iOS 7 Calendar List View Gone?

And some of us contribute to this thread because there is no way to change the curent calendar and we try to provide suggestions that actually work in the real world. Going on for 14 pages about not liking the current version of the calendar is pretty pointless. The answer to "I don't like the calendar, what can I do?" is Submit feedback to Apple and find something that works better. Everything else is just venting and really outside the pervue of this technical support forum.

Thanks for the tip on fantastical!

I too hate the new calendar in ios 7

The older version was quicker and more user friendly!

Clearly quite some thoughts to be had on new calendar! As the original post is on the list view, I'll share the main use case for why this is an annoyance for me. On ios6, clicking on month was a great way to quickly symmetrically compare how busy for example Mondays across the month will be to each other. Now, when on moth view, you have visual clues to how Mondays have appointments, but no differentiation to know that 1st Monday had 4 appointments and second Monday of the month Ono has one. Ios7 is clean, but lacks that quick insight and leaves the dull gray dot indicating both Mondays to be the same. Closest feature to the previous month view is by clicking on the search icon, which is a nice feature, BUT still... It's not a tabular comparison and really ends up being more of a search than a quick comparison.

Bring that feature back! Perhaps, an idea would be to make the horizontal view of calendar to flip to a weekly OR monthly depending on user preference or a tap after flipping the phone horizontally. Likely, if you flip horizontally, that's when you can maximize the most amount of space anyway to see several days at once, might as well show a good monthly view.

I am in agreement with the masses. Why would the list view be removed? It was clearly something that had value to many users. Apple.......please bring back the original list view.

It's pretty clear that Apple needs to fix their calendar app. List View was used by many (most?) and has been replaced with a search that a) doesn't include all of the original functionality, and b) is pretty much useless as it jumps around all over the place.

robertofrombc wrote:

List View was used by many (most?)

On what do you base this assertion? Keep in mind that only a very, very small number of iOS 7 users post here and that the sample is heavily biased toward people who are having issues. Peopel who aren't, don't tend to post.

@ Meg.....

Um, common sense? Look at the replies/views of this thread alone. Seriously, Your tireless defensive position you hold for the Apple team is getting old. They're big boys, they can handle criticism. Dial back the Kool-Aid drinking

I asked the poster to provide back up for a gross over-generalization, the same as I would if someone had said "everyone loves the new calendar". Such assumptions tend to be very unhelpful in technical support forums. And, I have an distaste for made up figures. I was defending nothing buy accuracy and clarity. And they need all the help they can get.

@Meg:

No it is easy. Read this thread. Or imagine an example scenario:

- you are to coordinate a date with your dentist

- he/she provides you an actual day

- you navigate to that day, and find yourself in the "day view", where you MUST scroll from morning to evening to get a broad picture of your dates that day, even if there are no dates at all (as for most of us people)

- THAT scrolling is a big drawback, the plain "list view" from pre-iOS 7 was a nice solution, it was the even better solution.

Besides this scenario: in the iOS 7 - "kind of list view", there is no "add date" functionality available. So, when switching back from that view, to some view that provides "add date" functionality, you will be placed at some date, which is often not the date you wanted to have. So while agreeing on a date with your dentist, you may use that list view, but when it comes to actually add that date to your calender, you must switch back, find the date again, add it, add time, details and so on.

This is prone to error.

This is very far from optimum, and lately at my dentist, all that extra-time scrolling and clicking around in my calender was EXTREMELY embarrassing: My old Treo would have been faster, even pencil & paper would have been better and faster tools! And it was prone to some actual errors. Just because that calender app ***** now.

And regarding the other issues? Well come on, so many people have explained it in this thread.

Well put sir!!

A reply much earlier in this thread suggested using 'Fantastical' in place of the Calendar app in iOS 7.

iOS 7 calendar was so bad I invested £2.99 in Fantastical (actually Fantastical 2 you should use now) and it solves all my problems. It's like iOS 6, but better. Most importantly it has list view. I recommend it as a solution on iPhone iOS 7.

(It also works on iPad, although I find iOS 7 Calendar is ok on iPad).

Someone also recommended Tempo, so I tried it. I don't have an iPhone, just an iPad Mini. So I was disappointed in Tempo becuase on an iPad you only have 2X iPhone formatting, which isn't worth paying for.

So, does Fantastical actually support the iPad screen, or is it 2X the iPhone? (I wish more authors would provide a free trial version of their apps, even if its functions are restricted.)

Fantastical 2 is only listed as an iPhone app, but it works on my iPad fine - it just automatically fills the screen.

Have a look at it on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fantastical-2/id718043190?mt=8

Look at the 4th view from the left - this is the view I usually use - month, plus list-view.

On what do you base this assertion? Keep in mind that only a very, very small number of iOS 7 users post here and that the sample is heavily biased toward people who are having issues. Peopel who aren't, don't tend to post.

You seem to be here to troll, and I normally don't feed trolls, but you are annoying quite a few people here with your obtuseness, so I will elaborate in the hope that it may penetrate the brick wall of your mind.

My assertion was that the feature was used by many. That is self-evident from this thread and a simple google search on iOS 7 Calendar List View. Try it.

The (most?) was a conjecture, as clearly indicated by the question mark: "?", and therefore needs no substantiation. See how simple that was?

Fantasitcal is great. Tempo is great (wjs-mini - Tempo is free...).

Unfortunately, the Notification Center will not show these calendars in a big list, either... I am hoping that iCal can be fixed to list things helpfully, so that will help Notification Center, as well. The Notification Center has a different relationship to the iCal Calendar than it will to 3rd party calendar solutions (Tempo/Fantstical).

I don't need to know when nothing is happening, only need to know when SOMETHING is happening.

Meg St. Clair - ical is awesome. No more complaining. Everything's great. Thanks for your help. The door is right over there... we're totally all good, here.