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Calendar in IOS 7.. LETS FLOOD Apple's with complaints
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I can still use the invite with out a problem. With both my work, gmail and outlook.com address. When it goes out the user will either see the email with the meeting attached or if they are on the phone they will see the email and a notice in the inbox of the calendar that they have a request pending.
This still works fine for me.
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Yep, a month full of dots. Make sure you fill this inhttp://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Yup, some of the items in my calendar are reminders or items that will show me busy or not busy. Hence the dots only bug me lol.....
Tap on a day, tap on an event, tap edit. There is a menu that says "invitees." Is that what you are looking for?
It sucks because they removed the daily overview in the month view. This overview of the entire month with red dots under every single day is completely useless. Also they removed the useful calendar integration in the notification center where it told you what events are up on the upcoming day, but now it just tells you THAT there are events but not what they're about. You can't even jump straight intro the calendar app from there. I hate how it just shows me the next 6 hours when I lay in bed at night and want to quickly get an overview of my upcoming day.."oh great, a big empty timeline during the next 6 hours of night, so cool, thanks Johnny!"
This is a screen shot of my note 3.
It is the best mobile calendar I have had. Apple should learn from this.
That text break up would annoy me to no end. It has no rhyme or reason and looks like it was designed by someone that doesn't know how to read . Why would they just break one letter off and put it on the next line like they did with Election Day so it reads "Electio" on one line and then "n day" on the next when there appears to be plenty of room for the n on the previous line making it an actually readable and easily decipherable event. Looks to be an epic fail to me.
No, that's not the best. It's just as bad in the opposite way. We are used to something much better than this.. in an iOS 6.
Umm, that screenshot from the Note is painful.
But I dislike the calendar update. Aesthetically, it's pretty plain looking in my opinion. As for function, I agree with the complaints regarding the removal of the preview pane from the month view. I used this often, and the replacement is not terribly useful and requires additional steps. I also don't like that months all run together now and are scrolled through vertically. There's no pause in the scrolling, so it requires more work/attention to move to the next full month. And the bit about having an 'event' the next day in the notification center, without saying what it is? Why?
But I dislike the calendar update. Aesthetically, it's pretty plain looking in my opinion. As for function, I agree with the complaints regarding the removal of the preview pane from the month view. I used this often, and the replacement is not terribly useful and requires additional steps. I also don't like that months all run together now and are scrolled through vertically. There's no pause in the scrolling, so it requires more work/attention to move to the next full month. And the bit about having an 'event' the next day in the notification center, without saying what it is? Why?
I suggest to everyone that receives a survey email from Apple to complain about whatever bothers you about an iPhone or iOS. I just took the survey and I get the impression that Apple already knows about the problems. Keep complaining.
I'm pretty adjusted to the iOS 7 calendar and really like it.
My calendar during the work week is full so preview panes aren't too helpful. I use the magnifying glass constantly and scroll though my day and even several days forward and past for meetings. It's very useful.
The vast majority of meetings are generated from someone's desktop usually because it's easier due to the number of people, attaching documents, and meeting room reservations aren't integrated. But the events are pushed to our calendars where it's so convenient to accept or decline and set alerts.
I've read people complaining about words like "November 5th", "tomorrow at 2:30 pm" in texts and emails being hypertext links. I find this feature very convenient. If I see a date/time in a text or email exchange I find it very convenient to tap and add it to the calendar with a reminder or even set a small ad hoc meeting at someone's desk or a common unreservable cut out room. If the calendar event was created from a hypertext embedded in an email the calendar event even has a link back to the original document which is very convenient to review the doc that caused the meet. I don't know if that's actually a new iOS 7 feature but I use it often.
I find the calendar really helpful for my medium to very high usage needs. There's probably a few features that might help me even more but I'm satisfied now that I've used it a while and adjusted some habits. This version of the calendar is far from "useless".
My calendar during the work week is full so preview panes aren't too helpful. I use the magnifying glass constantly and scroll though my day and even several days forward and past for meetings. It's very useful.
The vast majority of meetings are generated from someone's desktop usually because it's easier due to the number of people, attaching documents, and meeting room reservations aren't integrated. But the events are pushed to our calendars where it's so convenient to accept or decline and set alerts.
I've read people complaining about words like "November 5th", "tomorrow at 2:30 pm" in texts and emails being hypertext links. I find this feature very convenient. If I see a date/time in a text or email exchange I find it very convenient to tap and add it to the calendar with a reminder or even set a small ad hoc meeting at someone's desk or a common unreservable cut out room. If the calendar event was created from a hypertext embedded in an email the calendar event even has a link back to the original document which is very convenient to review the doc that caused the meet. I don't know if that's actually a new iOS 7 feature but I use it often.
I find the calendar really helpful for my medium to very high usage needs. There's probably a few features that might help me even more but I'm satisfied now that I've used it a while and adjusted some habits. This version of the calendar is far from "useless".
The calendar app is the thing I hate most about iOS 7. Was going to get Fantastical (recently got it for Mac and love it) but Fantastical 2 is just around the corner as a separate purchase so please hurry and bring it out!
It would be nice if they simple added an option to use a preview pane on month view. Using the search button is a workaround, but it's not the same. I will probably just find a different app that works better.
This is a perfect example of WHY they changed it on the iPhone (note that the larger screen on the iPad does show previews).
You can't even see the previews it is showing on your other example...really? Single word previews?
Agreed the one word previews carry such little info they are pointless and look very sloppy. If Apple had implemented such a thing people would then be moaning about that.
By far not a convenient way of doing various things that used to be very simple, like (for example) going through and looking through all Fridays over the next few moths to see what your availability is like and if a particular time is free on all of them.
I still find it better than just dots at least it's indicate some part of the reminders. Also in landscape mode the app works pretty clean and flawless comparing with default calendar. Pic attached.
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My advise: Try CalenGoo
After reading this thread, being a rather heavy user of calendar and planner, I will suggest the dissatisfied with the native Calendar app to try CalenGoo. It's very flexible, and can be set in very many ways. I have used CalenGoo as my only calendar app for some years and I really impressed and satisfied. (I have no economic or other involvement concerning this app, but just want to share my very happy experience with it. I have, however, had good experience with some limited contact with the developer, who has been open-minded about suggestions and also provided very useful support when needed on some occasions.)
After reading this thread, being a rather heavy user of calendar and planner, I will suggest the dissatisfied with the native Calendar app to try CalenGoo. It's very flexible, and can be set in very many ways. I have used CalenGoo as my only calendar app for some years and I really impressed and satisfied. (I have no economic or other involvement concerning this app, but just want to share my very happy experience with it. I have, however, had good experience with some limited contact with the developer, who has been open-minded about suggestions and also provided very useful support when needed on some occasions.)
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Do you use it with Google or another email service? If another what service?
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