Everything you need to know about the iOS Calendar app

Many are the native applications that we find in iOS, and until the betas of update 10 could not be eliminated. Among the most important are the photo gallery, the Apple Music app and the Calendar. Today I will talk about the Calendar, its functions, its usefulness, its characteristics and its integration with iCloud and with our contacts.

Learn how to get the most out of the Calendar app on your iPhone, iPad and also your Mac, thanks to the perfect synchronization of the Apple ecosystem. Have all your events and dates registered and never forget birthdays. Following.

Much more than a calendar for iOS

We are not talking about a simple place to check dates and days. We are talking about the organization of all your events, your appointments and your day to day, both in the future and in the past. Add events, set the exact time and details. Include your contacts and family members in them so that no one forgets and everyone attends celebrations and parties. Set and consult the country's holidays and much more. These are some of the functions that you can do in the native Calendar app and that will come in handy in your day to day:

• Add events from your appointments, celebrations, festivities. Mark everything that is going to happen on your calendar, the best way not to miss anything.
• Birthdays, holidays and Facebook events. The information from your social networks and your contacts is automatically added to the Calendar, it is the best way to mark days such as birthdays and never forget them again. "You didn't congratulate me, you don't care about me" is something we don't like to hear, avoid it by having everything in one place and allowing notifications to alert you when it is a special day.
• Synchronize everything on all your devices. iCloud makes it very easy and it is really comfortable.
• Add your contacts to events and nobody gets lost.
• Many new features are coming with iOS 10 and with the updates. We can add events from messages we write or texts from emails sent to us. It is becoming easier and more comfortable. In addition to establishing location and more.
• Ask Siri. Tell the iOS assistant to create an event and edit it without touching the screen. Hands-free, Hey Siri, on iPhone 6s and iPhone SE.

Productivity in iOS and its native apps

Little by little, native applications are improving and reaching a level where third-party applications are not always recommended against them. Many prefer to use other apps to manage, for example, notes or reminders and to-do lists, but the truth is that native apps work very well, they work perfectly with Siri and with iCloud synchronization.

Add an event or edit another from your iPhone and you will automatically have it edited in the iPad Pro, iPod Touch, Mac, and iCloud Web with any computer. This is how iCloud works, in a simple, intuitive and comfortable way. Make the most of native apps and if in any function you consider that it falls short, go to one of third parties. The best official Apple productivity apps you'll find in iOS 10 are: Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Mail, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iCloud Drive, iMovie, and GarageBand. They have been free for a few years and my recommendation is that you try them as soon as possible if you have not been using them.

In my day to day, I use the calendar a lot to mark completion dates for some tasks related to my projects. It is a very good way of knowing how to manage the weeks and months, as well as being aware of events that I have to go to and birthdays. I do not know what we would do without a calendar on our mobile devices, it seems very basic to me. Since Apple devices cost us a lot Let's get the most out of it and enjoy its benefits.