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Calendar colors keep changing

I haven't seen a question about this posted since iOS 5 came out (and most seem to come from the last decade).

I'm running iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and my iPad 2. I use both iCloud calendars and I subscribe to a number of Google calendars, as well. This problem only manifests itself with the subscribed calendars. I'm glad that you can finally customize the color of a subscribed calendar, but your choices don't stick. I want my work calendar to be red, my travel calendar to be blue, my personal calendar to be green, and a fourth orange. I have set these by clicking on the Calendars tab at the top to show the list of calendars, then tapping Edit, and then setting the colors.

I don't know when it does this, but it will always change the colors to something else. And it's not consistent between the iPhone and iPad. So, for example, the work calendar, which I had set as red, is now purple on my iPad. It's green on my iPhone. I realize the color might not sync between devices, but if I set it as red on both, why is it changing them to something else?

Only thing I can tell is perhaps it happened when the iPad's screen shut off, or maybe when it synced.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 8:19 AM

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seanlun

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Posted on Nov 1, 2011 10:55 PM

I have five subscribed calendars on my iPad, and four of them are on my iPhone as well. And since updating to iOS 5, I have been having the same issue. This does not happen with any of my iCloud calendars, just the subscribed ones. Unfortunately, I don't have a fix either. I was here looking for one myself. But I thought I'd chime in just to say I'm dealing with the same thing.

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o_m_r

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Oct 16, 2013 1:06 PM in response to Westindiandiva

Me too. I coincidentally tried it while I was tweaking iOS 7 on my iPhone and it stuck. Huray! Seems to me the colors are a bit different than before I assume the issue was on the Apple/iCloud server side matching iOS 7's new color scheme to the older one. Let's hope it's resolved...

Oct 16, 2013 1:11 PM in response to o_m_r

o_m_r, I think you're right. My daughter's colours on her iOS7 phone are different to those on my iOS6 iPad. Still, actually being able to choose you colours is a huge improvement!

Oct 17, 2013 1:28 AM in response to edwardaggie98

Seems to be working now. Hopefully it'll stay working.

SWLinPHX

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Oct 24, 2013 11:32 PM in response to relliksmom

What about green, relliksmom?

jmsfmtex

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Nov 6, 2013 8:53 AM in response to SWLinPHX

Am I understanding all of this? My calendar has a very bright white background. Most entries show us with a very light and small font, which is extremely difficult to see, and a color dot before the entry. The color was selected in "Calendars".

I personally hate this new calendar.

Dec 11, 2013 5:14 AM in response to edwardaggie98

This seems to have helped me.

Someone shared 2 Google Calendars with me and coloured one red and the other green. On my iPhone 5 with iOS 7 the colour of both was blue, no matter what colour the owner used.

Then I logged into my Google Calendar account and changed the colours to red and green and it has held - so far so good!

Jan 24, 2014 4:57 PM in response to edwardaggie98

I HAVE SOLVED SAID ISSUE

[my calendar colours on my iOS devices would rarely be the same colours I had set for them on my Mac]

I went to icloud settings on both my iPhone and iPad, disconnected the calendars (deleted them off devices in process), gave it a few minutes and then switched them back on.

The newly established calendars from my iCloud account would be there, all consistent and lovely.

Mar 3, 2014 8:29 PM in response to edwardaggie98

Steps to change the calendar colors on the Iphone 5, iOS 7.0.6:

1. Open your calendar

2. At bottom click on the word "Calendars" in the middle

3. Click Edit in upper left corner

4. If you click on a calendar that shows a right arrow as in ">", you will see the list of color background choices for calendar entries. (unfortunately only 1 of two calendars showed that right arrow)

Remaining issue for Apple seems to be offering the same choice for more than one calendar. Although I had both Google and Yahoo calendars turned on, I only was given the choice of changing the color for the Yahoo calendar entries. I would guess that the remaining calendar colors are chosen by default. This still needs a fix and that is probably why there are numerous replies about essentially tricking the system into assigning colors to certain calendars. Some colors are hard to read (even just look at) compared to others.

RTE1953

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Mar 4, 2014 4:51 PM in response to David0111

Hi, David, I got an alert that you had posted to this thread. I think the issue I was having was different. I had initially posted last fall, when the "Barbie Dreamhouse" bug had gotten into Calendars (changing our calendars to purple, pink and turquoise no matter what we did) but that was fixed, a few weeks after the bug started.

Sounds like the current issue is more with interacting with Google and Yahoo calendars.

RTE

Mar 4, 2014 6:53 PM in response to RTE1953

Hi RTE,

No, it appeared to be random. Went from yellow to purple without going into the calendar settings. Whether the underlying issue is different, I am not sure. Apple will have to figure it out.

David

Aug 19, 2015 3:51 AM in response to JasonGough

I have the same problem. And I have the calendars setup on my Mac. But they still change colour. Both on the Mac and on my iPhone.

OSX 10.10.4, iPhone 6.

Calendar colors keep changing