In This Chapter
Adding, Editing, and Searching Events
Calendar keeps you on schedule and lets you track your life’s important events. Use it to:
• View individual calendars or multiple color-coded calendars at the same time.
• View, search, and edit recent and upcoming events, and add new events.
• View events and birthdays by day, week, month, or year, or as a list.
• Set custom alerts for important events.
• Send and receive meeting invitations.
• Sync calendars by using iCloud or iTunes.
• Subscribe to calendars published online.
You can view calendars individually or as a single combined calendar, which makes it easy to manage work and personal calendars at the same time .
Flick left or right to move from day to day, week to week, or year to year.
You can add, update, delete, and search for events on any of your calendars, and set Calendar to alert you to upcoming events.
• Tap , enter the event information, and then tap Done .
The event appears on whichever calendar you selected.
To set the default calendar for events, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Calendar.
• To set the default alert time for events, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Default Alert Times.
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To make alerts appear as notifications, tap Settings > Notifications > Calendar > Notifications Center > On. (For details, see “Getting Notifications” in Chapter 4.)
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To play audio alerts, tap Settings > General > Sounds > Calendar Alerts. (If your iPad is turned off, a text alert appears when you turn it on, but audio doesn’t play.)
1. Tap the event.
2. If a small summary window opens, tap Edit .
3. In the Edit window, change the event information.
The Edit window is the same as the Add Event window .
4. Tap Done.
To change an event’s time or duration quickly, touch and hold the event to select it, and then drag it to a new time, or drag the grab points (small circles) to change its duration.
1. Tap the event.
2. Tap Edit (if necessary).
3. Scroll to the bottom of the Edit window, and tap Delete Event .
1. Tap the Search field in the top-right corner of the screen and then type one or more keywords.
Calendar searches the events for the calendars that you’re currently viewing. You can search the titles, invitees, locations, and notes fields of events.
To clear the Search field, tap in that field.
2. Tap an event in the Results window .
If necessary, flick up or down to scroll the window. If too many events are listed, you can redo your search by adding or refining keywords in the Search field.
You can also search for Calendar events from the Home screen. See “Searching Your iPad” in Chapter 2.
When you have multiple devices, you can use iCloud to sync your calendars across them. Update your schedule in one place and see your changes everywhere. For details, see “Using iCloud” in Chapter 4.
To sync your calendars across all your computers and iDevices, tap Settings > iCloud > Calendar > On. To sync past events, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Sync (below Calendars). Future events are always synced.
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