iOS 18.0 Adds Calendar Icon Next to ALL All-Day Events!

THIS!!!!! This is horrible for me!!! I use my calendar for all kinds of things and not having a visible second field to show in the month view is horrible!!! Why would they take a feature like that away?! I pray they fix this in future updates because needing to click every event to see the location field notes is driving me crazy!!!

I just came here with the same complaint. It looks like garbage on my iMac. Who on earth thought this was a good idea??

On top of this annoyance, All-day entires now no longer show the location in the List view. You have to click into each event individually to view the location. Doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this either!

I’ve been an Apple customer for over 40 years—I had one of the original Apple 2 desktops. I agree with everything that has been said about this particular change in iOS 18. It’s awful. It makes it impossible for me to identify my many, many all-day appointments on my iPhone. Because the useless calendar icon takes up so much space on the line, only a few letters of the appointment remain visible. I have to click on each and every one to read my all-day appointments. What a terrible idea and what an inconvenience!!

Yes, what "genius" did this? Bonus points for design over practicality...daahh

why not make it possible to turn it on of off in calendar preferences?

I don't mind the symbol, but I do mind the space it takes up... valuable screen real estate, I usually look in month view, and there's not a lot of room for a description to fit and be fully visible. The bigger the display, the less impact. On smaller iPad screen, where real estate is at a premium, not good. On larger Macbook screen, not a big deal (for me).

This latest 18OS update has added a calendar icon on every day of my calendar which is totally distracting and not necessary. As I have now read and looked into there is currently no way to fix this. I will be going back to previous operating system update until apple changes this idea. Hopefully they will listen and remove this unwanted idea.

UPDATE: I just realized I can change the size of my font so now everything fits even better on my calendar. There is also an extra line available again. I don’t mind the symbol as much now, but it is still so very unnecessary.

I agree! I hate this symbol! I don’t need a calendar symbol to tell me I’m on my calendar. It takes up valuable space. I also despise that the font or symbols are larger now so less of what I enter on the calendar is visible. I think it’s at least four less characters are visible now. I really hope they will fix this or at least give the option to turn off that egregious calendar symbol! I’ve never complained before not even when an update long ago took one of the calendar lines away. It used to give you five lines per box on your monthly view of calendar. For years now it’s been downsized to four which I didn’t like, but this is just beyond awful!

dtang7d wrote:

On top of this annoyance, All-day entires now no longer show the location in the List view. You have to click into each event individually to view the location. Doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this either!

You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:

Product Feedback - Apple

smw104 wrote:

I just came here with the same complaint. It looks like garbage on my iMac. Who on earth thought this was a good idea??

I believe it was added because you can now have reminders on the calendar as well. The icons tell you whether or not the thing is an appointment or a reminder. Reminders have an empty circle icon. And birthdays have the present.

Is a horrible design that should be allowed to toggle on or off. For me, it’s too busy on my eyes. It’s hard to look at the calendar now and I’ve always relied heavily on it. It reminds me of skew ball; a classic arcade game that’s no longer enjoyable due to all the colors and flashing lights that will make someone have an epileptic seizure. Bring back to old wooden skeeball with orange balls and no lights. Hope Apple gives the option to see the previous calendar view without all the “flashing lights.”

You can report it on their feedback page: Feedback - Calendar - Apple