Calendar Tips

How to manage calendar alerts on your iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013 a 4:30 pm

The iPhone and iPad are both great tools for keeping you on task and getting you organized. Not only can you create your own calendars, you can also customize alerts and when you receive them. If you aren't sure how, follow along and we'll help you get up and running in no time.

How to set a default calendar on your iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 a 5:27 pm

If you've created your own calendars on your iPhone or iPad, there's probably one that you create more events on than the others. Your Calendar app will default to the generic calendar but if it's not the one you want, you can easily change it to default to the one you use most. This makes creating events much quicker since you don't have to toggle calendars when you create each individual event or appointment.

Not sure how? Follow along.

How to add and delete calendars on your iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Jan 14, 2013 a 3:35 pm

The built-in iOS Calendars app can keep track of all your events and appointments, all in one place. But it doesn't have to keep them all in the same actual calendar. If you prefer to keep your work life and personal life separate, or to have a specific calendar for kids activities, or a special vacation, or for anything else, it's easy to setup. Since each calendar gets its own color, and you have the ability to hide or show individual calendars, it's a great way to stay organized and stay sane at the same time.

Additional calendars are easy to setup, and if you ever stop needing them, they're easy to delete as well.

How to set default calendars, alert times, sync, and more on iPhone or iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 a 6:38 pm

iOS allows you to set not only your default calendar, but the default alert time and sync period as well. Having good defaults can make it much faster to add new events and appointments, especially if you often add events to the same calendar, and with the same alert requirements. You can also set how far back your iPhone and iPad will sync those appointments and events, so you can keep handy just your most recent entries, or entries going back for months. You can toggle automatic time zone shifting, and even turn off invitation alerts if you need a little less notification in your life.

How to create, view, update, and cancel calendar events using Siri

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Nov 30, 2012 a 9:37 am

Since Siri is meant to be your personal assistant, it only makes sense to have it schedule and manage your meetings and events on your iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPod touch 5, iPad 4, iPad 3, or iPad mini. Asking Siri to create a Calendar event only takes a few seconds and is much faster than creating them manually and entering all the data yourself. Whether you need Siri to schedule a meeting, tell you what's on the agenda for the day, or move an existing meeting to another time to make room for a conference call or a power nap, Siri will help make sure your schedule is set.

How to create a calendar event with Siri
How to update a calendar event with Siri
How to cancel a calendar event with Siri
How to view and check your Calendar with Siri

How to create, view, update, and cancel calendar events using Siri

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Jun 28, 2012 a 1:27 am

Since Siri is meant to be your personal assistant, it only makes sense to have her schedule and manage your meetings and events. Asking Siri to create an event only takes a few seconds and is much faster than hand entering them. Whether you need her to schedule a meeting, tell you what's on the agenda for today, or move an existing meeting to another time or date, she'll help keep you on task.

How to create and accept calendar invitations on your new iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 a 10:58 am

Your new iPad is a great way to stay organized and focused on the activities and events that matter to you most. The built in Calendar app has a lot of great features and tools to help you create, edit, manage, and share your schedule, including event invitations.

Daily Tip: How to set your iPhone or iPad calendar entries for different time zones

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Jan 20, 2012 a 12:55 am

Taking a trip and curious how to set your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad

The calendar app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch allows you to change the time zone for any event or meeting with just a few taps. Instead of trying to add and subtract time from your own time zone, just set those specific events or meetings for the time zone they're going to occur in.

Calendar will use whatever time zone your clock settings are set to by default. While this is fine in most scenarios, you also have the option of setting time zones on individual entries.

Daily Tip: How to quickly access birthdays with Siri

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011 a 1:28 am

Need a fast way to find out about birthdays? Not a problem. With the iPhone 4S you can avoid faking a distraction, jumping out the window, racing to the car, and slamming down on the accelerator, Homer Simpson-style, because you forgot that special someone's special day. Assuming you have the birthday recorder in your calendar, all you have to do is ask Siri.

Daily Tip: How to map a calendar event location

By Brian Tufo, Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 a 2:11 pm

Trying to figure out how to get your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad Calendar event locations to show up in Maps? If you will be traveling a lot being able to click on your Calendar and quickly pull up Maps is very helpful and can make all the difference in getting to your destination. This easy to follow tip will show you exactly how you can do that and get to where you need to go without worry!