Comments for iPad Artistry

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by philip

philip — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:56:16 +0000

I just update to iOS 5 on my iPad and the “add event button” or the plus sign at the bottom right is missing…. anybody know how to restore?

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Cagri

Cagri — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:39:34 +0000

Add event button is also missing in my ipad . I think this is something new . Does anybody have any idea ?

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Al

Al — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:50:30 +0000

Add event button missing from iPad
Why?

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Carol

Carol — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:49:07 +0000

I’m a month view person and I’d like the ability to customize the view to be 4 weeks but cross months. At the end of each month I’m forever toggling back and forth.

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:01:15 +0000

I’m a single chair salon owner who loves all her Mac products. Used Macbook to do all scheduling, but was taken by the size and charm of IPad. Sadly the calendar app is missing the books ability to customize appointments. Really important for someone like myself who pre books 60-80 people a week. I have several clients who want the same day and time every 4, 5,6 weeks. Thank goodness I have the Mac at home to do this. Otherwise I’d have do each one separately. Seems like a simple thing to have in iCal. When other stylist ask about how the IPad functions I have to share this obvious shortcoming.

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Reinkefj

Reinkefj — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:23:44 +0000

I’m not an iPad guru. Nor due I play one on TV. I don’t see anyway to create additional calendars, like wife, doc1, or tv. Maybe on MobileMe which is down now.

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Nat

Nat — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:46:56 +0000

Also another important feature missing : Unable to create custom recurring events. For example if an event needs to reoccur every Monday, Tues, and Thursday there is no means to do this.

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Linda

Linda — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:25:33 +0000

Me again, I would love to be able to sort out my photo’s on my iPad and not have to go thru our main Apple Computer. I want to be able to catergorise them into events and dates..can anyone help? Thanks,
Linda

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:15:24 +0000

I echo Linda’s comment about tapping the time. My wife and I love our iPad and iPhone but in my opinion this is a feature that is lacking. In week view you can tap the day to preselect the day for the new event so why not the time? I can do this in iCal so I would expect to be able to do it on my iDevice. This one little fix would greatly improve work-flow.

I haven’t heard of any Calendar updates for iOS 4.2 but hopefully someone at Apple is reading this and I’ll see it in 4.3?

Comment on iPad’s Calendar: missing some crucial features by Tim Bartol

Tim Bartol — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:07:40 +0000

As for refreshing the iPad calendar: there IS a simple way to do it, though you may not want to do it. Go to Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendar; select “Fetch New Data” and turn off “Push”; then change the Fetch schedule to “Manually”. After these changes, each app you use will do a force-refresh whenever it is opened (this includes, obviously) Calendar.

I find that this approach is more reliable (some push updates can literally take hours to make their way to my iPad, or get lost entirely). As well, since it turns out that the MobileMe client on my WinXP SP3 laptop has a tendency to runaway and take over the processor, I run that update (between Outlook on the desktop and the MobileMe calendar on the cloud) in manual mode as well.

Not particularly high tech — but the update cycles are fast (under 2 minutes desktop-to-cloud and under 1 minute cloud-to-iPad) — and this despite the fact that I keep 800+ appts live on my calendar at any time.

While it is early days on testing (I just started MobileMe a week ago) I am pleasantly surprised. It is substantially faster than, and appears to be more accurate than all the Google-to-Outlook sync software I have tested in the past (and I have exhaustively tested three different ones). It is also, to my real surprise, substantially faster than the iTunes-based Outlook-to-iPad sync process.

As for the original point Jared made: yeah, I think the inability to move events from one calendar to another after they have been created sucks. I move ALL my events to an archive after they have happened — and I would LOVE to be able to carry out that move on my iPad, which is with me when most of the events actually get done.