Week on Week, and paging on iPad
A new Week on Week view lines the same weekday up across seven weeks on the Mac, Week and Day page under a swipe on iPad, and Google and Outlook sync now rides out a rate limit instead of failing on first touch.
Everything in this release
- Countdowns keep the dates that matter in sight. Add any calendar event, or a date that lives nowhere else, and watch it from the desktop, a widget or the menu bar itself. One set on a repeating event follows the series, so a birthday or a weekly review rolls forward on its ownMac
- Ten widgets, each configured on its own — agenda, month, next event, now and next, week map, days ahead, countdowns and reminders, every one with its own calendar set, theme, text size, privacy and weather. And they act without opening the app: flip through months, page a busy day in place, look ahead a week at a time, and check off a reminder right on the widgetMac
- Invitations keep asking until you answer. A bell holds every unanswered one, including those on a calendar you have hidden, and you reply with Accept, Maybe or Decline from the agenda row, from a right-click on the calendar, or from the invitation itself. A meeting you have not answered is drawn as unanswered rather than settled, and one you declined stops taking up your dayMac
- Repeating events on Google and Outlook calendars now ask the question Apple's have always had: change this event only, or all future events? Editing, deleting, rescheduling and dragging in the grid all offer the choice, guests hear about what changed, and replying to one occurrence of a repeating invitation answers for the whole seriesMac
- Plan around what is already there. Availability Sharing turns your open times into text, images, PDFs or calendar files without publishing your calendar. Conflict Blocking mirrors private events onto another calendar as generic Busy blocks, details left behind. Schedule warnings flag overlaps, travel pressure and short breaks as notifications before the crunch rather than after itMac
- Smart Filters turn a search, a set of calendars, rules and view settings into a workspace you can return to. A rule can require a word or exclude one, match the hour an event starts or the day of the week, and your filters wait in the View menu with a shortcut key of your own. Calendar Sets can follow your Focus modes, and quiet hours hold back every kind of interruption until the window closesMac
- A new Week on Week view lines up the same weekday from seven weeks side by side — every Monday in a row — so the shape of the weeks ahead stands out at a glance. Switch it on in Settings, then slide the row a week at a time with a swipe or the arrow buttonsMac
- The menu bar panel is yours to arrange. Drag its toolbar buttons into the order you want, hide the ones you never press, and put an Up Next bubble above them naming what is next and how long you haveMac
- VoiceOver reads the calendar rather than its pieces. Every agenda row, month chip, time-grid block and list row is one spoken sentence with its controls on the actions rotor, around seventy icon-only buttons gained real names, and Reduce Motion is honoured throughoutMac
- Google and Outlook sync stands sturdier: a rate limit or server hiccup retries itself with the service's own back-off, Teams meetings keep their join links through an edit, other guests' replies survive yours, and an account's calendars are read in full however many there areMac
- Calendars come in and out freely: import and export .ics files with a duplicate preview before anything is written, print what you are looking at, open and add event attachments, and keep Google and Outlook colours, categories, privacy and guest permissions intactMac
- On iPad, Week and Day page under a swipe — a whole calendar week at a time in Week, with your selection keeping its weekday and the sidebar's mini month following alongiOS
- Quarter on iPad draws its months as distinct cards and stays put when you rotate the deviceiOS
- Month scrolling on iPhone and iPad is smoother, with no periodic catch in a long flingiOS
- Extra Large widgets on iPad draw the Up Next and Agenda columns larger, with fewer, easier-to-read rows that fit the tileiOS
