How to add a calendar appointment to your iPhone
19 Jul 2010, 3:02 pm
When I ask people about the business uses of their iPhone, most people do not even mention the iPhone’s calendar as a key business tool. Yes they agree that it’s usable once they get their head around it but the general feeling is that Blackberry and Windows based phones have better calendars. Personally, I believe the the iPhones calendar app is a very handy tool and as such I would like to share a small tip that should help you with your iPhone.
My step by step guide with images on how to add a calender appointment to your iPhone.
Start with the home screen.
Press “calender” – you can add an appointment from either List, Day, or Month etc.
To start, tap the “+” (plus) button at top right to call up the “Add Event” screen.
Then tap “Title” and “Location”. Add in the event name and location as below.
Don’t forget to hit the “Save” button or you will lose your data.
Further down, fill out the additional fields and note “Start” and “End” times will normally default to 1hr apart, but you can change them to reflect the actual time and/or duration. Furthermore, you can toggle the “All-day” slider to “on” to float the event on top of your other appointments. Things like birthdays and anniversaries normally default to “All-day” events.
The repeat function allows you to setup appointments that happen on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly basis. With the ability to setup custom repetitions as well (every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, for example), this is an excellent feature of this calendar.
For users familiar with Microsoft Outlook the Alerts feature is familiar as it let you have the iPhone pop up a reminder for you before the event and it also let you decide how long before the event you get the pop up. You just need to Tap the time you would like.
Now we come to the feature that allows you to color code your multiple calendars. For e.g you can choose which color-coded calendar you’d like your new event to appear in. Family, work, training, etc. can all hold different events. This feature needs to be discussed in depth and I hope to have a special blog to cover this in the not too distant future.
And Lastly, the notes feature is as simple and efficient as it gets and let you add notes to events. Much like notes in any other calendar.
Once you have entered all that you need for the event , tap “Done” at the top right and the appointment will show up in your calendar.
I hope this little unofficial guide aids you in your quest to fully utilise your iPhone and if you have anything valuable to add, don’t forget to add a comment below.
Till next time, Vikesh S.
