Hello.
On Iphone built-in calendar app, I wanted to add an event to occur on last day of the month for every month. No matter if that last day is 31, 30 or 28, sometimes 29 (February). If I choose a month with 31 days and set the event to repeat every month, months with 30 days and February are left out.
I've read some discussions and people said that the solution might be to put the end of the month on 28 to iclude February.
They also suggested to set the event on first day and set a notification on the day before the event.
Another option might be to set the same event on the end for eah month.
All these solutions are not what I want. Last day means last day and not one day after or one or even a few days before the last day.
Events can be set for every day, every week, every two months, three months, six months..., every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..., on first day, second day, third day of the month etc., so why not on the last day?
Please, if possible, could the beta testers report it and ask the IOS developers to implement the option?
Thanks.
By Maya, 31 August, 2023
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iOS and iPadOS
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Step-by-step guide
Hi, I'm sighted so I don't know if this will be possible using VO, but it is present for me by doing the following in the Calendar app on my iPhone running iOS 16.6:
1. Create a new event (or edit an existing one).
2. For Repeat, select Custom.
3. For Frequency, select Monthly and Every Month.
4. For the On the... option, select last and day in the two menus (these are side-by-side dials in the visible interface).
5. Go back to the New Event panel to save the settings for the Repeat and add or edit the rest of the entry.
I haven't seen that ellipsis in months.
I have several meetings that take place, say on the first and third, or second and fourth, pick whatever day, of the month, and it is impossible to set them up anymore. Some months may have five Mondays, or whatever, so you can't set that up. It's irritating to learn that this is a Voiceover issue, I have been complaining to Apple Accessibility for the last couple of years, and it's still an issue. On the other hand, I'm glad they didn't completely revamp the calendar so nobody can set up events the way they like them.
Completely doable with VO
Disclaimer: I am 100% sightless, and I can do this with VO on my iPhone.
These steps are a little tedious, but completely worth it if you need this type of repeating event. Follow these steps:
1. Create a new event (I recommend Siri for efficiency).
2. Open your Calendar, and find your newly created event.
3. Double tap on Edit.
4. Swipe over to the 'date picker', double tap here.
5. Choose a month and the last day of said month (i.e. 31 of May).
6. Swipe to the right and choose 'Custom'.
7. Swipe right and choose the following 'picker items': 'Frequency: monthly', 'Every: month', 'Each: (Ignore this!)', 'On the: Last' 'Day'
8. Swipe left all the way back to the beginning of this screen, and double tap 'Edit event, back button'.
9. Change whatever's clever in your event that needs changing, including all day or time specifics, title, invitees, etc.
10. Win.
HTH. 😁
Call Apple accessibility instead of just writing messages and co
I would prefer that people actually call Apple accessibility at 1-877-204-3930. That is the United States phone number. I’m sure there’s a phone number for everybody’s local region. Calling them and having them be forced to deal with these issues directly means that they would be more likely to actually fix them. Please stop just writing down messages and submitting comments. Call them directly. Let your problem be their problem. Make them turn on voiceover and actually go through these issues with you. I don’t care if there’s a language barrier. That’s on them. Call them. And call them repeatedly. I don’t like the fact that when I call them, there’s no wait. The Apple accessibility phone number has a direct line to the engineers. Calling them and making them submit reports means that the engineers will have to look at these issues and actually email or call you back to give you feedback in progress update until they’re actually fix