The default Calendar app for Windows Phone has nabbed an update today, and it brings a couple of new features to the table. Now, upon opening the app, you'll be greeted to and agenda view, as well as new settings to customize the way dates are displayed.
Here's the breakdown of what's new from the changelog:
- Agenda view – Know your schedule at a quick glance. See a concise list of sequential events for the day or the week.
- Calendar World Readiness – Show the week number for day, week, or month. Set the first day of the year by: January 1, first 4-day week, or first full week. Set which day to be the first day of the week.
Be sure to hit up that store link below to grab the update for yourself. Happy updating!
Thanks to the crazy number of you, the Windows Central faithful, who sent this in!
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The defaults for week number calculation (first day of week, and week-rule) should follow the culture (regional settings) ao people do not have to set them - they evidently follow the US as defaults.
iPhone have now integrated weeknumbers in their OS. We are using this system in EU - Europe. When will it be integrated i Windows Phone's calender?
Just noticed that the location is live now too with actual addresses and businesses listed, awesomeness!
I prefer the normal Chronos Calendar and not CC+ due to the fact on CC+ you have to go through MS calendar to fill appointment/reminders which is so slow as its default is always set to 'All Day' plus 'Reminder' to 4Hrs which becomes tiresome changing it everytime you want to schedule something. Chronos Calendar u fill if needed, not annoyingly defaulted for you as on MS calendar and CC+
My wife's 820 started crashing today when putting new items into the calendar. Here we go again. Hopefully a quick update will come soon
app is not opening in my phone after the update.all it does is 'resuming'
Nope, it doesn't handle region format correctly. It uses region to set time... Not region format as it should. So set Us region (for certain things i want) and Swedish Region format and it shoes 5pm and not 17.00 as it should. How can they miss this simple thing? It took months before they even acknowledge this was an error.... Welcome to outsiders of US...
I also noticed, when you go to add a location to a calendar event, it now knows your recent and nearby places to fill it in FOR YOU!!
The biggest single failing is the inability to enter a repeating event with an end date. I had hoped for that in an update. One example - today I arranged a series of conference calls, at 10.00 am every day next week, Monday to Friday. I can put the event in for Monday, I can have it repeat every weekday - but every day forever not every day until Friday then stop. So to do it on my phone I have to enter 5 separate identical events. Even worse when you have to scroll through to enter an event every Monday for a few weeks (but not forever).
I can enter it perfectly on my ipad, it talks nicely to outlook up there in cloudland, and displays perfectly on my windows phone and my win 8.1 laptop. So why can't I enter it properly on my phone?
It really does render the windows calendar pretty useless as a business tool. I can only aassune that the designers don't actually use the product in their work environment. Maybe every Microsoft engineer reaches for his ipad to make calendar entries - who knows.
They need to work on the Pin to Start it should show more info similar to Cal.
The calendar app is great, and good to have week numbers. Too bad however that they introduced a bug in the live tile even though it has no new functionality. My next appointment is an all day event tomorrow (thursday). The live tile mentions this appointment, telling me it's on wednesday (which it is today). My other Lumia with the old Calendar app does not have this bug, it says it's tomorrow. Seems to happen only with all day events in the main calendar.
Still a pathetic and ugly calendar. It's the one aspect of windows phone I am not proud to show off.
Easy to have an opinion on design, trust me, everyone have one. Harder to give constructive criticism...
Super update ! Try changing "First day of the week" - sunday and look at february month view that looks cool. I saw few people posting the beauty of february month view from iOS cal in twitter TG for the update.
Arrrgh! WTF? Tasks/to-do still don't show inline with agenda or on the tile. Didn't WP8 calendar do this or am I remembering it wrong?
Did they fix the time zone issue and all-day event Google Cal syncing issue? Until then, it's unusable.
Simple Calendar rocks, It's lockscreen is really great!
Okay. Call me an idiot but if MS is working on Outlook Calendar for default calendar app (at least that is my understanding), then why are they still working on current calendar app? MS has some serious organizational problems.
It's a very minor update to keep the masses someway happy for the next ten months.
updated the app about 8 hours ago and the live tile still only shows "calendar" and the icon. no date or events.
Which calendar app is best for working with appointments in different time zones?
The calendar app would be perfect if the live tile showed more than (1) event, and in month/week view, today, the entire day should be better highlighted, maybe it should be white, instead of just having a tiny blue triangle in the corner of the date. It's hard to find out sometimes.
Ever since I updated to 8.1, my calendar app have not functioned properly. Apparently, The app icon says that it's installing, but it has been like that ever since my update. Now it is showing error whenever I download the app. What should I do? Thanks.
Unfortunately to my knowledge a phone reset is needed. Had this issue once too....
Still no customizable reminder times.
Are there new choices? It seems like the 18hr and 4hr reminders weren't there before. I can't remember.
I think you're getting it confused with the snooze options.
This is one eshkellent update.
Finally. Would be nice if they could fix so that calendar actually honor the regional format specified for the phone. Now I see date and time in US format because the phone language is set to that, but I have the region format set to Swedish.
Finally there's one MS calendar with week numbers. But its kinda odd that you can change when and how the week numbers start. Isn't that universal?
I long left for Cal
I hope the update makes it more aesthetically pleasing and simpler to use.
I'm surprised the calendar has gotten so little love, considering how good email is. While these are great updates, I'd like the large tile to show more than one appointment.
Cannot believe, still no more than one event in the tile !!! :(
Man, it's so hard to add more appointment on the live tile?
we must sign a petition ;)
A really welcomed update. Did the live tile also got some much needed love? As in more than 1 appointment to show?
Still missing the landscape modus
This is cool. Plus, for me at least, this is the fastest launch time the calendar as achieved since updating to WP8.1 dev prev
Great!!
Weird to see an update since the app complete changes inn Windows 10.
Looking forward to a whole new app. This one blows.
Hey guys..how to update the app without using the QR code?
Search???????
I hope ms can add week number on the tile, it's important for us who lives in Sweden. Thanks ms for this update.
Microsoft calendar sucks. Am I the only one who wants Landscape? Am I the only one who does things, has appointments every other week? My Daily Planner has these two functions and you can read them in the month view
This planet has about 7 billion people living on it. Everytime you ask "am I the only one..." chances are the answer would be "no".
I'm with you. I have so many appointments I could not live without a calendar but this app does suck. It's only saving grace is that it synchronizes with outlook on my desktop.
Verizon hurry up
Week numbers has been sorely missed; it's usage is very common where I live...
I don't get why everybody is so excited about week numbers. Why would you possibly care about a week number?
Totally needed an update.
Does it crash when adding a new event, again?
Crashes on new entry as of today (on an 820). Presume not possible to roll back?
Wow, but seriously where is denim??
So what are the little square looking boxes next to each event? Anyone know what they do or why they are there?
I think they're just colour codes so you can see where the data is coming from (your personal outlook, your work outlook, Facebook, etc.)
The live tile deserves an update too, to show more than one item at a time
Needed this...
This update is a bit buggy... I am now unable to see any appointment earlier than 2 pm in the day view.
I can't scroll up to see my morning.
However, I can see all my appointments if I select the brand new agenda view.
So I guess it's a good thing it was added in this update.
Does it now show all events from Google calendar?
Can we set biweekly reminders yet?
Nice update, I would love to see live tile improvements next.
I wanted a goto option to jump to any dates without much sliding.
Still no ability to set custom repeatable events. They had this back in WP8 app, nice to see it back.
Exactly
I wish MS would bring back the "zooming' capability.... something that the company created BTW.
Looks good but a Denim update would look a lot better right now; I find it odd how they released it to the majority of the EU 3 weeks ago, yet still haven't updated the remaining regions. -__-
I really like current calendar look and feel, I hope that it won't be broken in W10, but looks like it will be reworked :'(
Retarded. I want Cortana, 24h clock and fucking celcius. Ever heard of fucking Europe, Microsoft?
You think they will listen to feedback delivered like that?
I was in a bad mood at the time :P
Problem is you cant combine Cortana, 24h clock and celsius. Or maybe you can. But last time I choose UK or Canada I had trouble with using my current payment options. Maybe I should give it another try.
24 h clock is already there, celcius as well. But I agree, Microsoft should have figured out by now that they are a world player and they should tailor their products to that. Missing the basics for other parts of the world does not help sales. Even odder considering most WP users live outside the USA.
Yeah. If you choose UK. 24h (and celsius)can not be chosen when using US settings.
Agreed (though I'd like to say it politely). I'm a bit tired of seeing products demoed using an obsolete temperature scale used in one country only, but assuming we want it just because we set the phone to English is ridiculous. This needs to be a universal preference - along with date and time format. I like US English fine but want 24 h, Celsius, and D-M-Y or ISO Y-M-D and NOT Fahrenheit, AM/PM, and M-D-Y.
Having said that, the week numbers are definitely a step in the right direction. Thanks, Microsoft!
Did they fix how the Facebook events? It shows invited only. If I toggle invited off it shows nothing.
I heard a couple comments at the Windows 10 event that makes me believe that Microsoft is going to make Outlook part of Windows and not part of Office. Meaning Outlook will take the place of seperate apps for calandar and email. Did anyone else get that same thought?
Nice. Would be better if tasks were displayed in the Agenda view too. Maybe in the new Outlook.
I really wish I could pin the task (todo list)
Live tile is STILL showing only one item. STILL FAIL IMO.
Please show more than one event on the live tile. All I want from this app.
So they didn't break it this time? Perfy
Very nice. I sent in my tip a little late it seems. And like others, there was no change log when I initially went to update....hmmm....
nice to see native app updated. Tried it out, but for daily use I still find myself going back to Chronos.
Sooo happy to get agenda view... Just wish the would add a default reminder setting so I don't have to manually change it everytime I enter an event...
Bummer. New Year's Eve falls on a weeknight at the end of the century.
I don't like the view of agenda. It's little bit messy for me.
Agenda view is just what I was looking for. Can we have it show the current day at the top instead of Sunday/Monday or whatever you have for the first day of the week? I no longer care what happend on Monday when its Tuesday. I know complain, complain. :-)
If you change to day view and have agenda view you will only see the current day. Swipe left or right to go to next day or previous day.
Agree, frustrating to scroll down everytime you open the calendar. Could set to Day, but then you loose the overview of tomorrow. Nice update, though. Like the week number. don't understand why this have to be configurable. Shouldn't this be something tied to the culture? Maybe I'm missing something
I hope the W10 version will look more like this rather than the Christmas tree mess of colors it had in Joe B."s demo...
LMAO you know it will ;-)
That color mess is how you differentiate between calendars... One color for each calendar, makes it easier if more than one thing pops up to decide which is more important, at least for me
I agree with you, but I like the dash system of color that is in the calendar app now (for phone). What was previewed by J.B. Was too colorful and had excessive amounts of white space. I hope, at least, they have an option to use a dark theme.
It looks, to you, as a "Christmas tree" because it will finally allow users to take advantage of the "Categories"... something that Outlook users have enjoyed for years. You do not like it, do not use it. Simple as that.
It's about time!
I even didn't know they could update just the Calendar.
Now you know :)
And knowing is half the battle.
Sad thing is it has taken them so long. Live tile needs a rework too..
What do people use week numbers for? What purpose, may I ask?
In Norway week number is often shown in timetables and weekly "customer newspaper".
In school we often had some classes that changed depending on the week, so if the week number was an even number we would have class A and if the week number was an odd number we would have class B. Vacation may also show as a week number since they usually last whole weeks.
Sometimes it's easier to use one number than a range of dates.
In my company week numbers are used as deadlines for some projects to be completed.
Easy way to divide the calendar. If 365 is to big to scroll through, and 12 to few. How about 52? Company's and School's use it OFTEN. Its something you will encounter alot sometimes and sometime not hear about it for awhile. But in work life you should get used to it.
I missed something. Did they break the Calendar into it's own app in the App Store with Windows Pone 8.0 or 8.1?
Yes, they did with 8.1, if i remember
Would be nice though if I could Edit my google cal. Says you can. But it goes right back to old schedule
Check
Finally agenda view
So, now we can have Sunday be the first day in week view? GOOD!
the fact that it still has such a useless live tile is crazy. It is thier own app. How can simple calender be THAT much better.
It is a shame
Still... The App "Pocal" is/looks 10x better than that. Just try it!!!
Bro, i owe you a beer for the app suggestion :) I just download the app, looks very promising :)
Oh and the swipe left gesture for Overview and swipe right to regular View is awesome :)
Does it have more than one item showing on the live tile?
Dunno, it's the same design of the live tile as for the stock calendar, but at the moment i have only 1 appointment showing for tomorrow and don't have any other in the next week, so i can't tell if can show more than 1 item on the live tile.
Thank you for getting back to me, I appreciate it.
You welcome :)
Live Tile needs to show more items...
An okay update, however still can't set an end date for recurring entries lol. For example going to the gym every Tuesday for 6 months... Setting it every Tuesday treats it as an perpetual entry therefore throws an error.
If you create the event online thru your Live MS account, you can make it reoccurring (with an end date), multi-day AND with a start and end time and date. Plus other features Phone calendar creation doesn't have. Syncs automatically to your phone calendar too. Reoccurring too.
You have to think to business users with exchange. They must now add a full sync option for all time. It can't be, that you can't go back more then two weeks and forward more than six months! I know a lot of users who says: If there no change in this way I'll go to iPhone ore android, because in the business that's a no go!!! And I agree, but not will not change the system. But it's a BIG FAULT by Microsoft in this way...
Yes, this is a huge fault and such an easy fix, along with a search function within the calendar. Google does both of these very well & if I switch to Android, this will be the reason. Please MS, I'm begging you to keep me on WP with simple and very basic features!
The calendar integration in Wp is about the only thing keeping me on board with WP. Don't think I could live without it. Glad to see there updating it.
Nice one
Chronos calendar + is miles better
I just found it and am trying it right now so far looks good... $2.49 not bad, but to bad MS can't do the same....bare bones is not going to cut it if they want to get more market share
I agree 100%. Chronos + is THE BEST calendar app out there, in my opinion. The developer is amazing as well. Very responsive to feedback.
Swedish quality :)
Even regular Chronos is great for my Calendar choice.
Sweet. Updates welcome MS.
Wonderful, update hit my mobile just minutes before article. Thanks for overview.
I have not used the default calender app for a while. The live tile used to just show the next appointment instead of the next serveral. Is that still the case?
Very sad to say but yes it is
I was just wondering about an update because earlier opening calendar crashed my phone smh
Finally Week numbers!!
Strange. I downloaded the update but still only see the four views previously available (day, week, month, year).
Select day or week view, then get the menu "..." and select "show agenda".
Go into calendar settings, scroll way down and tick week numbers.
Unintuitively, 'agenda view' isn't in the views setting, along with the other 'views'. It's been added as a toggle from the ... menu, either 'show agenda' or 'show calendar'.
I know it's an update, yay, but this is dumb UI.
I see. So they did actually add both daily and weekly agenda views. Pretty clever actually if not immediately obvious.
I'm with you, I see nothing. My default view is week view and I see no option for agenda. Actually I tried ask views and didn't see agenda anywhere.
Touch the three dots (toggle) and you will see it at the bottom... Once it is in agenda of you want calendar back do the same and touch month
I miss the proper Agenda View (not limited to a specific range), but we finally have week numbers!
I still cant add my school timetable to it -_-
Where is your school time table stored?
At school.
Well I have it as both pdf and excell sheets. I want to be able to add it manually to the calendar as weekly events.
Then add it manually. Those aren't even standard calendar formats. How would you expect them to infer calendar items from a format that would be impossible to interpret as a calendar. *sigh*
I would have long added them manually & wouldn't have had to download a 3rd party app if the calendar had met my needs. I'm not aware of any calendar formats
Oh, just found out how to do it
Smart boy :)
I thought about this too, maybe it will happen eventually.
Not manually though..
Sacrilege I know but create a google account, add your school calendar there then add that account to your phone....i just had to do that for my work calendar... smh that MS is so far behind on this
You can do that without resorting to Google. Go to https://calendar.live.com/calendar/import.aspx, select cSubscribe, and go from there. Your subscribed calendar will show up n your phone in minutes.
Last week I manually created a 2 re-occurring calendar events for school every Monday & Wednesday online FROM A DESKTOP/LAPTOP/TABLET on Live's calendar. Even put my school's address in the location area so Cortana will make sure I'm not late for school by notifying me when I have to leave, as well as updating her tile showing how long it'll take to get to class.
Yeah exactly! It is like people forget they have a Microsoft ID for apps.
In my case at least, the ID started as an e-mail account back in the Hotmail days ( I signed up before Microsoft purchased the Hotmail company!! Those were the days ;-) ). I bet some people here on WindowsCentral were not even born then.
However, for a very long time, the account has included an Outlook Calendar online, as well as Contacts and such. You don't have to enter calendar events tediously on your phone if you have a long list of items to enter. Just use a computer and let it sync to your phone's calendar through the Microsoft account.
What is the use of this when we get a totally new calendar app with w10?
Well sir, W10 hasn't quite arrived yet. Hence, this update. To allow us to use it while we wait.
And the time format is still broken. Showing AM and PM instead of 24 hour format.
Not with me (in Belgium) and it never was broken.
You don't use cortana I guess
That could be it.
If i choose English US in Language settings it will show AM and PM, but if i choose English UK, i have the 24 hours format. And for me also this was never broken, Calendar was working perfectly when i was on WP8 GDR3 and now with the new Calendar app on WP8.1.1 (no PfD)
The annoying thing is that the calendar uses the language and not the time setting the phone uses. I have English US and 11:00 on my phone but the calendar must show 11AM and no way to change it.
Have you tried to go to Settings>date+time and check 24-hours clock and then check the callendar time? just a suggestion.
Of course I've tried. Trust me I know every setting in WP. When you put US region for cortana it always takes AM and PM. When you use UK region the time format in the calendar is fixed but other things are annoying (forgot what) so I'll stick with the US region.
are you complaining because you can't read the time on am pm? wow... what a great feedback /s
i want to be like you.... complaining about not having a format, like if the time changed if it's 12 or 24 hours format or 96 hours format. it's the same. but yeah, it's too broken we can't use Calendar app /s
also it's your settings... but I am sure you never tried it. we know it, but yeah too broken.
Oh as long as something is not completely unusable it is good? Great thinking! It's not my settings, its fundamentally broken. It is annoying and inconsistent.
Emi, have a beer :) chill
Well, isn't life wonderful? People complaining about app updates. Not because the update is bad or broken or buggy. You're complaining because there is an update. You're intrigued by the fact an update happened. Congratulations, my friend. Your life must be awesome.
Well imo they waited too long. They are kinda lazy updating their apps. And now 2 weeks before we can get w10 they update lol.
Yah because 90% of WP users will get 10 in the next few weeks....
LOL, Right :)
Maybe because average users will not see WM10 till October/December?...
Uh....is it just me or did the live tile stop working? Mine used to show the next appointment, now its just the calendar icon. (medium live tile)
I love this!
I'm still hoping they will allow pin to start of todo list.
Or you know, more than one item at a time on the live tile. It's retarded how gimped and rudimentary their calendar app is.
Especially compared to wm6.5
Never understood why the tile couldn't just flip over to show all day events...or why the font couldn't be just a bit bigger so it can be seen better (especially with all that blank space).
I guess if the Tile shows too much info you would never enter the app, and that is needed from time to time for it to work. Live Tiles stops working after a while if you never enter the apps, maybe that has been fixed now but thats how it worked before IIRC.
This. I am using WeekView 8.1 which does that. But seriously, why can't MS have this built in?
Wunderlist lets you pin any list and works as live tile.
Yes, please update the todo list to allow pinning to desktop! And filter by category or priority! And allow drag to prioritize!
windows 10 maybe they are implementing in it. so lets wait
Remember, in the Insider program they encourage you to leave feedback about Windows 10. You can tell Microsoft all your wishes and if they like what you tell them, you might have a chance to get it implemented. Since it is free and, like I just said, encouraged at this point, feedback is worth submitting because they will at least read your ideas. I mean, normally when you send feedback in, they might be busy doing something else, but now they are lined up to listen to the public, the users.
My recommendation is, see if there is a feedback button or menu in the Windows 10 Calendar app. Then post the ideas from there. Either that, or get the message out while logged in as an Insider in the Insider Hub, perhaps.
Good point. But we are talking about calendar in windows phone 8.1 not 10.
I'm also hoping that they would add that feature to pin a live tile for Tasks. Preferably, that live tile should display the most urgent tasks. And tapping that live tile should launch the Calendar app and go directly to Tasks.
Create a to-do list in OneNote. Then pin to start for quick access. You still have to open that tile each time, and it's not a live-tile, but...
You can create tasks in Cortana and it'll show up and sync in your calendar.
Been waiting for this ever since I got rid of my iPhone.
Week numbers! At last!
Nice indeed! Wish I could ser it on the live tile as well, also with more lines of daily agenda. Please add 24h format and light theme.
Light theme is available only when u chose light theme to ur phone. Under settings, start+theme
24h time format is set system-wide in Settings > date + time. Calendar respects your seeing there.
Maybe if you're in the US it does. It does not work for me either.
It's a well known issue that came bundled with the offset times for events in the day view and some other bug that I can't remember right now.
Does landscape mode work?
no, it doesn't :)
Where did you get that changelog :o
Looks like directly from the app page in the store. Go figure.
Wasn't there before.
A much needed update indeed
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