iPhone Calendar is Worthless

Posted August 5th, 2008 by Albert Banks

iPhone Calendar IconAs an early adopter of the iPhone I have suffered through the perpetual annoyances of missing features in the iPhone software. Some of them have been added, mostly via the recent 2.0 software update.

But there is one application that continues to be, well, worthless. The Calendar application that comes with the iPhone simply is not functional. I’m not referring to the interface on the phone. My primary issue is how the calendar gets events.

Sure, you can now use a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or the buggy new Mobile Me for push. But what about the rest (most) of us?

Let me setup my situation. I was forced to use Outlook as it is the only program the iPhone can sync with for contacts and calendars on a PC. But I don’t actually use the Outlook calendar. I add webcals from various sources (Basecamp, Google Calendar, etc.).

When I try to sync via iTunes, NONE of my web calendars are available. This happened before the 2.0 update and I thought for sure this would be resolved, but it continues to be a problem. This should be an available option. In fact, this is not a problem in Apple’s iCal…

An alternate solution would be if Apple remove the handcuffs from the Calendar App and allowed adding of webcals via the App itself. But until then, the iPhone Calendar is worthless to me.

Outlook Calendars

Outlook Calendars

iTunes Calendar Sync Options

iTunes Calendar Sync Options

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  1. Dan
    September 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Hey Albert,
    I was just reading the blog after Ron sent us that message. Just thought you might want to know, this is what I use to get my Google Calendar on my iPod touch. It works pretty well, 2-way sync and all. Its called Neuvasync (http://www.nuevasync.com/).

    Hope it helps.

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