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

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

Somebody at Apple decided that it would be a good idea to add a bright colorful calendar icon next to each and every all-day calendar event, as part of the update to the Calendar app in iOS 18.0.

It looks equally ridiculous and distracting on both my iPhone and iPad. And there is no way to turn it off or remove it. I would have to update each and every birthday, holiday, all day event, etc. with a specific time frame in order to remove that icon. I have hundreds of all-day calendar entries, that would be a monumental and time consuming task.

I rely upon those all-day events to show me the important stuff for the day, whether they are actual all-day events or not. They are presented to me right on top, in List view on all of my devices, which is the only view that I really use. Those all-day events are up there for a reason, but they are not always the only or most important event of any given day, and now they are going to be a big distraction.

I left feedback for Apple on the Support site. I would suspect that more people are going to complain about this as iOS 18.0 continues to get rolled out and installed.

iPhone 15 Pro

Posted on Sep 16, 2024 3:14 PM

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Winters1986

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Sep 26, 2024 4:28 PM in response to dtang7d

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!!!

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smw104

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Sep 17, 2024 6:26 AM in response to mlb32704

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

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dtang7d

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Sep 24, 2024 9:43 PM in response to mlb32704

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!

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Oct 6, 2024 8:18 AM in response to mlb32704

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!!

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Oct 3, 2024 5:21 PM in response to smw104

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?

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Sep 19, 2024 4:36 PM in response to mlb32704

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).

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mlb32704 Author

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Sep 19, 2024 1:03 PM in response to j_2182

You are probably not the only person, and I don’t like the pipes either. But we’re going to have to agree to disagree on the calendar icon. It’s gotta go, or at least give us the option to turn it on or off.

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mlb32704 Author

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Sep 17, 2024 8:03 AM in response to smw104

Per my initial post, I’ve already done that. My experience in submitting feedback to Apple Support over the past 30+ years is that they really don’t care. They don’t really pay attention to feedback submitted by customers. These Discussions seem to yield greater results. There is strength in numbers voicing issues indirectly back to Apple, as well as Users coming up with workarounds to issues that Apple won’t address. The reality is that Apple does whatever it wants to, and if it decides to change this functionality, they will on their terms and timing. It is what it is.

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Sep 18, 2024 11:32 PM in response to mlb32704

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.

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Sep 22, 2024 12:46 PM in response to Spiritlilly13

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.

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Sep 25, 2024 7:07 AM in response to dtang7d

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

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Sep 22, 2024 12:23 PM in response to mlb32704

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!

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Sep 24, 2024 6:29 AM in response to smw104

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.

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