One of the many functions that we can perform with our iPhone and iPad is to better control and organize our time. For this the native Apple application “Calendar” is ideal. It is a place where you can organize your tasks based on the calendars you choose, because yes, within this app you can have several calendars and here we explain how to do it in the simplest way possible.
What can the Calendar app do?
We have been seeing the “Calendar” application on our iPhone from the very first one, that is, practically our entire life, but few users are able to use the full potential of this application, since, well used, it can be a spectacular productivity tool.
If we want to simplify the function of the “Calendar” application a lot, we will say that it is an app where we will be able to write down tasks, birthdays, events and everything that may occupy our time on a day-to-day basis, but as I say, this would be oversimplifying everything the potential that this application has.
Indeed, “Calendar” we can use it to organize our daily tasks, meetings, events, birthdays, medical appointments or even the paddle games that we can play with our friends, so that, at a glance, we have a photograph of our entire day, week, month, or even year. However, the “Calendar” app doesn’t just boil down to that, we can organize all of this even more, since we can group these tasks, meetings, events, etc … into different calendars, yes, we can have many calendars within our app ” Calendar”.
Not only can we create Calendars within the same app, but we will be able to import calendars from other applications, such as Gmail, in this way we will be able to have the different calendars of the different applications that we use synchronized in a single application. This way, that is, we will be able to synchronize different accounts of external calendars within the “Calendar” application.
We will even be able to invite other people and vice versa, be invited by colleagues and friends to events that they have or we have in our own calendar.
All this with a totally customizable aesthetic, since we will be able to give each calendar a different color in order to have a much more organized visual of the different events that we have in our day or week.
In short, the “Calendar” app has tremendous potential that we can take advantage of to improve our productivity and organization every day in the best possible way.
How can I have different accounts within the application?
As I mentioned, one of the great functions that the “Calendar” app has is to be able to synchronize several accounts to have everything together in one place, in this way we can do without other apps since we will be able to access all this information from it space.
The process to add different accounts to our Calendar is really simple, both on the iPhone and on the iPad. The steps to follow are exactly the same already, iOS and iPadOS are practically the same.
To add different accounts to our Calendar we just have to follow the following steps:
- We enter Settings> Calendar> Accounts and click on “Add Account”
Add new calendars
Normally, whenever we add an account to our Calendar application in this way, the calendar of this application will be synchronized, but, in case it was not like that or that we simply deactivated the calendar of one of our accounts in the past and now we want to activate it again, the steps to follow are as follows:
- We enter Calendar, click at the bottom on “Calendars” and click again, this time, on “Add calendar”.
Once we have configured all the calendars that we want to have in our application, we can easily change the default calendar as follows:
- We go into Settings> Calendar> Default calendar.
Another of the customization options is to change the color of the calendar, something highly recommended if we have several since in this way we will be able to identify them in a much more visual way.
Finally, we can also subscribe to any calendar using a url, we just have to perform the following steps:
- We enter Settings> Calendar> Accounts> Add account> Other.
- Click on “Add subscribed calendar”.
- We introduce the URL of the .ics file.