Comments on: iPhone Calendar

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:22:35 +0000

If you imported it on to your iPhone then you should still have the original on your PC, right? Did you sync the iPhone back to the PC periodically? If so, I believe the calendars should have stayed in sync. But I don’t use a PC or Outlook calendar, so I’m not sure.

By: Patrik

Patrik — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:46 +0000

I got my Iphone stolen. Imported my Outlook calendar on Iphone and added new events. Now I desperately need to find the calendar on my PC. Is the calendar on the PC or just on the Iphone?

By: SeattleSoxFan

SeattleSoxFan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:41:16 +0000

Using a Mac doesn’t fix the problem of a snooze ability on the phone. Even if I had a Mac and corporate email and calendars were coming from Outlook, I still can’t use snooze because the mulitple alerts only exist for items created on hte phone or in iCal.

This is not a useful device for business.

By: Timmothy

Timmothy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:25:08 +0000

These issues are driving me crazy. Also driving me crazy are the comments from the Mac people. “Just use a Mac” isn’t feasible for most. If anyone is complaining its because they are using a PC and Mac’s teams don’t care nor bother to make their products PC friendly. Personal usage is mostly PC which is most of the people who have or use Iphone. I think it’s sad that without the advantages of other people doing apps this phone is pretty useless.

If anybody finds a good iphone calendar and/or task app. Please let us know! Thanks.

By: Raymond Flournoy

Raymond Flournoy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:46:52 +0000

I have an event that repeats monthly, but not the same day of the month. It repeats the 2nd Thursday of the month. I also have an event that repeats the 3rd Saturday of the month. iCal doesn’t allow for that type of repeat.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:57:43 +0000

You can only add up to 2 alerts via the iPhone interface. Using iCal on your Mac you can add more.

By: Leeza

Leeza — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:26:28 +0000

I see that it is mentioned that alert option will now allow you to also add a Second Alert, for example I want to be reminded 2 days before , than 1 day before and than 30 mintues before. I want all three alerts. can I do that?

By: Esme

Esme — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:15:29 +0000

I love my iPhone but it is definitely not a replacement for my PDA or even my clamshell cell. The calendar is useless to me bec of the time it takes to enter an event and because it doesn’t give you the option to select times that are not in even 5 minute increments. Many of my family’s appointments and classes start or end at odd times like 9:52 or 2:48. I don’t want to round these times up or down! This is a mini-computer, I should be able to enter whatever time of day I want. And I don’t have a Mac or use iCal…why should I have to, just to get my iPhone to do what every PDA out there already does on its own?

By: AM

AM — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:02:22 +0000

thanks hp, I was casting around for an app, taking everyone’s complaints about iphone calendar at face-value

regarding DSFs odometer wheels: going back or forwards by 10min increments is faster than spinning to get there.

with measured taps I find it’s quick enough..

By: rosenz

rosenz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:01:55 +0000

hp: You can definitely do that, just use iCal on your Mac and you can create something that repeats every X weeks. Then sync with your iPhone.

By: hp

hp — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:25:39 +0000

Is there any way to get something to repeat EVERY 4 WEEKS? Monthly is NOT the same. I don’t understand why the calendar function arbitrarily chooses 1 week or 2 weeks only, and doesn’t let the user choose?
“Monthly” does not help, for example, with birth-control reminders, since those are done by weekly cycles, not random 30 or 31 or 28 day cycles – and that is a big deal for everyone involved.

If anyone’s found a way around this “monthly” vs. 4-week dilemma, please let me know. Thanks.

By: Wickwho

Wickwho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:57:13 +0000

I personally use Google’s calendar through the browser (classic view?). The repeat options and different views are nice, it has color coding, you can see personal and work calendars simultaneously as well as hide them to view one at a time. My favorite thing about Google’s reminders is the text message reminder.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:25:04 +0000

Betsy: Do you have a Mac as well? If so, you can set those up in iCal and then sync with your iPhone to bring them in.

By: Betsy Sauther

Betsy Sauther — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:11:08 +0000

What I find that sucks is that I have meetings monthly that occur on the 3rd Tues, or the 2nd Mon. and I cannot set up repeating events with reminders, which screws up my ability to transition from longtime Palm Treo usage to the iPhone. I see there is an app called SaiSuke which might be helpful but haven’t been able to try it yet.

By: GT

GT — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:18:12 +0000

DSF – I agree, being a long term user of Windows based mobiles and prior to that palms – I love my Iphone but hugely dissappointed in the Calendar and Task functionality for the same reasons as you specifically the amount of silly screens that you need to use to enter one meeting is hopeless. Have tried addtional apps to see if I can fix but no luck yet…. As a result I have gone back to a paper calendar YUCK.

By: DSF

DSF — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:52:57 +0000

Let me echo many of these comments: I bought the iPhone in part because I wanted to combine phone and PDA, but the Calendar app is UNUSABLE if you actually need to run your business around it. I absolutely hate those little odometer wheels for time (cute, but awkward and slow.) With my old Palm, I can enter an appointment by picking a name out of my contacts, set colors and icons and a reminder in 10-12 seconds. I can’t break a minute to do the same operation with the iPhone (important if you have someone standing there or waiting on the phone). Worst part is that it appears that Apple isn’t allowing 3rd party developers into the calendar functions. Come on Apple, either fix it or get out of the way.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:00:28 +0000

Filip: Only List, Day and Month are options. But what about the List view? That should fill any need that a Week view would.

By: Filip

Filip — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:04:50 +0000

Is there any possibility to view the calendar in a week (7 days) view? Or can it be added to the current available view types?

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:36:17 +0000

I add my class schedule from the desktop…I choose custom from the repeat menu and then choose weekly, it then allows you to pick the days you want to repeat on. I then put the end date on the last day of the semster.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:03:26 +0000

I am very disapointed with the iPhone calendar,. I have yet to find one that I can use on the iPhone that allows a moth per view with a differeing details/icon of each days events. Every one of my days has a dot on it… but as a shift worker I need to know which shift it is that I am working on that day at a moth per view. Please fix.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:37:59 +0000

kwame: You may want to consider setting the event in iCal on your Mac (or equivalent on a PC) and then just syncing. You only have limited options in the iPhone interface, but a ton of options in iCal.

By: kwame

kwame — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:22:17 +0000

Maybe there is a way to do this that I am overlooking- but I wish there was more control over repeated events. For example, what if you have a task that happens 3 times a week (like entering a class schedule). Right now you have to add new event for each of the days- as you only have to option to repeat every week, and no option so select other days in the week.

By: herecomestrouble

herecomestrouble — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:21 +0000

I agree with Stephen. How could any company, much less Apple, market a gadget with so many shortcomings. I bought one this past weekend, never imagining that it didn’t have a way to search old records in the calendar. What a joke! This thing is a toy, not a tool. Palm’s products have had these features for years. Unfortunately, their new gadgets keep breaking. Another Palm is not an option. I’m debating returning my iPhone before my two-week return period is up. But I’m not sure what to replace it with.

By: rosenz

rosenz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:07:43 +0000

Doghair: You have many more options in iCal on your Mac. So I would just set up these birthday reminders there. You can set it for as many days before as you like. Then it should sync with your iPhone. You can also choose an option to get an email sent to you as a reminder, which may come in handy in these cases.

By: dOGHAIR

dOGHAIR — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:01:38 +0000

Is it possible to add options to the Event Alert?
The most warning I see is “2 days before”
I want weeks of warning for my families birthdays so I can have time to send them a card etc.
Overseas mail takes a little longer than 2 days!
Thanks

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:45:41 +0000

The lack of a user friendly was to enter and manage appts on the iphone is a huge weakness. I’ve got a Palm OS PDA with Datebk6 on it that has been around for years and makes data entry a snap through templates and icons. It would be great if someone could write an app to allow for a more robust calendar.

By: Rick Wagner

Rick Wagner — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:35:22 +0000

One of the crummy things that the new version 2.0 lacks is a way to customize the ALERT sound that the iPhone uses to remind you of an event. I currently haven’t found an OS-X based solution for this.. There is however a PC based 3rd party application to assist in this.

Sadly, the alerts are very quiet and hard to get your attention. I wish Apple would consider updating this portion of the iPhone software quickly.

By: GoGo

GoGo — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:17:51 +0000

Too bad it doesn’t tace over the colors from Outlook and you can not specify the Time Alert by minutes..

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:08:45 +0000

When you have a calendarentry with a telefon Nr. Is there a possibility to make a telfoncall directly from the calendar like you can do with a Palm Handheld.