iOS 769: Chronology with Calendars - How Managing Your Calendars Could Save Your Sanity
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
From wrestling with multiple time zones to sharing calendars with tech-challenged family members, Rosemary and Dan dig into the moments when Apple's new calendar tricks save the day.
- Calendars on iOS get a redesigned UI in iOS 26
- Comparing Apple's Calendar app vs. Fantastical for daily use
- Integrating Reminders with Calendar and viewing tasks alongside events
- Travel time, time zones, and scheduling events across regions
- Strategies for managing multiple calendars and color-coding
- Sharing events and whole calendars with others, controlling access
- Using location and attachments in events for enhanced info sharing
- Subscribing to public calendars for holidays, school schedules, and updates
- Filtering calendars by focus mode and limitations of current implementations
- Siri suggestions for calendar events: upsides and annoyances
- Tips for handling duplicate events and event merging wish list
- Viewing your weekly calendar using an iPhone in landscape mode
- Using calendar widgets and lock screen features to see upcoming events
- App Caps: Belkin MagSafe car vent mount and ESR Halo Lock charger for phones
- App Caps: Silicone cable ties for cable management, alternatives, and best practices
Hosts: Rosemary Orchard and Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS Today, I'm joined by Damar to talk about all things calendars on iOS. |
| 0:08.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:10.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:14.0 | This is iOS Today, episode 769, recorded Tuesday, September 2nd for Thursday, September 11th, |
| 0:23.6 | 2025. |
| 0:24.6 | Chronology with calendars. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPod OS, iPad OS, TVOS, watchOS, |
| 0:33.6 | OS, HomePod OS, HomeKit OS. |
| 0:35.6 | Ah, we just start making up Apple OS as the aren't Mac OS at this point on this show. |
| 0:40.1 | But that's fun because we do love to talk about them all and learn how to use them. |
| 0:44.8 | My name is Rosemary Orchit, and I'm joined by the fabulous Dan Morin. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi, Dan. |
| 0:49.1 | Welcome back. |
| 0:49.6 | Hi, Rosemary. |
| 0:50.6 | Great to be here again. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm looking forward to when Apple combines all of its OSS into a meta OSOS. Oh gosh, that sounds like it could be an SOS. SOS. That's right. There you go. |
| 1:02.1 | You picked up what I was putting down. Yes. Yeah, there we go. But that's okay. We have time for that |
| 1:08.3 | because we booked some time in our calendars for this episode. |
| 1:12.6 | And yeah, I thought it would be a pretty good idea to talk about calendars on iOS because over the last few iterations of iOS, |
| 1:22.6 | and that includes iOS 26, which will have been out hopefully for a few days by the time that you folks all get to watch this episode at home. |
| 1:31.2 | You know, we have a new UI in iOS for calendars. |
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