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Useless Calendar Widget

The most useless calendar widget is made by Apple. I constantly forget that someone’s birthday or something important is coming up later in the week.

Now I understand that you can set up alerts and you can set up reminders for stuff. I also understand that you can choose a different size widget. But depending on the size and the amount of events it’s possible it won’t even show you what’s going on the next day in the larger widget as well.

This is forced me to use third-party widgets to display calendar events for the week on my home screen. I hate it because I have no idea if it’s stealing my data.

Bonus Edit! The large widget fails to show you what’s happening today!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d895d698-f4ff-4213-abad-7dde468ec4e8.jpeg

burkybang ,
@burkybang@lemmy.world avatar

I agree. Luckily the iOS 18 one is a little better.

iOS 18 Calendar Widget

zelifcam OP , (edited )
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

It still looks terrible IMO.

  • What are the “2 all-day events”?
  • Why is HALF of the widget wasted white space.
  • why are there 3 more events if half of the widget is wasted white space.

Edit: I’m familiar with the widget. I understand it’s different than the one I posted. Clearly I’ve had interest in doing so. They’re all poorly designed. It takes up a third of the screen and does a bad job at presenting as much information as possible within reason.

2xsaiko ,
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What are the “2 all-day events”?

Tap on it to find out (if this wasn’t an image). I assume there’s a fixed one row of space for an all-day event there. That’s definitely on purpose, considering they even have a toggle switch to completely hide all-day events. Sure, it could be two or up to two elements but that comes at the cost of the detail on the timeline below. They probably considered the timeline to be more important because that changes more often as opposed to the all-day events that only change once per day, and that as a consequence you’re going to check the all-day events once per day (or even just the day before), so you can just tap the widget if you want to see them.

It would be great if it was more customizable in terms of the layout of course, but this is Apple we’re talking about. I’m honestly surprised there’s a toggle switch to completely hide all-day events in the first place.

Why is HALF of the widget wasted white space.

This one’s a timeline, not a list of events unlike the one in your post, and in that time (8-12 today) there are no events, so it’s blank. It’s as much wasted white space as the full calendar view with no events in it.

Personally I have no problem with the calendar widget, but I have to say collapsing today’s all-day events in the list view as in the OP if there’s space left is questionable at best.

johsny ,
@johsny@lemmy.world avatar

I changed over to using calendar.txt a few months ago, never looked back. So easy to sync.

mayo ,
@mayo@lemmy.world avatar

Way too much emphasis on making it look like a calendar app. It should just be a list at that point.

HotsauceHurricane ,

The calander app is a shit show. You used to be able to make a repeating event on specific days of the week. but now you have to make multiple events on those days to repeat weekly. If you dont then it shows like a whole fuckin month of one event. Its also bullshit that there isnt a widget for a full month view. I have to use OneCalander for that. OneCalander

Empricorn , (edited )

You’re just salty because you missed that one event at that one place with those specific people. Apple put it in your calendar, how is that not helpful!? /s

EDIT: I was making a dumb joke about how it didn’t show you any details, even if it would take up the same space…

zelifcam OP ,
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

Silly me for thinking the point of the widget was to allow you to see your week at a glance.

Louisoix ,

Speaking of “at a glance”… Absolutely hated that feature at first, but now one of my favorite “small thing” about pixels.

Empricorn ,

Sorry, we’re on the same page! Sarcasm doesn’t come across so well written.

zelifcam OP ,
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

I caught it. Seems others didn’t.

Quicky ,

Completely agree, this is garbage, and I’ve bitched about it in the past. Annoyingly, both the Gmail and Outlook widgets are far better, but I don’t want either of those on my phone.

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