the notification screen.
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iOS7 now uses the Invitee as the name in the appointment in Notification Center. Now all of my appointments show the same person because that person is my secretary who keeps my manual calendar. Why the change from iOS6?

Does anyone use Invitees in their appointments? Is there some way to work around this?
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break7bg said:
iOS7 now uses the Invitee as the name in the appointment in Notification Center. Now all of my appointments show the same person because that person is my secretary who keeps my manual calendar. Why the change from iOS6?

Does anyone use Invitees in their appointments? Is there some way to work around this?
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Definitely not seeing this behavior but I also don't have a secretary either. I'd be curious how and what tools your secretary is using to manage your calendar? My guess is the problem lies there with Outlook or something. I'm guessing it's a problem local to just you as people would be up in arms on the internet if this was widespread.
 
For me the biggest issue is not being able to see the month at a glance and see the days with "X" amount of dots in them.

Now when I go to the month view I see a single dot. This doesn't tell me how many events I have for the day, let alone give me a sneak peak at what those events are.

I actually find myself hitting the search function from within the app so that I can see a list of all the items for that day.

The calendar app I think they messed up. If you look at the native app on google that allows you view the month and or day. This is how I do it in outlook and I wish I could do it in the native calendar app.

Granted I know we are limited by screen real estate but this still bugs me. If you look at the calendar app on the iPad this is how I like to see it.
 
Black Magic said:
Definitely not seeing this behavior but I also don't have a secretary either. I'd be curious how and what tools your secretary is using to manage your calendar? My guess is the problem lies there with Outlook or something. I'm guessing it's a problem local to just you as people would be up in arms on the internet if this was widespread.
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In iOS6 and earlier, you were able to set up a meeting (calling it what the meeting is, i.e. Interview with Sally) AND invite people to it using the Invitee in the Calendar app. The app would set the appointment up correctly in the Calendar and also notify the Invitee that this meeting is happening. I used this to notify my secretary that I set up an appointment on my own, independent of her scheduling capabilities. Now, this procedure no longer works. It shows her as my meeting in Notification Center rather than the Interview. Using Notification Center allows us to quickly look at the day without having to actually go to the calendar to see the appointment. Frustrating...

But, I guess I may be a small sample of users who actually use the Invitee.

Wow! Just took a look at my Notification Center and I see the actual meetings I have set up! What the **** is going on around here????
 
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