Find Settings
Open InstaCal’s main menu and choose Settings. Each row opens a focused page, and changes apply immediately.
Calendars and accounts
Calendars controls visibility, default destination, order, local color overrides, reminder lists, import/export and availability tools. Accounts manages system permission plus direct Google and Microsoft connections.
Calendar Order affects events that begin together, including all-day and multi-day bars in Month and widgets.
Events and notifications
Events settings choose default duration, alert and calendar behavior.
Alerts controls event and reminder delivery, fallback alerts for items with no saved alert, all-day alert time, invitations, travel time and the next-event Live Activity. To avoid duplicate banners, decide whether InstaCal or Apple Calendar and Reminders should announce the same saved alert.
Alerts also holds Schedule Warnings — separate switches for event overlaps, short breaks, travel time and events outside working hours, plus the working days and hours themselves. Those settings feed both the warnings drawn on an event and Find a Time. Schedule Risk Alerts, in the same place, is what turns one of those warnings into a notification before the event starts, and Check Conflicts On lists which calendars take part in conflict checking at all.
Display, date and weather
The Display group holds Appearance, Button Layout and Gestures & Navigation. Appearance covers theme, text size, colors, agenda layout, indicators, day headers and density. Gestures & Navigation collects pinch behavior, grid scrolling, year-day taps and Haptics. Date & Time controls week start, week numbers and the optional second time zone. Weather chooses provider, location, units, graphics and moon phases.
Haptic feedback
InstaCal taps back as you work. Completing a reminder, saving or deleting an event, crossing a day as the agenda scrolls, crossing a month in the grid, the bar buttons and the switcher menu's rows each carry their own weight, and the compact switcher's press-and-hold jump taps hardest of all. A delete that fails does not feel like one that worked.
Choose the strength under Settings → Display → Gestures & Navigation → Haptics: Off, Subtle or Standard. Picking a level plays it, so you judge each option by feel. Off silences every haptic in the app.
Focus Filters
Under Settings → Calendar Sets, enable the sets allowed for Focus Filters. Then open the system Settings → Focus, choose a Focus, add an InstaCal filter and select the Calendar Set to activate. InstaCal restores the previous selection when the Focus ends.
