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Turn your phone sideways? You don't get to see a month at a time but the phone on the right looks too cluttered.I have an iPhone SE 2020, and am very disappointed in the built-in Calendar function. It is neither intuitive nor easy to use mainly because:
1) While one can customize colors (i.e. "Home" = Green; "Work" = Blue; "Medical" = Red; etc.) in the iCloud calendar, those colors do not then correlate and show up on the monthly "Calendar" view, defeating the purpose somewhat.
2) ALL the calendar dots, regardless of event type, are grey only, which is absurd and confusing. The specified colors do show when opening/looking at the days specifically, but that does not help me know if I have a doctor's appointment (red), work meeting (green) or the plumber is coming (green) next Thursday, etc. It would really help if the little dots were color-coded to match the original entry color.
3) The "US Holidays" calendar is ridiculous. It has every single "special" day known to Apple, apparently. It helps me to know what Federal Holidays are approaching, but I really do not want to have "Earth Day" and "April Fool's Day" etc., also show up on my calendar. I have had to turn off the entire "US Holidays" calendar; it is just far too cumbersome and aggravating.
4) Between the non-color-coded schedule and the over-abundance of "holidays" circa 2/3 of every month has grey dots under a date, and I have no idea, at a glance, what that grey dot signifies.
5) I called Apple CS, normally great, and they said there was nothing I could do..., "That is just how the software is designed...".
QUESTION: Are there third-party, preferably free, good iPhone calendar apps that people here have actually used and can recommend, before I go download some to try out? Is the "Google Calendar" below, for instance, a good one? It looks like it has color-coded dots even on the month?
This is the Apple iPhone SE 2020 calendar I dislike, with all grey-only dots:
View attachment 1598702
I am looking for something like this:
View attachment 1598703
Turning the phone sideways doesn't solve the issue I am looking to solve, which is to hopefully replace the all-grey event dots iPhone calendar with a calendar which is somewhat similar but has colored event dots in the month view.Turn your phone sideways? You don't get to see a month at a time but the phone on the right looks too cluttered.
Damn, you found out that Foo made the iCal app?I have an iPhone SE 2020, and am very disappointed in the built-in Calendar function. It is neither intuitive nor easy to use mainly because:
1) While one can customize colors (i.e. "Home" = Green; "Work" = Blue; "Medical" = Red; etc.) in the iCloud calendar, those colors do not then correlate and show up on the monthly "Calendar" view, defeating the purpose somewhat.
2) ALL the calendar dots, regardless of event type, are grey only, which is absurd and confusing. The specified colors do show when opening/looking at the days specifically, but that does not help me know if I have a doctor's appointment (red), work meeting (green) or the plumber is coming (green) next Thursday, etc. It would really help if the little dots were color-coded to match the original entry color.
3) The "US Holidays" calendar is ridiculous. It has every single "special" day known to Apple, apparently. It helps me to know what Federal Holidays are approaching, but I really do not want to have "Earth Day" and "April Fool's Day" etc., also show up on my calendar. I have had to turn off the entire "US Holidays" calendar; it is just far too cumbersome and aggravating.
4) Between the non-color-coded schedule and the over-abundance of "holidays" circa 2/3 of every month has grey dots under a date, and I have no idea, at a glance, what that grey dot signifies.
5) I called Apple CS, normally great, and they said there was nothing I could do..., "That is just how the software is designed...".
QUESTION: Are there third-party, preferably free, good iPhone calendar apps that people here have actually used and can recommend, before I go download some to try out? Is the "Google Calendar" below, for instance, a good one? It looks like it has color-coded dots even on the month?
This is the Apple iPhone SE 2020 calendar I dislike, with all grey-only dots:
View attachment 1598702
I am looking for something like this:
View attachment 1598703