Outlook calendar color on iPhone

You cannot directly select the calendar colors. They are assigned to synced calendars in a specific order. To get a calendar to be a specific color, you'd need to sync 'empty' calendars to 'use up' the other (undesirable) colors in the list order.

If you feel that one should be able to select calendar colors, you can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

I had to restore my phone and both calendars I was syncing turned yellow. The fix that just worked for me was going to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > my Exchange account and then turning Calendars OFF. That will remove all the yellow calendars. When I turned Calendars back on, they returned to more legible red and orange colors.

The easiest way i've found to change the colours or reset them is from within outlook. If you move them to a personal folder and let the change sync (so effectively all cals are removed from the phone) if you add them back in one at a time they will pick up various colours. There is an order to this which i can't remember...

Note I can't take any credit for this, i read it on a forum around 7 months ago but thought i'd share the knowledge!

I haven't found any way to chose colors in the calendar.
I have 3 calendars syncing. The main/1st calendar "Calendar1" is all red. The other two I have are yellow and blue respectively.

I thought if you only had 1 calendar that it wouldn't be colored. But maybe it's supposed to be red.

as far as I know does any exchangeserver version only support colourcoding with microsoft products. No colourcoding support for apple (also not with entourage...) and therefore iPhone.

They say it will change with the new OSX that, after that maybe iPhone will do so too....

I have two calendars, one that is syncing through MicroSoft Exchange, and the normal iPhone calendar. The colors were red (MS Exchange Cal) and orange (iPhone Cal) since launch day until a couple of days ago.

Now both calendars are yellow, and now the text on my appointments show as white text on this yellow background which is nearly impossible to read. I've tried reseting the phone in hopes that the calendars would go back to the normal colors, but that hasn't worked.

Any ideas how to get back to 'normal'?

Update: Well I'll be....I kid you not, when I was typing this message my colors have now changed back to normal. Red, and Orange have returned...

What may have fixed this for me is that my employer is in the process of changing their mail server address. Currently both old and new server addresses are functioning. I just changed settings to point to the new address while typing the message above, so perhaps that triggered the calendar colors to be re-assigned.

So, if anyone else is experiencing a similar issue, perhaps altering your mail account settings slightly will resolve the issue.

I dont really understand how to get differnet colours at mu iPhone.. I got Windows Vista and Office 2007 please help me how to make it work. I didnt understand what you meaned... I dont know what Exchange ActiveSync is and what do I use it for?

You can change your color in mobile me. Highlight the calendar you want to change and then go to calendar info. You can change color there.

awesome, that worked! thanks!!

My Exchange Cal. turned bright blue as well. I turned of my cal and turned it back on. That worked! Exchange Cal back to red like a want it! Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the tip - that white on light-blue text was impossible to read. Back to red now.