iPhone's Calendar App

iPhone must have the WORST calendar ever. If you can't schedule a recurring weekday event in one go, that is downright unacceptable. Get another phone.

I'm just stunned that after more than two years, Apple still didn't bring a weekly view to the calendar application.
That's probably the one and only useful view and it's not there.

3rd party products do have that but as Apple doesn't allow them to access the built-in calendar it's totally worthless, nobody wants to maintain 2 or 3 concurrent calendars.
And then they don't sync with iTunes, you have to go through the cloud (horror: YOUR personal infou out there?) or sync with Bonjour. That's extra work.

Should be like the Palm used to be: 1 click sync with everything up to date.

I think the standard calendar is hands down the best. I never use week view on any calendar but that's me. As far as reoccuring week days only I do agree but over all it is the best. The rest are unwanted fluff.

The iphone's built-in calendar DOES have the option to make events recurring. The beauty of the iphone is that there are multiple options of applications for any given task written by third-parties, so you always have other options if for some reason you don't like an app that came with the phone. (However, the applications included with the iphone are all pretty decent.)

iPhone cal is bad for recurring events and the weekly views. Entry of data takes longer than it used to with Palm (but may be it is just a matter of getting used to)

Palm was a breeze! I miss it..

The built in calendar does have recurring events, but what it doesn't have is the ability to schedule the events only M-F, if you select daily you get the event everyday including S&S. So you have to input every M and stop every F, which is a pain but better than inputting everyday.
The only thing I'd like to see is a settings button across the bottom of the screen that would allow me to create multiple calendars from within the app itself rather than in outlook and assign colors of my choice to those calendars. That way at a glance I'd know which events where work, personal, school, etc.

The lack of a weekly view is incomprehensible. I need to see what I am doing this week.
Let's have lunch, how about Thursday?, I don't know I can't see Thursday on my calendar and I am trying to keep some open time this week. Tell you what, call me back on Thursday and I'll tell you if I am open, or hang on I'll scroll through this list.
I hate list views, they give me no sense of how much open time I actually have this week.

My wife has got the iPhone. She need to enter recurring events that recur every 6 weeks. This is not possible. We use google calendar and the goosync application (that seem to create a separate calendar database, not using the iPhones) instead. We  have to enter these events on the PC and sync them to the iPhone. Not good enough!

I find the entering of times cumbersome. Instead of just writing i.e. 10:00 - 14:00 we have to go into Start, scrolling the wheel for hours and minutes, then out, then into End and scrolol borth hours and minutes. Too cumbersome.

Share a lot of your comments about how secure this native apps is, how simple to use and, for example, how simple and transparent it is to sync with the new Yahoo Cal over the air.

Obviously also, the lack of a week view is a shame.

But the worst and this is quite incredible and nobody noticed it, it doesn't use what make the iPhone revolutionary, it doesn't use the finger sliding to go from one month to another ! You have to click on an arrow !!!

Don't regret the absence of a week view, you will probably have to click on an arrow to go from one week to another !

I'd like to sync my iPhone Calendar to Windows Live, my Facebook account events Sync there why can't my iPhone? Also i'd like to schedule events for the last Sunday of the month, or the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month, my Dell palm pilot could do this but the newer iPhone can't?????

My only issue with the built in calendar is that I cannot print it. I have 2 subscribed calendars that I import into the iphone that work nicely but do not show up in my MobileMe calendar. If I could find a way to print my iphone calendar I would delighted.

Too few options for alerts, repeats. Alerts only allow 5 15, 30 min, then 1 hr, 2 hr. Thats it. Not good enough. Why can't it allow customizable like 45 minutes??? Also, repeats are very limited. Only simple weekly, monthly repeats, no complex ones allows. Stupid.

I also agree that the iPhone calendar is the best out there. I use it all the time, in fact, so much that I started working on an app that compliments it. Please download and try it out, its free!
Im already working on new features, one of those is that you can customize your alarms to exactly what you want.
I hope you all like it!

heed
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heed/id378467560?mt=8
released May 30, 2010

Thanks,
Nick

So I was frustrated with the same views from the Apple calendar but I found an app called CalPrint. It uses the existing calendar info and has excellent views of week, day and month and has a pop down so you can quickly go to another day! Icing on the cake is the fact I can now print my calendar directly from my iPhone!! http://mobile.eurosmartz.com/products/calprint.html

I find the iPhone calendar anemic compared to Palm. No recurrence by day, no weekly view, no full-day-on-one-page, no discrimination in monthly view--a day has one dot whether there is a ten-minute phone call or a full day event or 8 meetings or multiple events for work/church/entertainment/school/....

The calendar that came with the iphone was working fine until recently when I found that when I open the calendar the events and todos come up and disssaper immediately. To see the events etc. I have to touch the month option and then the list. Any one know why this is happening and what I can do to fix this?

The only feature I really missed was the alert which goes beep beep very softly and I always mssed. That's why I developed Calendar Alarm.
Calendar Alarm syncs with the iPhone Calendar and adds an alarm with a sound of your choice. The only thing you have to do is start or activate the Calendar Alarm app, after you have synced or updated your iPhone Calendar. Calendar Alarm then sets local notifications, whereafter you can switch to another app. You can also enter your events directly into Calendar Alarm.

App store link  http://itunes.apple.com/app/calendar-alarm/id367803799

The only feature I really missed was the alert which goes beep beep very softly and I always mssed. That's why I developed Calendar Alarm.
Calendar Alarm syncs with the iPhone Calendar and adds an alarm with a sound of your choice. The only thing you have to do is start or activate the Calendar Alarm app, after you have synced or updated your iPhone Calendar. Calendar Alarm then sets local notifications, whereafter you can switch to another app. You can also enter your events directly into Calendar Alarm.

App store link  http://itunes.apple.com/app/calendar-alarm/id367803799

An app I'd like to add to this post is VoCal - The Voice Calendar app for the iPhone that lets you set reminders with your voice. See VoCal in action http://www.facebook.com/gzerovocal

I recently got hooked on Calendat At-A-Glance app. It gives you all the good, reliable things from the built-in cal app in addition to the ability of copying and moving multiple events at the same time. This is a nice addition to the built-in recurring events option. Plus it has a cool, clock-like view. Worth a buck. Here's a link: http://bit.ly/cJq4Bh

Is everyone here who actually likes the default calendar high? It is horrible. On my 1995 Palm I click 2 buttons, yes TWO buttons and enter the appointment and I am done. How many does it take in the standard lame iphone cal?

1. Press home to turn it on
2. Lets count the lock screen and pass code as one
3. Press home if it comes up in another screen
4. Navigate to calendar
5. Press calendar
6. Press + to add an event
7. Press Title to enter name of event and location
8. Press Done
9. Press Starts Ends, and use that sucky roulette chooser.
10. Press Done
11. Press repeat (if its repeating)
12. Press Alert to set alerts
13. Press Done

A minimum of 13 different interactions. And if someone is standing there waiting? Might as well write it all down on a sticky note and slap it on the iphone so you can enter it all later before they die of old age waiting.

Apples Calendar is awful compared to Palm. I bought an Iphone a month ago. It takes 3 times as many steps to do just about anything on the Iphone. Does anyone know of a good calendar for the iphone that is quicker to enter into. Help

Unfortunately, this is the quandary that I and countless others find ourselves in. Apple has created a phenomenal media phone and platform that has every other company trying to mimic it. It all of a sudden became the defacto "smartphone" paradigm.

Unfortunately, it is based on media, browsing, and play. Previously the "smartphone" paradigm was based on PIM (Palm), messaging (RIM), and enterprise (MS), with lots of apps. Those platforms had years of maturity to their strengths. When the iPhone hit everyone went ape over how elegantly it did what it did. Unfortunately, not enough cared that those mission critical functions found in the original smartphones were now little more than afterthoughts.

I bought the Pre+ to upgrade my ancient Treo. Palm, chasing iPhone success, created a new platform which made PIMs WEAKER. WebOS has a little better PIMs than iOS, but they are still a far cry from the powerful and valuable counterparts on old Palm OS.

What is worst, if Apple spent a lot of resources on PIM apps in the next iOS release, it would probably generate little to no buzz. Consumers don't really care if the PIMs are weak. They have FB and Youtube afterall.

What is strange is that nobody has just taken the Palm OS calendar app and duplicated functions with iOS elegance. If I were on iOS, I would pay at least $100 for that. It's mission critical.

Unfortunately, this is the quandary that I and countless others find ourselves in. Apple has created a phenomenal media phone and platform that has every other company trying to mimic it. It all of a sudden became the defacto "smartphone" paradigm.

Unfortunately, it is based on media, browsing, and play. Previously the "smartphone" paradigm was based on PIM (Palm), messaging (RIM), and enterprise (MS), with lots of apps. Those platforms had years of maturity to their strengths. When the iPhone hit everyone went ape over how elegantly it did what it did. Unfortunately, not enough cared that those mission critical functions found in the original smartphones were now little more than afterthoughts.

I bought the Pre+ to upgrade my ancient Treo. Palm, chasing iPhone success, created a new platform which made PIMs WEAKER. WebOS has a little better PIMs than iOS, but they are still a far cry from the powerful and valuable counterparts on old Palm OS.

What is worst, if Apple spent a lot of resources on PIM apps in the next iOS release, it would probably generate little to no buzz. Consumers don't really care if the PIMs are weak. They have FB and Youtube afterall.

What is strange is that nobody has just taken the Palm OS calendar app and duplicated functions with iOS elegance. If I were on iOS, I would pay at least $100 for that. It's mission critical.

Other than commenting on the 3X repeat of your post... LOL.

There is a calendar called Weekly Calendar in the app store. It fixes a lot of what was so lame in the native iPhone calendar, not as elegantly and powerfully as the 10 year old Palm calendar, but so much better than Cupertino's insipid native.

Try Weekly calendar.

And as to the comment that duping the Palm calendar, I wouldn't pay $100, but having purchased $.99 and $9.95/9 apps, I would definitely pay the higher end for a Palm cloned calendar. heck I'd pay double that if the calendar also got rid of the suck wind roulette wheel chooser.

There is a $0.99 app called Calendar Event Pro that add all the repeat and alert functionality you need. And it works with the native Calendar app so you don't have to have a separate calendar.

iPhone/iPod Touch: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calendar-event-pro/id425820450?mt=8

iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calendar-event-pro-2/id443037531?mt=8

Try weekcal on itunes. Better than the standard cal app.