Apple Please drop everything and do some proper ML and ask my wife to turn off the alarm when its public holiday or when there is vacation or day off next day in calendar. Thx
Starting with iOS 18, the Calendar app on the iPhone will feature integration with the Reminders app, according to information obtained by AppleInsider.
The report claims that iPhone users will be able to schedule and organize reminders directly within the Calendars app, without needing to open the Reminders app. Reminders are expected to be visible within the Day, Week, and Month calendar views.
The change will extend to the Mac with macOS 15, the report says.
The same publication recently reported that the Calculator and Notes app will also be integrated on iOS 18, and said that the update will include new Safari features such as "Intelligent Search" and "Web Eraser." We recently recapped iOS 18 rumors on a per-app basis, with new features also expected for Apple Music, Messages, and more.
Apple is expected to announce iOS 18, macOS 15, and other software updates during its WWDC keynote on June 10. The first betas of iOS 18 and macOS 15 will likely be made available to members of Apple's Developer Program immediately following the keynote, and the updates should be widely released in September.
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All I want from iOS18's calendar:
1) For it to update the widget quicker (or at all, sometimes) when I make a change on my laptop
2) For the widget not to delete current appointments once they're 15 minutes' past the start-time
1) For it to update the widget quicker (or at all, sometimes) when I make a change on my laptop
2) For the widget not to delete current appointments once they're 15 minutes' past the start-time
Oh yeah. And that.
I loved Now up to Date and Contact. Fantastical kinda reminds me. Back in the day, I coordinated a whole ad agency with those apps, before CRM had its own name. **** I'm old.
Remember when they used to be merged, yeah it was a good thing they were separated. But still, it was a good idea to see an overview of all your tasks. I can’t believe it took them this long to add it back. Sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel is pointless.
Honestly the calendar feature I am most hoping for is when I highlight text on the web or anywhere that looks like 11/02/2024 4pm @ Central Cafe that iPhone would let me share sheet or underline create calendar entry. I'm hoping the on-device intelligence could get just a little better to save me having to copy/paste and type all that in several times when I have a conference/event list.
Lol, I wanted to grumble at first, like, how much can you write about rumors, please stop but then I remembered the name of the website I'm on. Keep going, guys, thanks for the content 
I suspect this too... these apps have been simple and elegant for a long time... now with AI and a slew of other features and merges.... I think they will bloat them.
Excellent, for the Keynote. I wonder how long it will take to make it work the way people expect?
I see these app updates and I am reminded when I tried so hard to use the built apps, for years and years, hoping someday they would get close to third party apps. Apple, drips out 1 or 2 features and the hope continues. Then one day you just give up. Like highlighting text in Apple Notes.
Just as Outlook is breaking away into pieces to then be reintegrated inside of teams as sub-apps
Not sure what's going on there. Multiple times a day, I say something like "add hot dogs to the grocery list" into Siri and it does exactly that. It's one of like five things Siri can actually do well almost all the time.
If you have a reminders list called Groceries I'm pretty sure Reminders will offer to categorize it for you. If not, go into the list, tap the little Info icon upper-right, and edit the "list type" so it's a Groceries list. That should do it.
What I would love to see is an app that when landscape is the calendar, and portrait is reminders. To be fair, reminders are literally a flagged calendar entry...
Edit: how did this get an "angry" reaction? Wow.
Edit: how did this get an "angry" reaction? Wow.
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Yep, this was my experience in a way. Less about missing features and more about giving up.
Initially, I wished for better integration, but eventually ended up moving to Fantastical (I don't subscribe - the free version does absolutely everything I need) and kept using Reminders. A mostly-fine experience.
Then my Reminders stopped syncing properly - it messed up and every device I had on iCloud showed different reminders, often bringing up years-old reminders that were long completed and worse, missing or losing ones I had set in the past. And each of my four devices (mini, MBP, iPhone and iPad) showed a different set of lists and reminders in the Reminders app. It was like a crazy methed-up server was syncing things behind the scenes.
I spent hours at the Apple Store talking to "geniuses", then moved to phone support (many hours) and when all possibilities had been exhausted after 2 weeks of talking to the same person on about four different occasions, she advised me they were "escalating" my problem to engineering, as it was obviously a big deal/issue - that was something everyone from Apple agreed upon.
I never heard from anyone again, even when I tried to follow up using my case number. That was the first time ever in decades that I felt Apple's support let me down. I could not get any further and started researching options. I ended up replacing Reminders with TickTick. It was a minor learning curve, but it's an excellent app and has a very good set of features for my needs, including calendar integration if you pony up for the paid version.
I did NOT want to leave the Apple ecosystem, but for me, it was the lack of fixes and their lack of wanting to look into my specific issue further. No more Calendar app and no more Reminders app for me.
I've used Fantastical for so many years as my default calendar app that I didn't even realize this wasn't a standard feature. Talk about low-hanging fruit.
If you want Outsuck, use Outsuck.
A mail program should do mail. A calendar program should do calendars. A reminder program should do reminders. And a contacts program should do contacts.
AND THEY SHOULD NEVER, EVER, EVER BE THE SAME PROGRAM.
There is ZERO crossover. There should be no integration. It's already excessive with Apple trying to grab data from one into the other.
Relax, dude. We're all sharing our opinions, and yours is as valid as others or mine. I personally agree, only partially, with you: a mail app has nothing to do with reminders and they should stay separate. But even if the calendar and reminders only optionally share data, I think many people would find that pretty useful, saving them from creating a reminder in the reminders app, and then creating the same reminder on the calendar.
Anyways, Apple has already made a decision, and we'll know it during the next WWDC, wether we like it or not.
Ordinarily, I agree; things get bloated and laggy when they over-integrate (Outlook 👀). But Calendar and Reminder feel to me like ZERO crossover; I feel like they've always have been the same dataset, perhaps even using the same database tables. Apart from the day/week/month display grid (which Apple does NOT do particularly well) and the invitees field, I curate the same data and get the same outcomes. I've always been annoyed that I have to go to two different apps to see everything in a timeslot.
not for regular use obviously but many mathematical / scientific jobs required a fully traceable record of calculations and the new notes app will record those, including full mathematical notation apparently, and keep it for your records: IF YOU WANT.
Reminders and Notes are have become excellent apps, Calendars is a terrible mess compared to alternatives like Fantastical and I would LOVE for a full overhaul that increases the readability, the ease of entry etc. so that I can fully return to using Apple stock apps as the 3rd party apps are pricing themselves into the stratosphere.