[SC-CSTD] Calendar in iOS 16: Rita’s iDevice Advice for November 14, 2022

[Steve Cook]

Calendar in iOS 16:  Rita’s iDevice Advice for November 14, 2022

The Calendar app native to the iPhone is quite functional.
I have found that it is useful to use SIRI to schedule appointments in my Apple Calendar app.
You need to invoke Siri by saying "Hey Siri" and then quickly say something such as "schedule an appointment on my calendar for a particular date and time, plus say the word "Title" and say what the event is going to be.
When you want to schedule a Calendar Event, you can use SIRI.
Just say, Hey Siri, schedule appointment for Monday at 8 AM, titled, "order cat food".
You can share a particular calendar with another person thus you could check your calendar and get notifications as well.
You can set up to 2 alerts, which is useful, such as: a day before and then 30 minutes before.
This is native to the iPhone and you can link your gmail calendar as well.
In the Apple Calendar app, when creating a new event, you can use a picker to select the month, then swipe right to see and hear all the days of the selected month by date.  double-tap on the date that you want.  You can double-tap on the month picker to reveal a year picker, which makes it possible to quickly change the year of your start and end dates.
Time Pickers:
In both the Calendar and Clock apps, when creating events or setting alarms, you can now enter times in the time edit field.  Enter the time as a three or four digit number, with the hour first, followed by a two-digit minute.  Enter this with no punctuation.  For example, if you want an alarm for 7:30, enter 730 into the edit field as soon as you double-tap on it.  Want 9:00? enter 900. Eleven o'clock would be 1100.
After you enter the desired time, swipe right to select either AM or PM.

The Apple Calendar app for your iPhone and iPad is one of the best free calendar apps available, and it has many features you might not be fully utilizing. Did you know that the Calendar app has a hidden list view that allows you to see your daily events while in the month view.
here is a way to view your calendar on your Apple iOS device in a list view menu type configuration. Thus all the calendar text entries that have been made can be listed and you can use voice over to flick right to each date that has delineated text for an event.  You can use a three finger scroll up to navigate continuously through Pages. Days on the calendar that do not have any events will not show up in this list view.
While it might appear that you can only select the today, month, or year view, you can actually see the overall daily events for any day within a selected month.