Is there anyway to change this? I can't find any options that do this... I am very used to monthly calendar layout that starts on Sunday rather than Monday.
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iPhone Calendar - To start on Sunday instead of Monday
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Mines starts on a Sunday.. Now this is when you go into the calendar and look at the MONTH view correct??
How do you set it? Mine starts on Monday and yes, I am referring to the Month view.
Change your region.
Settings > General > International > Region > ...
e.g. UK starts on Monday
e.g. US stars on Sunday
Settings > General > International > Region > ...
e.g. UK starts on Monday
e.g. US stars on Sunday
I believe if you go to settings->general->international->region format it will change what day the week starts on depending on which region you select. Given that your week doesn't start on a Sunday right now I'm assuming that you're in a country where this is the norm?
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As has been mentioned, it's dependent on your region settings, which is really lame because ... the region setting controls several unrelated things. It controls the calendar week starting day, the weather.app icon (Fahrenheit or Celsius), and the google search country (e.g., google.com vs. google.co.uk). Rather than letting us choose what settings we want for each of those things, we're stuck with an over-simplified, dumbed-down region setting.
I'd love to have Celsius displayed on the weather icon (I live in Japan and have gotten used to Celsius) but I want U.S. Google searches. Impossible, thanks to the stupid regional settings system.
As has been mentioned, it's dependent on your region settings, which is really lame because ... the region setting controls several unrelated things. It controls the calendar week starting day, the weather.app icon (Fahrenheit or Celsius), and the google search country (e.g., google.com vs. google.co.uk). Rather than letting us choose what settings we want for each of those things, we're stuck with an over-simplified, dumbed-down region setting.
I'd love to have Celsius displayed on the weather icon (I live in Japan and have gotten used to Celsius) but I want U.S. Google searches. Impossible, thanks to the stupid regional settings system.
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As has been mentioned, it's dependent on your region settings, which is really lame because ... the region setting controls several unrelated things. It controls the calendar week starting day, the weather.app icon (Fahrenheit or Celsius), and the google search country (e.g., google.com vs. google.co.uk). Rather than letting us choose what settings we want for each of those things, we're stuck with an over-simplified, dumbed-down region setting.
I'd love to have Celsius displayed on the weather icon (I live in Japan and have gotten used to Celsius) but I want U.S. Google searches. Impossible, thanks to the stupid regional settings system.
Another one, US settings using miles for distance in maps, UK settings uses Km, despite us using miles here...
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As has been mentioned, it's dependent on your region settings, which is really lame because ... the region setting controls several unrelated things. It controls the calendar week starting day, the weather.app icon (Fahrenheit or Celsius), and the google search country (e.g., google.com vs. google.co.uk). Rather than letting us choose what settings we want for each of those things, we're stuck with an over-simplified, dumbed-down region setting.
I'd love to have Celsius displayed on the weather icon (I live in Japan and have gotten used to Celsius) but I want U.S. Google searches. Impossible, thanks to the stupid regional settings system.
I fully agree with you.... it's so limited to customize to our own needs in terms of settings.
By the way, my settings are defaulted UK, I've changed to US and yeah, it's appearing what I wanted now. Thanks a lot....
But then, my weather setting is now F instead of C. :S
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How hard could it be, right? Leave the current system intact for the 99% of iPhone owners who don't care, and add a "Customize" profile down at the bottom of the list that lets people pick and choose exactly how they want things to appear. I can't imagine how that would take any longer than a couple of days - max - to implement and test.
Unfortunately, since most iPhone users in the U.S. (and more importantly, the engineers in Cupertino!) font need this functionality, it will probably never happen. I'd love to be proven wrong, though!
How hard could it be, right? Leave the current system intact for the 99% of iPhone owners who don't care, and add a "Customize" profile down at the bottom of the list that lets people pick and choose exactly how they want things to appear. I can't imagine how that would take any longer than a couple of days - max - to implement and test.
Unfortunately, since most iPhone users in the U.S. (and more importantly, the engineers in Cupertino!) font need this functionality, it will probably never happen. I'd love to be proven wrong, though!
the US calendar starts on a sunday
the UK calendar starts on a monday (applies to UK-like countries such as Australia)
...which is really annoying because I prefer the sunday format (both sides of a week have a holiday - I like to be balanced) and confusing...
you can change this in the regional settings but that will screw up the phone numbers and whatnot... and you have to change everything and everything else will be changed. if you change it to US, the date will be Month-Day instead of Day-Month. that to me is more annoying than the sunday/monday thing. (not to mention the weather in ºF).
so i guess unless apple brings up this customisation i have to live with it
the UK calendar starts on a monday (applies to UK-like countries such as Australia)
...which is really annoying because I prefer the sunday format (both sides of a week have a holiday - I like to be balanced
) and confusing...you can change this in the regional settings but that will screw up the phone numbers and whatnot... and you have to change everything and everything else will be changed. if you change it to US, the date will be Month-Day instead of Day-Month. that to me is more annoying than the sunday/monday thing. (not to mention the weather in ºF).
so i guess unless apple brings up this customisation i have to live with it
I've lived overseas in Japan and other for well over 20 years. I still feel Fahrenheit. Understand Celsius, but don't feel it. Weird.
I wish that we could set temperature, date/time, calendar, language, all independent of each other. That would be very convenient.
Re how to change the Calendar layout
Thank you to the person who suggested the region area change to fix this
probllem.
If you choose the region of Australia (on the iphone) , you get the wrong calendar layout for australia ie Mon to Sun. Australia uses the SUN- SAT
Like the UK . Many uses could make appointment mistakes by simply looking
at the calendar layout set for the australian region. I now have it set for the
UK and its fine.
Maybe APPLE can fix this Mistake for Australia.as i'm sure many users would appreciate it.
Regards to all Dave.
Thank you to the person who suggested the region area change to fix this
probllem.
If you choose the region of Australia (on the iphone) , you get the wrong calendar layout for australia ie Mon to Sun. Australia uses the SUN- SAT
Like the UK . Many uses could make appointment mistakes by simply looking
at the calendar layout set for the australian region. I now have it set for the
UK and its fine.
Maybe APPLE can fix this Mistake for Australia.as i'm sure many users would appreciate it.
Regards to all Dave.
Calendar settings
I live in South Africa and our calendars also start on Sunday, running through to Saturday, but the South African settings start on Monday ... how the ...?!
We have a choice for languages under South Africa (Afrikaans, which is my mother tongue) but then the calendar starts on Monday ... NO!
So, I've settled for the US setting, no Afrikaans, but the calendar starts on Sunday ...! I can't understand this nonsense!
Apple, please allow us to determine ourselves when we want to start the week in the calendar ... PLEASE?!
I live in South Africa and our calendars also start on Sunday, running through to Saturday, but the South African settings start on Monday ... how the ...?!
We have a choice for languages under South Africa (Afrikaans, which is my mother tongue) but then the calendar starts on Monday ... NO!
So, I've settled for the US setting, no Afrikaans, but the calendar starts on Sunday ...! I can't understand this nonsense!
Apple, please allow us to determine ourselves when we want to start the week in the calendar ... PLEASE?!
3rd party app solution
I live in the US and haven't discovered a Region setting for starting the Calendar week on Monday which preserves the US defaults for everything else like units of measure, phone numbers, etc.
I decided to purchase a 3rd party app called "Week Calendar" that let's you customize the first day of the week and a bunch more settings. Plus, I really like the option to show appointments (albeit small but very readable) in the monthly view.
The other thing that bugged me about the native Calendar app was the Recurring appointment options. Week Calendar gives you the flexibility of iCal (example: 3rd Monday of the month).
It seamlessly integrates and syncs with the iPhone's calendar. In all, and excellent application! Give it a try.
Happy calendaring!
I live in the US and haven't discovered a Region setting for starting the Calendar week on Monday which preserves the US defaults for everything else like units of measure, phone numbers, etc.
I decided to purchase a 3rd party app called "Week Calendar" that let's you customize the first day of the week and a bunch more settings. Plus, I really like the option to show appointments (albeit small but very readable) in the monthly view.
The other thing that bugged me about the native Calendar app was the Recurring appointment options. Week Calendar gives you the flexibility of iCal (example: 3rd Monday of the month).
It seamlessly integrates and syncs with the iPhone's calendar. In all, and excellent application!
Give it a try.Happy calendaring!