This post will walk you through activating an iOS feature on the latest iPhone flagship devices that allows you to use an alternative calendar. Here’s a quick guide to enable alternate calendars on the Apple iPhone 14 series.
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Your iPhone 14 allows you to set up multiple calendars that you can use to keep track of all your important appointments and events to attend to. Having more than one calendar makes it easier for you to set up different appointments and events and stay organized.
Depicted below is the actual process of setting up or adding an alternative calendar on the iPhone 14 smartphone. If you’re new to iOS devices and need some input on how to get this done on your iPhone, then you may go ahead and refer to these outlined instructions.
To begin, open the iOS Settings app by tapping on its shortcut icon on the Home screen or App library.
The Settings app shortcut icon is represented by a gear-shaped image lined up among other icons on either screen.While in the Settings app menu, scroll to find then tap Calendar from the given items.
Doing so will take you to the Calendar app settings menu. Here, you will see all available options associated with the iOS 16 calendar application.Find Alternate Calendars from the given options then tap on it to continue.
On the following menu, you’ll see a list of other Calendars that you can use.By default, Alternate Calendars is disabled in the iOS 16 Calendar app settings. To activate the feature, just tap to mark your preferred alternate calendar.
In iPhone 14, you can choose any of the given options including Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic.The recent changes you’ve made will then be applied on the iOS Calendar app’s interface. To see the result, launch the Calendar app from your iPhone’s Home screen.
When the app opens, you should see that the selected alternate calendar characters are already visible.
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To switch back to the original interface, just head back to the Calendar app’s settings then turn off Alternative Calendar.
To verify and ensure that the correct default calendar is selected, head back to the Calendar app’s main settings menu then tap Default Calendar.
On the succeeding window, you will see a list of available calendars such as Home, Work, and Family. Be sure to select the desired calendar that you want to use for new events created outside of a specific calendar.
Using iCalendar on iPhone 14
If you want, you can use other inbuilt options to customize your iPhone 14 calendar app.
There is also an option for you to add a new calendar or subscribe to an iCalendar — a computer file format with an extension of .ics that allows you to share calendars with other internet users by sharing the same file type (.ics).
iCalendar is supported and utilized by various products such as Apple Calendar, Yahoo, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo.
All you have to do is import the iCal files to your preferred calendar clients including the Apple Calendar Lotus Notes on your iPhone 14.
Check iPhone Date/Time Settings
To avoid missing important appointments, events or occasions, make sure that the date and time settings on your iPhone are set to automatic. Doing so ensures that calendar events will display according to the time zone of your location.
You may however opt to use Time Zone Override in case you’d like your device to always show event dates and times in the selected time zone.
And that’s how you activate and use alternate calendars on the new Apple iPhone 14 smartphone.