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| Developer | Apple |
| Stable release | macOS: 15.0 |
| Operating system | macOS,iOS,watchOS,iPadOS andvisionOS |
| Type | Calendaring software |
| Website | support |
Calendar is a personalcalendar app made byApple for itsmacOS,iOS,iPadOS,watchOS andvisionOSoperating systems. It offers online cloud backup of calendars using Apple'siCloud service, or can synchronize with other calendar services, includingGoogle Calendar andMicrosoft Exchange Server.
The macOS version was known asiCal before the release ofOS X Mountain Lion in July 2012. Originally released as a free download forMac OS X Jaguar, on September 10, 2002, it was bundled with the operating system as iCal 1.5 with the release ofMac OS X Panther. iCal was the first calendar application forMac OS X to offer support for multiplecalendars and the ability to intermittently publish/subscribe to calendars onWebDAV servers. Version 2 of iCal was released as part ofMac OS X Tiger, Version 3 as part ofMac OS X Leopard, Version 4 as part ofMac OS X Snow Leopard, Version 5 as part ofMac OS X Lion, Version 6 as part ofOS X Mountain Lion, Version 7 as part ofOS X Mavericks, Version 8 as part ofOS X Yosemite andOS X El Capitan, and version 9 as part ofmacOS Sierra.
Apple licensed the iCal name from Brown Bear Software, who have used it for their iCal application since 1997.[1]
iCal's initial development was quite different from other Apple software: it was designed independently by a small French team working "secretly" inParis, led byJean-Marie Hullot, a friend ofSteve Jobs. iCal's development has since been transferred to Apple US headquarters inCupertino.[2]
Calendar tracks events andappointments, allows multiple calendar views (such as calendars for "home", "work", and other calendars that a user can create) to quickly identify conflicts and free time.[3] Users cansubscribe to other calendars so they can keep up with friends and colleagues, and other things such as athletic schedules and television programs, as well as set notifications for upcoming events either in theNotification Center,[4] byemail,SMS, orpager. Attachments and notes can be added to iCloud Calendar items.[5]
It is integrated withiCloud, so calendars can be shared and synced with other devices, such as other Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPod touch, and PCs over theinternet. One can also share calendars via theWebDAV protocol. Google now supportsWebDAV forGoogle Calendar making Calendar easily configurable.[6]
Calendar includes the ability to see travel time and weather at the event's location, with the ability to set an alarm based on the travel time.[7] Different time zones can be selected when entering and editing start and end times. This allows long-distance airplane flight times, for example, to be entered accurately and for that "end" of a visualized time "box" to render accurately on eitheriOS ormacOS when time zone support is turned on in Calendar and the time zone set in Date/Time to the location in question.
Calendar support was added toCarPlay withiOS 13, allowing Siri to display and read out a user's upcoming events while driving.[8]
The app icon shows the device's current date when viewed from thehome screen, making it one of the only iOS apps with a dynamic icon (the other beingClock).
On theWWDC 2023 Apple introduced theApple Vision Pro and the operating system visionOS with the Apple Calendar.
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