{"id":578,"date":"2010-01-23T22:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T05:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:31","slug":"how-to-really-change-the-calendar-colors-on-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/how-to-really-change-the-calendar-colors-on-your-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to (really) change the calendar colors on your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone doesn&#8217;t (easily) let you change the colors of your calendar items. Couple this with the fact that there are lots of ways to setup calendar sync&#8217;ing, and it&#8217;s easy to get discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>For me, my work calendar and my personal calendar both showed up as nearly the same shade of red. Fail.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I fixed it. This only works if you have the following situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPhone OS 3.0 or newer<\/li>\n<li>Using Google Calendar with CalDAV (<b>not<\/b> Exchange)<\/li>\n<li>Note: I use Exchange for my work calendar and Google for my personal calendar, and I want them <b>both<\/b> on my iPhone with different colors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Steps to change the color (this takes about 5 minutes if nothing goes wrong).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open iCal on your Mac (don&#8217;t have a Mac? Maybe Mozilla Sunbird can do this too)<\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to your Google Calendar (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/calendar\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=99358#ical\">instructions to do this<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the sidebar, notice your new calendar appears<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ical-with-google.png\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Right-click on the new calendar and select <b>Get Info<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Now change the color to what you want<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: -55px\" src=\"\/images\/ical-with-google-color.png\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Do nothing, and in a couple minutes your iPhone calendar items will have the new color<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get iCal setup, don&#8217;t fret. It does work. Double check your URL you typed to subscribe to your Google Calendar. Don&#8217;t forget the &#8220;\/user&#8221; at the end. Follow Google&#8217;s instructions (see link above) very closely.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone doesn&#8217;t (easily) let you change the colors of your calendar items. Couple this with the fact that there are lots of ways to setup calendar sync&#8217;ing, and it&#8217;s easy to get discouraged. For me, my work calendar and my personal calendar both showed up as nearly the same shade of red. Fail. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-and-cruft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}