iOS 18.0 Adds Calendar Icon Next to ALL All-Day Events!

UPDATE: I just realized I can change the size of my font so now everything fits even better on my calendar. There is also an extra line available again. I don’t mind the symbol as much now, but it is still so very unnecessary.

It’s just the general font size overall. I had mine on the largest apparently. I was adding things to my control panel and I noticed the font control, so I added it and when I did I realized my font was on the largest size so when I made it smaller everything got smaller and now there is much more room on my calendar. I wish you could change the font size on individual apps though because now if I want more room on my calendar everything else has to be smaller too. Its the oblong white block with Aa on it named text size.

smw104 wrote:

I just came here with the same complaint. It looks like garbage on my iMac. Who on earth thought this was a good idea??

I believe it was added because you can now have reminders on the calendar as well. The icons tell you whether or not the thing is an appointment or a reminder. Reminders have an empty circle icon. And birthdays have the present.

Woolley4U wrote:

I despise this new strange calendar!!

Tell Apple:

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Or use a different calendar app.

This latest 18OS update has added a calendar icon on every day of my calendar which is totally distracting and not necessary. As I have now read and looked into there is currently no way to fix this. I will be going back to previous operating system update until apple changes this idea. Hopefully they will listen and remove this unwanted idea.

Winters1986 wrote:

THIS!!!!! This is horrible for me!!! I use my calendar for all kinds of things and not having a visible second field to show in the month view is horrible!!! Why would they take a feature like that away?! I pray they fix this in future updates because needing to click every event to see the location field notes is driving me crazy!!!

You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:

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Meanwhile, there are hundreds, probably even thousands of other calendar apps available.

Lisetrain wrote:

But I don’t like that it’s inconsistent and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. Some are pill shaped events while others are rounded rectangle… and it’s not a difference between annual occurring or weekly or non-repeated events.

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dcgthetfordvt wrote:

Count me as one more longtime fan of Macs who'd really love the option to turn off the icons added by Sequoia to the beginnings of all-day events. It's a visual distraction and a waste, at least as far as my workflow is concerned, of screen real estate.

Let people who like the icons use them, and let people who don't like them turn them off!

Tell Apple:

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Or use a different calendar app.

I agree! I hate this symbol! I don’t need a calendar symbol to tell me I’m on my calendar. It takes up valuable space. I also despise that the font or symbols are larger now so less of what I enter on the calendar is visible. I think it’s at least four less characters are visible now. I really hope they will fix this or at least give the option to turn off that egregious calendar symbol! I’ve never complained before not even when an update long ago took one of the calendar lines away. It used to give you five lines per box on your monthly view of calendar. For years now it’s been downsized to four which I didn’t like, but this is just beyond awful!

mlb32704 wrote:

Per my initial post, I’ve already done that. My experience in submitting feedback to Apple Support over the past 30+ years is that they really don’t care. They don’t really pay attention to feedback submitted by customers.

There are numerous examples that show they do. For example, last year when they change the way you select watch faces, there was a concerted feedback campaign. Apple changed it within a couple of months (maybe less).

These Discussions seem to yield greater results. There is strength in numbers voicing issues indirectly back to Apple, as well as Users coming up with workarounds to issues that Apple won’t address.

Apple doesn't read here so complaining here, while perhaps cathartic, is unlikely to effect any real change.

The reality is that Apple does whatever it wants to, and if it decides to change this functionality, they will on their terms and timing. It is what it is.

That is the way Apple has always been.

dtang7d wrote:

On top of this annoyance, All-day entires now no longer show the location in the List view. You have to click into each event individually to view the location. Doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this either!

You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:

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clairegor wrote:

Yes, what "genius" did this? Bonus points for design over practicality...daahh

That's a matter of opinion. Yours is different than Apple's.

why not make it possible to turn it on of off in calendar preferences?

Because Apple generally doesn't do that. You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, there are hundreds, probably even thousands of other calendar apps available.

A2_ol wrote:

I to absolutely hate the ISO 28 calendar update. First time in 25 years I must find another calendar this is nuts.

Well, I’ve never liked the built in calendar, so I’ve been using WeekCalendar for - YES - 25 years. I had it on my Palm Pilot, then my Palm Treo, and then in 2007 I moved with it to the iPhone. My calendar's first entry actually goes back to 1997, when WeekCal imported it from the Palm built-in calendar.