Can't change calendar colors!?

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Can't change calendar colors!?

Exchange just auto-picked my work calendar to be the same as my home calendar. How do I change it?

All the eye candy in the world and the app can't visually separate distinct calendars?

iPad, Other OS

Posted on Apr 4, 2010 12:18 PM

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Answer 1

blewis_13 Author

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Apr 4, 2010 12:44 PM in response to blewis_13

Well that's really frustrating. It's a basic feature.

I tried adding several dummy calendars to my desktop to try and fool iPad to select another color for the Exchange calendar. It's INSISTING on Blue. All the added calendars from my desktop (synced via MobileMe) honored their colors I selected.

So far my desktop, iPhone, and laptop have all selected Red for my Exchange calendars (which is what I want it to be - I guess I got lucky). But the iPad, magically, wants it to be blue.

Why must their be little annoyances like this on a $700 device?

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blewis_13 Author

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Apr 4, 2010 3:40 PM in response to blewis_13

After 1.5hrs of randomly adding Exchange calendars and randomly changing calendar colors, I have successfully tricked my iPad into coloring my Exchange calendar Red.

That was annoying.

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Apr 4, 2010 7:24 PM in response to blewis_13

Hey, I would recommend using google calendar. It has different colors plus you can use google sync to sync it straight to you apple ipad. Its easy and fast. You can just open you browser make the necessary changes and it'll update it on your ipad. It retains the same colors as the colors you choose on google.

www.google.com/calendar
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#ical

These sites should help you get off the ground. Gl
- kalpith

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Apr 15, 2010 6:44 AM in response to Kalpith R

That is good advice, love Google calendars. the only problem is that the colors of your Google calendars and the calendars on your iPad will not match. That is, if I set a calendar to orange on the Google calendar, it will appear blue on my iPad, if i set a calendar to green on Google, it will appear red on my iPad, and so on.

It would be nice to either have my calendars match colors between devices. This could easily be accomplished by manually changing the color of the calendars on the iPad calendar app.

Is this available?

If not, what is the way that a user can contact apple and request a feature?

Jordan.

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Answer 5

Apr 30, 2010 5:45 AM in response to blewis_13

I completely agree. I need to ability to match the calendar colors with the colors I all ready used on Google Calendar

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Answer 6

May 1, 2010 8:29 AM in response to blewis_13

I am not sure if this reflects your situation, here's my setup. I have an Exchange calendar, and two Mac iCal calendars. The Exchange and one iCal Mac calendars were both blue. As I could not change the Exchange default color I went to the iCal on a Mac and changed the Mac iCal color (high light the calendar and pick File, Get Info).

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