And if a practice or game gets rescheduled, then my calendar gets updated without me needing to do anything. I subscribed to my son's Little League calendar, which put every game and practice that the coach adds to the league website right on my calendar. You can remove birthdays or holidays or both from your calendar by opening the Calendar app, tapping Calendars at the bottom, scrolling down to the Other section at the bottom, and unchecking Holidays or Birthdays. The calendar app pulls in holidays and birthdays, which can be helpful for planning your week, but I find including birthdays to be overkill (that's what Facebook is for). Go to Settings > Calendar, tap Default Alert Times and choose to be alerted for Birthdays, Events and All-Day Events. Your calendar can keep you from missing an event or forgetting a birthday by alerting you to such things. To do so, go to Settings > Calendar, tap Default Calendar and then select Family. If you operate as your family's primary scheduler, then it might be helpful to change the default calendar from Home to Family. Tap Calendar and then you can choose to schedule your event on your Family calendar. The default is likely Home, which isn't shared. To create an event that will appear not only on your calendar but also on those of the rest of your iPhone-toting family members, scroll down under the start and end times and you'll see a line for Calendar. If you use Family Sharing to share app purchases among other items, then you should know that a family calendar has been created for you. My life has been greatly aided and streamlined ever since my wife and I started using a shared family calendar. Here are seven tips to get the most out of the iOS Calendar app. Who knows - with a few minutes of work upfront, the Calendar app might crack your top ten list of favorite iPhone features. It's simple but deceptively powerful if you set it up right. When setting up your iPhone ( $264 at Amazon), there are a number of settings to change and tweak right away, but one that often goes overlooked is the stock iOS Calendar app.

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