iOS 7 Calendar List View Gone?

Dude... That app Tempo is freaking awesome. You gotta check it out. Cant beat the price - FREE. Thanks for the great tip!!

I HATE the new calendar!! Finding a time to schedule a new meeting used to be easy - just tap through the days on the month calendar, check the list below, then add a meeting. Finding a meeting was just as easy. Now I am forced to use what was the daily view, and have to scroll through the entire day to check for a time. If I wanted to use the daily view I would have! Don't force me to do it because you want to add transitions!

KTucker97 wrote:

I HATE the new calendar!! Finding a time to schedule a new meeting used to be easy - just tap through the days on the month calendar, check the list below, then add a meeting. Finding a meeting was just as easy.

Tempo, Fantastical and Week Cal all have a month view that functions like the month view on the iOS 6 calendar app. They also offer lots more features than the built in calendar on either version.

No one is arguing that there aren't a bajillion better calendar apps. The problem I was trying to solve was how to get a useful list on my lockscreen - NO CLICKING NEEDED to see what was coming up in my day. Just glance at phone, and be reminded. The system calendar is what is (at least vaguely) associated with the lockscreen/Notification Center.

At some point in the history of User Experience Development, LESS ACTIONS TO GET TO WHAT YOU NEEDED was important... I am sure there are plenty of users out there who really really want to be reminded of thier stocks at a glance. Or the weather FOR THAT DAY (because glancing out the WINDOW would be awful). Likewise, it should not be an effort to see your upcoming events.

There was a time when Apple would research how people were adding to thier software and include those functions in updates (that's how we got screensavers, the dashboard, etc.), but is no one from Apple looking to see what jailbreakers are going through SUCH HASSLE to jailbreak thier phones to be able to DO?? Change icons. Use the lockscreen. Come on, Apple.

I have come to the conclusion that the theme of IOS 7 is more touching and swiping to get to the information you need and want. Examples include the list view and creating events from list view, the tiny little letters along side the contact list so you have touch the screen a few more times before your IOS 7 recognizes you want your contacts under the letter 'D', and hiding the timestamps to your text messages - now swipe the entire text conversation to see the hidden timestamps. All this unnecessary over designing and never giving the user an opportunity to customize their experience to make iPhone more efficient and enjoyable. It is obvious they didn't do their research and yet they seem to think they have with IOS 7. What a disappointment.

Look, the best thing you can do is go to apple.com/feedback and submit your opinions there.

It's very weird, but Apple supposedly does NOT read these forums. You would think they would. Why make users go through the extra step of submitting feedback through the website, when you can just read the forums and get that feedback directly? Makes no sense right? Well maybe they do read these forums, but people will tell you that they don't read them. Hard to comprehend, I know, but... my point is, submit your post to apple.com/feedback.

The only real reason to ever post on this particular forum, honestly, is if you have a question that there might actually be an easy answer to, but you're outside of AppleCare and therefore you cannot just call Apple themselves. Or perhaps you called them and they did not answer your question.

Beyond that, posting tons of complaints here is really pointless, as far as I understand it. However the more people submit feedback at apple.com/feedback or via the bug reporting system (available if you're a developer) then Apple will hear you.

Agreed (posting here isn't necessarily heard by Apple). However posting to "feedback" doesn't get any movement, either. I've already sent my thoughts to "feedback", as well. I was just hoping for SOME additional thoughts HERE. Since all of US actually CARE about what is written here (as opposed to the black hole of "feedback"). Plus, you can always point your friends who work at Apple to this discussion....

I do appreciate the few suggestions and the general commisseration.

I am not alone!

Daddiemac: you are incorrect about apple monitoring these forums. I know this for a fact as I was contacted by apple about the iphone 5 when it was released. They contacted me solely based on this information I left here on the apple forums. Don't believe what you heard: apple pays attention to this forum.

In principal I agree with you, but I think there is some advantage to having different users discuss their problems and experiences here, especially those concerning a new release like 7.0. It's hard for one person to checkout all the new features and changes, and as people post their specific complaints here it helps others know what to look for in making their own anaylsis of the release.

For example, while many complaints about the calendar app were focused on how the day, week and months were being displayed, I for one had not considered the negative effects the changes had on other features. Lock screen messages, reminders and other details that may represent more sophisticated uses of the app need to be considered as well, and discussions of what no longer works correctly can be educational. It also helps argue against just switching to any other calendar app once all the capabilities of Apple's app are realized. The more that all the users know about what's right and what's wrong may help provide more pressure to get them fixed.

So yes, report the problems to Apple officially, but don't stop discussing them here.

people, we all agree that current calendar at iOS7 is ****, i hope they will fix it as well as do some work on pictures and music application, they seam to me also bad from functionality point of view

i put my feedback on feedback site, i dont believe much they care, i also put 2 month ago bug report (aperture), no change so far, we will see

MartyMCZ wrote:

people, we all agree that current calendar at iOS7 is ****,

Speak for yourself. I think it's an improvement over the iOS 6 version.

I moved on...thanks all for the recomendations on other apps; I went with Tempo and love it. Moved my iCalendar to some deep dark place on my iphone never to be used again.

you think less functionality is an improvement? oh,

MartyMCZ wrote:

you think less functionality is an improvement? oh,

Personally, I find it more functional for my workflow. And, I find it orders of magnitude more attractive. It may not be the right app for everyone. That's why there are lots of choices in the App Store.

this thread is about missing functionality in calendar at iOS7, i guess that people contribute this discussion because they also find this missing functionality very important, many people including me need it and we had to start using other application, i dont call that progress or improvement, we are not talking about design