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learjet

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In the newly redesigned stock iOS Calendar.app Month/List view, there are color coded bars that represent your appointments on a certain day (at least that‘s the idea).

What I can‘t wrap my head around: What are the color combinations based on? There‘s no discernible connection to the actual schedule of appointments on a certain day. Furthermore, there seems to be no relation to your list of all-day-appointments.

The only criteria seems to be, that different calendars (colors) are grouped together somehow, when scheduled on a certain day.

Can anyone explain?

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teeshot44

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The colors are representative of the source of the event. In the open app tap the word “calendar “ at the bottom and you can see the source your events are coming from and their respective representative color.
 
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CPTmom2wp

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Just downloading the update right now, so guessing........Colors based on your own calendar entry colors, e.g., my own pull down menu to color code my calendar entries includes green for any appointments, tasks having to do with finances; yellow for family calendar entries; brown for remodeling, house tasks; pink for vacation travel etc. Perhaps those colors are what show up on bar.
 

learjet

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That‘s clear so far, thank you, regarding that a color only appears if you have an appointment of a certain calendar on a certain day. But the order or pattern of colors follows no discernible logic?
 

waw74

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it's in order of the day

all day events are the left maybe third of the bar. (actual width seems to vary by the number of all day events you have)
The rest of it is the span of the day.

so on the 7th, I'd say you have an event on your yellow calendar from 10-5 or something. With maybe an all day event on your gray calendar

on on the 2nd, you've got a yellow event towards the end of the day.
 

learjet

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it's in order of the day

all day events are the left maybe third of the bar. (actual width seems to vary by the number of all day events you have)
The rest of it is the span of the day.

so on the 7th, I'd say you have an event on your yellow calendar from 10-5 or something. With maybe an all day event on your gray calendar

on on the 2nd, you've got a yellow event towards the end of the day.
Hi, that's the logical explanation, thank you. That's what I thought, at the beginning. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be (entirely) true .

What do I mean by that? A few examples. This is fun. :)

I have three calendars. Personal (blue), job-related (orange) and education-related (red).
  • On Nov. 1st, I have five all-day-events, three blue and two orange (that's the display order for that day). iOS shows a bar with blue, orange, blue and orange.
  • On Nov. 3rd, I have one blue all-day-event and eleven orange all-day-events (that's the display order for that day). iOS shows a long orange bar, a tiny blue speck and than again a pretty long orange bar.
  • On Nov. 5th, I have two blue all-day-events, four orange all-day-events, and five orange scheduled events (that's the display order for that day). iOS shows a tiny orange bar, a tiny blue bar, a longer orange bar, a tiny blue bar and a longer orange bar.
  • On Nov. 6th, I have three blue all-day-events and one orange all-day-event (that's the display order for that day). iOS shows a longer blue bar, a longer orange bar and a tiny blue speck.
Can anyone explain? For the record, these are Google Calendars. There seems to be a long running bug regarding the Google Calendar event order, which isn't correctly displayed by the Mac-iCal-App (iCal orders all-day-events differently, doesn't sort them alphabetically). But this doesn't explain these iOS color coded bars, which seem to follow yet another logic.
 
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