FAQ

Restart your device.

A lot of issues can be resolved by simply restarting your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

In some cases, restarting Calendar+ will suffice. This is how:

1. Double-click the home button
2. Find the Calendar+ icon in the list of icons at the bottom and tap and hold on the Calendar+ icon until it starts wobbling
3. Tap on the minus symbol on the Calendar+ icon
4. Click once on the home button to stop the wobbling icons
5. Click once more on the home button to close the list of icons
6. Start Calendar+ again as usual

If you are getting the message “Cannot add an event” or something like that, then this is a known problem in iOS 5 that Apple has not fixed yet. But you can get around it by doing the following:

1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Go to Email, Contacts, Calendars
3. Scroll down to Default Calendar
4. Change Default Calendar to another calendar
5. Restart your iPhone

If this doesn’t solve it, then:

1. Start the built-in iPhone calendar app
2. Choose Calendars at the top left.
3. Tap on Edit and then tap on Add Calendar… and add a new calendar.
4. Start Calendar+ and choose this newly added calendar as your default calendar in the Calendar+ settings.

If this doesn’t work either, try turning on iCloud.

Events are automatically displayed in the color of the calendar the event belongs to. So to display events in different colors, you need several calendars with the colors set for each.

Each calendar can be named appropriately, e.g. “Work” or “Home” etc., to make it easier to choose them when creating events.

See the instructions below for setting it up, depending on whether you have iOS 5 or iOS 4 on your device.

iOS 5

Using iCloud

If you are using iCloud to sync your calendars, you can manage all of your calendar details in the iCloud web interface if you like.

Using built-in iPhone calendar app

Open the built-in iPhone calendar app and create new calendars with your chosen colors or change the colors of the existing calendars. After starting the Calendar app, press the Calendars button at the top, then Edit and then when you press on a calendar, you can change the name and color.

iOS 4

You need to sync with either your Mac/PC or with Google calendar, or upgrade your device to iOS 5.

You can create/change calendars on Mac/PC (iCal on Mac or Outlook on PC) or Google calendar and at the same time set a color.

When you sync your device with iTunes, the calendars are synced over with the colors you set on them and these are then used by Calendar+. Upgrade to iOS 5 to be able to do this directly on your device.

Note: Outlook calendar colors are not “honored” by the sync and are instead assigned a color.

You just need to enable the Emoji keyboard on your device and then you will be able to switch to it wherever you can type text (in all apps). Just press on the “globe” key on the keyboard to switch keyboards.

See the instructions below for setting it up, depending on whether you have iOS 5 or iOS 4 on your device.

iOS 5

Open the built-in Settings app and choose General -> International -> Keyboards -> Add New Keyboard… -> Emoji

iOS 4

You could download one of the many free or paid Emoji apps in the App Store.

MG Solutions has the Smileys app available for purchase, with full support.

 

See the instructions here: Google calendar sync instructions

This setting allows you to turn on or off the display of the starting time of all events in the the month or week view individually.

For example, here is the week view with the starting time on:

and off:

The Birthdays calendar is created automatically when you add birthdays to your contacts. Open the Contacts app and edit a contact and add the birthday field to the contact. Calendar+ automatically displays birthdays as all-day events with a little “present” icon.

Calendar+ has support for displaying a number of different numbers on the app icon as a badge.
Choose the one you would like (or disable it) in Calendar+ under Settings -> App icon badge.

• None
• Week number
• Day of the month
• Day of the year

If you don’t want to display the badge, then choose None.

iOS 5
You may need to enable notifications for Calendar+ for the badge to work under iOS 5:
Settings -> Notifications -> Calendar+ -> Badge App Icon (Set to ON)

To make sure you always see all events, do the following:

1. Start the Settings app
2. Choose Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Scroll down to Calendars
4. Choose Sync
5. Choose All events