Setting calendar colors on iPad - colors conflicting with iCal and Exchange

i can't get my exchange to work on ical (seems there is a certificate problem), but i can on ipad & iphone

however i have different colors and cannot change the blue one in the ipad

I've I had the same problem, both gmail & exchange calendar in blue on my iPad but blue & red on my iPhone. However I've found a fix 😉

The way I fixed this was to turn off both gmail & exchange calendars in Settings and then go into the Calendar app and add an event, anything - it doesn't matter what. Then go back to Settings and turn on your gmail calendar. Go back to the Calendar app and let it sync. The appointments should hopefully be in blue. Once sync'd, go back to Settings and turn on the exchange calendar. Go back to the Calendar app and the exchange calendar should start to sync - hopefully in red.

When you hit the 'calendar' button in the top left corner of the calendar app you should see 3 calendars listed, something like; On My iPad, Gmail and Exchange (or what ever you've named them).

Same issue - red everywhere else - blue on iPad

Someone mentioning changing exchange Cal colour in iCal made no difference to any of the other devices - iPhone stayed red, iPad stayed Blue etc.

Adam

i'm having roughly the same problem but with a slight variation:

1. when i sync my ipad's calendar to my macbook's ical through itunes, all the colors (i have about ten calendars) match up - nice.
2. BUT when i sync my ipad's calendar to my google calendar through my google account posing as an exchange server, then all the colors are arbitrary - they don't even match up to the google calendar colors.

i'm too afraid to simultaneously sync my ipad calendar to BOTH my google calendar (over-the-air) and my macbook ical (locally) because the potential number of duplicate events is staggering...

so are we all just waiting on a fix? i'm puzzled that the local sync color-matches while over-the-air does not.

I'm waiting for a fix on this as well. In the meantime it's making me a bit crazy.

Played around and found a fix/bodge/workaround (whatever you want to call it)!
Turned off exchange calendar in settings.
Found a public calendar (this one is topical at the moment!!! http://icalshare.com/calendars/3960) clicked subscribe on the page.
Got a pop up asking if I want to subscribe, clicked yes.
Got another popup asking if I wanted to view the events, clicked yes.
This added a new subscribed calendar to my iPad.
Turned on exchange calendar again in settings and viola! It's now red!

You could now remove the subscribed calendar (in settings) if you wish or keep it for now but it will be blue, so I just kept subscribing to the same calendar until I got the colour I wanted then removed the others. May take some trial and error as you don't know which colour you are removing in settings

Hope this helps!

what if you have MORE than one google calendar? will each calendar cycle through a different color?

Thanks Deadthing, worked for me, my exchange appointments are now showing in red, which is the same color that they appear on my iPhone.

Best Regards,

MaclandUK

Cannot be 100% sure as I do not use Google calendars myself but they should do yes.
Whenever you add a calendar it should issue the next available colour to it.

It appears that the problem is with the mobileme calendars.
When added they do not register as using up a colour so any other ones you add use the same ones.
The workaround I suggested just temporarily uses up the blue colour so that when you re-enable the exchange it allocates it red (the next colour in the sequence).

Once a colour has been allocated it sticks with it until you disable or remove the calendar. If you turned it back on it would default back to first available one again ie blue!

I am guessing that apple may have tried to be clever by getting the mobileme calendars to use whatever colours you are using on your mac but are just missing the code to tell the ipad that those colours are taken when you add others.
I am sure they will sort it out sooner or later.

I had the same problem with both my Exchange and MobileMe accounts showing up as Blue on the iPad while they are Purple (Exchange) and Blue (MobileMe) on my Mac.
Easy solution: change the colour of my MobileMe account to green on the Mac and it automatically changes to Green on the iPad. So I now have:
Mac: Exchange = Purple and MobileMe = Green
iPad: Exchange = Blue and MobileMe = Green
I think the Exchange account must be set to Blue by default and I could not see an easy way to change it on the iPad.

Me too

This is very very irritating.

I have my work Mac, my home Mac, my iPhone all sync'd nicely, colours all ok. But my iPad just picks a random colour for my work exchange account. By turning it on and off a few times I have at least got it to be a different colour than my home calendar. It's still annoying.

Apple, please let us set our own colours for calendars on the iPad!

just tried this - no differnce - ended up having to delete the server account from both my macbook pro and my ipad!
have nice world cup calanders now tho...
APPLE STAFF ... IF YOU ARE LISTENING ... CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A FIX ...

I had the same problem. I followed RodneyChinnington's fix and it worked - exchange calendar now in Red. The only thing not mentioned is that the OS prompts you that you've now got a local calendar that may conflict and not sync etc. and asks you if you want to remove it. I opted to keep the calendar albeit with no appointments. I suspect that if you remove it, the exchange calendar will revert to blue however not wanting to upset the status quo I've left it well alone. That now appears in my list of calendars so just need to be wary not to post any appointments to that calendar.

Same issue here. This is the old Apple problem of restricting customisability for the sake of simplicity. In this case, we do need to be able to set the colours for each individual calendar please Apple, because there's no other way of telling the iPad which calendars are the most important and which therefore need to be shown in different colours. If the ones I happen to use the most all get assigned the same colour, as they have been, it gets pretty confusing as to which are shared with other people via Exchange and which are personal. Cheers!