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Settings

BusyCal's Settings screen lets you configure the app's appearance and behavior.

To open it, tap the gear icon in the upper-left corner.

Sync Now​

Tap Sync Now to sync all accounts immediately. The row shows progress while syncing, and beneath it BusyCal reports when the last sync finished. If an account is failing, the row says how many accounts are affected — tap the account in Accounts to see the error.

Calendar Sets​

A Calendar Set is a saved selection of calendars you can switch between, such as one set for work and another for personal. See Calendar Sets for how to use them day to day.

  • New Calendar Set — Create a set.
  • Your saved sets — Each row shows the set name and how many calendars it contains, with a lock if the set is protected. Tap a set to edit it. When you have more than one set, an Edit button appears so you can drag the sets into a different order. Swipe a set left to delete it; the last remaining set cannot be deleted. Opening a protected set asks for Face ID or Touch ID first.
  • Widgets & Watch — Choose which calendars your widgets and the Apple Watch app show. Leave it on Selected Calendar Set to follow whichever set is active in BusyCal, or pick a specific set to pin them to it. See Widgets & Apple Watch.

Creating and Editing a Calendar Set​

A new set has Cancel and Done; Done becomes available once you have given the set a unique name and chosen at least one calendar. Changes to an existing set are saved as you make them.

  • Name — The name of the set.
  • Override Default Calendars — Set the calendar new items go to while this set is active: Event Calendar, Task Calendar and Journal Calendar. Each picker lists only the visible, writable calendars in the set that can hold that type of item, grouped by account. Tap None to clear an override and fall back to the app-wide default from New Event Defaults.
  • Preferred View — Switch to a view whenever this set becomes active: None (the default, meaning stay where you are), List, Day, Week, Month or Tasks.
  • Require Face ID / Require Touch ID — Hide this set's events when you are viewing All Calendars until you authenticate. Changing this setting requires Face ID or Touch ID.
  • Visible Calendars — Tap Show All Calendars to add every calendar to the set, or Hide All Calendars to remove them all. Below that, calendars are grouped by account, and each account has its own Show All / Hide All row and can be collapsed. Tap a calendar to include or exclude it, and tap the "i" icon beside it to open Calendar Details. Tapping a calendar that isn't syncing yet asks whether to enable it first.

When you open a saved set, an Edit button appears at the top of the screen. Tap it to drag calendars into a different order, sort an account's calendars by name, or move a whole account up or down with the arrows on its heading. This is the order used everywhere in BusyCal, so the change applies to your other sets too. See Reordering Accounts and Calendars.

Calendar Types​

Calendars hosted on iCloud (and most CalDAV servers) are type-specific—each calendar contains either events or tasks, but not both. BusyCal indicates a task calendar by displaying "(Task Calendar)" next to its name. Event calendars sync with the Calendar app, and task calendars sync with the Reminders app.

Calendar Details​

To change a calendar's details, tap the "i" icon to the right of its name in a calendar list. The same screen opens from Calendar Sets and from an account's Calendars list. Changes take effect as you make them.

  • Name — Type a new name for the calendar. This renames it in BusyCal only.
  • Sync Attachments — Download attachments on this calendar's events. Appears only for calendars that can hold attachments.
  • Show graphic previews — Show event graphics for this calendar. On by default.
  • Alarms — Turn this calendar's alarms on or off. On by default.
  • Notify Of Changes — Show changes other people make to this calendar in your Inbox.
  • Notify Of Meetings — Show meeting notifications from this calendar in your Inbox.
  • Enable Calendar — Turn syncing for this calendar on or off. Appears for CalDAV, Exchange, Microsoft 365 and Apple Calendar calendars.
  • Show as holiday calendar — Show this calendar's all-day events italicized and pinned to the bottom of the day cell in Month view, instead of as regular all-day banners. Subscribed holiday calendars (such as Google's "Holidays in United States") have this turned on automatically, which is why their titles appear in the lower portion of the date box rather than following the usual Date and Time alignment settings. Turn it off to display that calendar's events like normal all-day events. Appears only for calendars that can hold events or journals.
  • Sync Calendar Color — Keep the color the server supplies. Turn it off to keep your own color even when the server changes its own. Appears only for accounts that supply a color.
  • Color — Choose from Cayenne, Red, Strawberry, Pink, Orange, Salmon, Yellow, Green, Teal, Asparagus, Mocha, Blue, Midnight, Orchid, Purple, Grape, Bubblegum, Plum, Steel and Black, or tap Custom to pick any color.

The last row removes the calendar, and which one you see depends on how you got the calendar:

  • Delete Calendar — Deletes the calendar and everything on it. This cannot be undone.
  • Stop Sharing — Removes a calendar someone shared with you. To get it back, ask the owner to share it again.
  • Unsubscribe — Removes a subscribed calendar, either from this device alone or from every device on the account, as the confirmation explains.

Calendars are created from the account's own calendar list. See Account Calendars.

Accounts​

To add or modify calendar accounts, tap Accounts. Your accounts are grouped under Active, Disabled and Added on Another Device, and the heading above them reports the current sync status. Tap Edit to drag the accounts in the Active list into a different order; see Reordering Accounts and Calendars. Sync Now at the bottom syncs every account.

Adding an Account​

  1. Tap Add Account…. It is the first row at the top of the Accounts screen.
  2. On the Add Account screen, find the service you want and tap the Connect button on the right side of its row. Tapping the row itself does nothing; only Connect starts the setup.
  3. Follow the steps for that service, described below.

The services are grouped like this:

  • iCloud, Google, Fastmail, Yahoo, Fruux — The common providers. iCloud China also appears if your device is set to a China time zone.
  • Microsoft Graph — Office 365 and Personal Outlook. This is the current way to connect a Microsoft account.
  • Exchange Web Services — Office 365, for older servers that need the legacy protocol.
  • Apple Calendar — Read-only access to the calendars already set up in the iOS Calendar app. Reminders and Todoist are here too. Apple Calendar and Reminders disappear from the list once you have added them.
  • CalDAV, Exchange, WebDAV — For servers that aren't listed above.
  • Meetings — GoTo, Webex and Zoom, for detecting meeting links.

What happens after you tap Connect depends on the service:

  • Todoist, GoTo, Webex and Zoom take you straight to the service to sign in.
  • Google, Office 365 and Personal Outlook ask for your email address. Tap Add, then follow the prompts to sign in on the service's own page. Allow everything it asks for; if the permissions screen shows checkboxes, turn on all of them.
  • Every other service shows a form for your sign-in details. Fill it in and tap Add. If something required is missing, BusyCal tells you which field it needs.

Once the account is added, it appears under Active on the Accounts screen and BusyCal begins syncing. If BusyCal instead says you are already connected to that service with the same login, the account already exists on this device; look for it under Disabled or Added on Another Device.

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iCloud needs an app-specific password of 16 to 19 characters — your normal iCloud password will not work. See Using BusyCal with iCloud.

Account Settings​

Tap an account to see its settings. Tap Edit to change the login fields, then Save or Cancel. Which rows appear depends on the service:

  • Enable Account — Turn syncing off for this account without removing it. Its calendars stay in the list but stop updating.
  • Title — The name shown for this account in BusyCal.
  • Apple ID / Email / Yahoo ID / User Name, and Password — The sign-in details.
  • Server Address, Calendar URL, Internal Server and External Server — Server locations for CalDAV, WebDAV and Exchange accounts. Leave the Exchange server fields empty to discover them automatically.
  • Enable Microsoft Teams Integration — Detect Teams meetings on this account. Your Office 365 administrator may need to approve this.
  • Manage Sharing — Calendars other people have shared with you, and the delegates you have granted access to. See Sharing and Delegates.
  • Public Folders — Browse an Exchange or Office 365 public folder tree and subscribe to the calendars in it. Folders that are read-only or inaccessible are marked as such.
  • Calendars — Every calendar on the account. See Account Calendars.
  • Meeting Organizer Email — Choose which of your account's email aliases is used as the organizer when you send invitations. The list comes from the aliases your provider reports; add new ones in your provider's own settings.
  • Refresh — How often BusyCal checks for changes: Push (where the service supports it), or every 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, day, week or year. Your own edits are sent immediately regardless of this setting.
  • Enable Alarms — Allow alarms from a WebDAV subscription.
  • Sync Now — Sync this account only.
  • Delete Account — Removes the account's calendars from this device. They stay on the server and on your other devices.

An account added on another device appears with a Use Account button — tap it and sign in, since passwords are not synced between devices. Remove Account discards it on this device instead.

Sharing and Delegates​

Type at least three characters in the Add Delegate field to search your organization's directory, then choose a person to give them access. Each existing delegate shows their current access; tap one to change it to Read Only, Read & Write or No Access. Swipe a delegate left and tap Remove to revoke access.

Account Types​

For information on adding and configuring various account types:

Account Calendars​

Tap an account, then tap Calendars to see every calendar in that account. From this screen you can reorder the calendars, sort them by name, open a calendar's details, and — on accounts that support it — add or delete calendars.

Calendars you are syncing show a checkmark. Tap a calendar's "i" icon to open its details. Tapping a calendar you are not syncing yet offers to enable it. If the account itself is disabled, the rows are dimmed and cannot be changed.

Creating a calendar. On accounts that support it, New Event Calendar and New Task Calendar appear at the bottom of the screen. Tap one, give the calendar a name of up to 32 characters, pick a color, and tap Done. Google accounts are the exception: Google does not allow new calendars over the sync protocol BusyCal uses, so BusyCal offers to open Google Calendar in your browser instead. Create the calendar there and it appears in BusyCal at the next sync. Accounts that do not support creation show no such rows.

Deleting a calendar. Swipe a calendar left, or tap Edit and use the delete control. Deleting is available for calendars you own on iCloud, other CalDAV servers, and Exchange. Calendars that BusyCal cannot delete — shared and subscribed calendars, family calendars, and calendars on Google, Todoist, Microsoft 365, WebDAV, and the Apple Calendar accounts — offer no delete control.

Reordering Accounts and Calendars​

Your accounts, and the calendars inside each one, appear in an order you choose. BusyCal keeps a single order and follows it everywhere, and you can change it from either the Accounts screen or a saved calendar set.

Reordering accounts. To change the order of the accounts themselves:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap Accounts.
  3. Tap Edit, then drag the accounts in the Active list into the order you want.

An account's position decides where all of its calendars appear in relation to the calendars of your other accounts.

Reordering the calendars in an account. To change the order within a single account:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap Accounts.
  3. Select the account containing the calendars.
  4. Tap Calendars.
  5. Tap Edit, then drag the calendars into the order you want.

Tap Sort Alphabetically at the top of the same screen to put the account's calendars in name order instead. These steps cover one account, so repeat them for each account whose calendars you want to reorder. The Edit button appears only when the account has more than one calendar.

Rearranging from a calendar set. You can make the same changes without leaving a saved set. Tap Calendar Sets, tap the set, then tap Edit. From there, drag a calendar to move it within its account, tap an account's Sort Alphabetically row to put that account's calendars in name order, or tap the arrows on an account's heading to move the whole account up or down. You are changing the order the rest of the app uses, not an order that belongs to that one set, so your other sets follow the change as well. The screen for creating a new set offers no rearranging, and neither does the combined Other group.

The order sets where each calendar appears in the calendar lists and calendar pickers throughout the app, including Calendar Sets and the default-calendar menus in New Event Defaults. In Day, Week and Month views it also orders all-day events that fall on the same day, and it breaks ties between items that are otherwise equal. When the Task List is sorted by Calendar, the calendar groups follow this order too. See Sorting and Filtering Tasks.

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The account and calendar order is stored on your device. It is not sent to your calendar server, so it does not carry over to BusyCal for Mac, to Google Calendar, or to your other devices. Set the order on each device where you want it.

Show in Calendar​

Controls which types of information are visible in your calendar.

  • Show Tasks in Calendar — Task display in the calendar. See Show Tasks in Calendar.
  • Show Birthdays Calendar — Shows birthdays from the iOS Contacts app. Off by default. See Birthdays and Anniversaries.
    • When death date is detected — Continue Showing Birthdays (the default), Stop Showing Birthdays from the year of death, or Show Death Anniversaries. Appears when Show Birthdays Calendar is on.
  • Show Anniversaries Calendar — Shows anniversaries from the iOS Contacts app. Off by default.
  • Show Weather — Displays weather forecasts at your location for the next 7 days. On by default. Requires permission to use your location; if BusyCal cannot get your location or the latest forecast, it says so beneath the setting. See Weather.
    • Use Celsius — Show temperatures in Celsius rather than Fahrenheit. Appears when Show Weather is on, and starts out matching your region.
  • Show Moons — Displays moon phase graphics. On by default.
  • Show Declined Events — Displays events you were invited to but declined.
  • Show Hidden Events — Shows events you have manually hidden using the context menu (long-tap on event).
  • Combine Identical Events — Merges duplicate events that appear on two or more calendars.
  • Show Week Numbers — Displays week numbers in Day, Week, and Month views.
  • Show Alternate Calendar — Show a second calendar system alongside the dates. Turn it on, then choose Chinese (the default), Hebrew, Islamic, Japanese, Persian, Day of Year or World Season Calendar.

Show Tasks in Calendar​

  • Dated Tasks — Show dated tasks in the calendar on their due dates. On by default.
    • Include All-Day Tasks — Include all-day tasks among the dated tasks shown. Turn it off and only the dated tasks that have a due time appear. On by default, and appears when Dated Tasks is on.
  • Carry Forward Uncompleted — Carry forward past-due tasks and display them on the current date. On by default.
  • Completed Tasks — Show completed tasks in the calendar. On by default.
  • Completed Undated Tasks — Show completed tasks that never had a date. On by default.
  • Completed Tasks in Calendar — Place completed tasks On Due Date (the default) or On Completed Date. When showing by completion date, Day and Week views show these in the all-day section.
  • Task Duration in Day & Week — How much vertical space a task occupies in Day and Week views: 15 minutes, 30 minutes (the default), 45 minutes or 1 hour.

View Preferences​

Controls how calendars and events appear on your screen.

Appearance​

  • Appearance — Choose Automatic (the default, following the system), Always Dark, or Always Light.
  • Event Text Style — Choose Plain (default text color), Calendar/Tag Color (the default — text colored by calendar or tag), or Calendar Color Only (text colored by calendar, ignoring tags). See Event Text Style.
    • Increase text contrast — Boosts saturation of colored event text for readability in Light mode. On by default, and appears when Event Text Style is not Plain.
  • Text Size — Set the text size for List View Text, Day/Week View Text, Month View Text and Tasks View Text separately. Each offers Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small and Extra Small. Most start at Medium; Month View Text starts at Small on iPhone and Medium on iPad.
  • Shade Weekends — Shades weekends gray on your calendar. On by default.
  • Dim Past Events — Dims events that have already occurred. On by default.
  • Dim Pending Invites — Displays meeting invites you haven't responded to in gray. On by default.

Calendar Configuration​

  • Working Days — Set your day and week:
    • Day starts at — Sunrise (the default) or any hour from Midnight to Noon.
    • Day ends at — Sunset (the default) or any hour from Noon to Midnight.
    • Work Week — Tap the days you work. Days outside the work week are shaded. This starts out matching your region, and at least one day must stay selected.
  • Start Week On — The first day displayed in the leftmost column of the Week/Month view. Monday by default.
  • Date alignment — Align date numbers to the Right (the default) or Left in calendar cells.

Event Details​

Choose which fields appear in the Event Details view for events and tasks.

  • Show Time To Event — Displays a countdown to the event start time.
  • Show Location — Text field for entering location information.
  • Show Location URL — URL field for entering location URLs.
  • Show Time Shortcuts — Shows time shortcut buttons when creating or editing events.
  • Show Favorite Time Zones — Adds shortcuts to the time-zone picker. This does not display the Start Time Zone field; enable that field separately.
  • Show Start Time Zone — Time zone menu for the event start time. See Time Zones.
    • Show End Time Zone — Time zone menu for the event end time (appears when Start Time Zone is enabled).
  • Show Travel Time — Menu for viewing or specifying travel time. See Maps & Travel Time.
  • Show Task Duration — Displays a duration field for tasks.
  • Show First Occurrence — Displays the first occurrence date and sequence number of a repeating event.
  • Show Attendees — Field for adding attendees. See Meetings and Invitations.
  • Show Contacts — Field for linking to contacts.
  • Show Tags — Field for entering tags. See Tags.
  • Show Labels — Displays event labels.
  • Show Color — Displays an event color picker.
  • Show URL — URL field for inserting links.
  • Show Private — Toggle to mark the event as Private. When sharing a calendar through Exchange, Google, or some CalDAV servers, private events appear to others as "Private Event." Only timed events can be made private. Not supported by iCloud.
  • Show Busy — Toggle to mark the event as busy or free.
  • Show Created Time — The date and time the event was created.
  • Show Edited Time — The date and time the event was last modified.
  • Show Map — For events with structured locations, shows a map at the bottom of the details view.
  • Video Calls — Turn detection on or off for each service. All are on by default:
    • Zoom — Requires a Zoom account in BusyCal.
    • Google Meet — Requires a Google Calendar account.
    • WebEx — Requires a Webex account.
    • GoTo — Requires a GoTo Meeting account.
    • MS Teams — Available only for events on primary Office 365 calendars.

Week View​

  • Time in Week View — Show None, Duration (for example "1h"), or Start-End Time (the default).
  • Days in Week View — Set # of Days (Portrait) and # of Days (Landscape) separately. iPhone offers 2 to 7 days, iPad 2 to 14. Portrait starts at 3 days and landscape at 5.
  • Align Week View to Today — Week view starts from today. On by default. Turn it off to follow the Start Week On setting instead, as long as today is visible.
  • Notes in Day & Week View — Show event notes in Day and Week views. On by default.

Month View​

  • Time alignment in Month View — Align event times to the Right (the default) or Left.
  • Time in Month View — Show None, Start Time (the default), or Start-End Time. On iPhone, times appear in landscape only.
    • Time In Month View (Portrait) — Also show times in portrait. iPhone only, and appears when Time in Month View is not None.
  • Weeks in Month View — Set # of Weeks (Portrait) and # of Weeks (Landscape) separately, from 2 to 8 weeks. Portrait starts at 4 weeks and landscape at 3.
  • Align Month View to Current Week — Month view starts from the current week. On by default. Turn it off to start from the first day of the month.
  • Notes in Month View — Show event notes in Month view. On by default.

List View​

  • Empty Days in List View — Show days with no events in List view. On by default.
  • Notes in List View — Show event notes beneath event titles in List view. On by default.

Task Display​

  • Dim Completed Tasks — Dims completed tasks in the calendar and task list. On by default.
  • Friendly Dates in Task List — Shows relative dates (for example "Tomorrow") for dated tasks. On by default. Turn it off to show absolute dates.

Multi-Day Events​

  • Combined Multi-Day Events — Combines a multi-day event into a single block in Day and Week views. On by default.
    • Multi-Day Event Duration — How long an event must run before it is combined, from 30 minutes to 22 hours. 21 hours by default. Appears when Combined Multi-Day Events is on.

App Icon & Alerts​

Controls BusyCal's app icon badge and alarm behavior.

  • Meeting Invitations — Show meeting invitations in the Notification Center. On by default.
  • Badge Icon — Choose what the number on BusyCal's app icon counts: None, Today's Remaining Items (the default), Today's Tasks, Today's Tasks + Overdue, All Overdue Tasks, Inbox Notifications, Current Date, Current Week, or Current Day of Year.
  • Event Alarms, Task Alarms and Journal Alarms — Each opens its own screen with the same three settings, so events, tasks and journal entries can sound different:
    • Show Alarms — Whether this kind of item raises alarms at all. On by default.
    • Vibrate Only — Vibrate instead of playing a sound. Off by default.
    • Alarm Sound — System Default (the default), Chime, Attention, Question, Deep Space, Welcome, Doors, Woodlands, Tinkle, Victory, Finish, Bicycle, Don't Forget, Knock Knock, Level Up, Marimba, Surprise, It's Time, Reminder, Reward, or Soft Chime.

New Event Defaults​

Default settings for new events, tasks, and journals.

  • Add Button Creates — Choose what a tap on the Add button makes: Automatic (the default), Event or Task. Automatic usually creates a task while the Tasks tab is open and an event everywhere else. This setting applies to a tap only; what a long press offers is set by Long-Press Menu Options under Accessibility.
  • Create with Natural Language — Replaces the Title field with a freeform text field where you can type event details in natural language (e.g. "Lunch with Joe next Tuesday" or "Dentist at 2:00 Monday alarm 15m"). BusyCal interprets your entry and creates the event.
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When Create with Natural Language is enabled, compact entry hides individual time-zone menus. You can type a zone inline, tap Show Details, or use the full event editor.

  • New Event Defaults:

    • Default Calendar — The calendar new events go to, listed by account. A Calendar Set's own override takes precedence over this while that set is active.
    • All Day — Create new events as all-day events. Off by default.
    • Default Start Time — The start time for new timed events. 9:00 AM by default, and hidden while All Day is on.
    • Default Duration (minutes) — The length of new timed events. 60 by default.

  • New Task Defaults:

    • Default Calendar — The calendar new tasks go to.
    • Default Priority — None (the default), Low, Medium or High.
    • Default Due Date — Undated (the default), Same Day, Next Day, In 2 Days through In 6 Days, or In 1 Week.
    • Default Due Time — Give new dated tasks a due time as well as a date, then pick the time. 9:00 AM by default. Appears once Default Due Date is not Undated.

  • New Journal Defaults:

    • Default Calendar — The calendar new journal entries go to.

  • Alarm Defaults — Set up to three default alarms for each kind of item. Tap a kind to open its screen, where Alarm 1, Alarm 2 and Alarm 3 can each be switched on and set individually.

    • For Timed Events — 5 minutes before by default.
    • For All Day Events — On the same day at 9:00 AM by default.
    • For Timed Tasks — At start by default.
    • For Dated Tasks — None by default.
    • For Birthdays & Anniversaries — None by default.
    • Apply when accepting invites — Add your default alarms to meeting invitations you accept. On by default.

    Each alarm offers Vibrate Only and a list of timings. For timed events and tasks these run from At start through 5 minutes before up to 1 week before; for all-day events, dated tasks and birthdays they are On same day, 1 day before, 2 days before and 1 week before, each at a time you set. Choose Custom to build any other timing from a number, a unit (minutes, hours, days, weeks — or days, weeks, months for all-day items) and before or after. Tap Done to keep an alarm; going back discards it.

  • Time Shortcuts — The four times offered as suggestions when you create a timed event or task. 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM by default; tap any of them to change it.

  • Use Floating Time for New Events — New events keep the same local time wherever you are, so a 1 PM event is at 1 PM in every time zone. Off by default.

  • Use Floating Time for New Tasks — The same for new tasks. Off by default.

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Some services do not support floating time. On those accounts, events fall back to your current time zone.

Time Zone​

Time zone settings for your calendar.

  • Time Zone Override — Show your calendar in a specific time zone instead of the device's own. Turn on Time Zone Override, then choose the Time Zone. Turning the override off returns you to the device time zone. See Time Zones.
  • Show Second Time Zone — Adds a second time ruler beside the first in Day and Week views. Off by default.
    • Second Time Zone — Which zone that ruler shows. Appears when Show Second Time Zone is on.
    • Show Third Time Zone — Adds a third ruler. Appears when Show Second Time Zone is on.
    • Third Time Zone — Which zone the third ruler shows. Turning a ruler off keeps its zone for next time.
  • Favorite Time Zones — Time zones you use often. They stay visible in every time zone picker and can show conversions in Event Details when Show Favorite Time Zones is on. Tap Add Time Zone and search for a city to add one, tap a saved zone to give it your own name, and use Edit or swipe left to remove one.

When choosing any time zone, search for a city by name. Zones you have used recently appear under Recent, and UTC is always available under Special.

Accessibility​

Settings to customize interaction and display for ease of use.

  • Always Highlight Today — Always show a highlight ring around today's date. Off by default.

  • Long-Press Menu Options — Choose which items you can create by long-pressing the Add button or a date or time in the calendar: New Event and New Task are offered by default, and New Journal can be added. At least one must stay selected, and if you leave only one, a long-press creates that item straight away.

  • Context Menus in Day / Week View — Long-press an event to open its context menu in Day and Week views. Off by default.

  • Show Join Button in Calendar — Show the meeting join button on events in Day and Week views. On by default.

  • Month Name on Every Day — Display the month name on every day cell, not just the first day of each month. Off by default.

  • Show Month Names when Scrolling — Display a floating month name while scrolling through months. On by default.

  • Separators in Month View — Show grid separators between days in Month view. On by default.

Advanced​

Additional settings for customizing BusyCal's behavior.

  • Manage Tag History — Your list of tags. See Manage Tag History.

  • Open Locations in — Which map app opens when you tap an event location: Apple Maps (the default), Google Maps, Waze, City Mapper or TomTom Go. Apps you don't have installed are not listed.

  • Open Links in — Which browser opens when you tap a URL: Safari (the default), Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Dolphin, Opera or Edge. Apps you don't have installed are not listed.

  • Open Phone Calls in — Which app places a call when you tap a phone number: System Default (the default), FaceTime Audio, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Google Voice or Zoom. Apps you don't have installed are not listed.

  • Log Level for Support — How much detail diagnostic logs capture: Warn, Info, Detailed (the default), Verbose or Low Level. Change this only if BusyMac support asks you to.

  • Detect HTML text in Notes — Converts HTML-formatted text in event notes to plain text for display. On by default.

  • Confirm Event Deletion — Ask for confirmation before deleting an event from a calendar view. On by default. Deleting from within Event Details always asks.

  • Travel time in blocking events — Controls whether time-blocking events extend their start time by the original event's travel duration so colleagues see you as unavailable during your commute:

    • Match original event times — Blocking events use the same start and end as the original. Travel time is not reflected on the destination calendar.
    • Include travel time in all (Default) — Every blocking event starts earlier by the original event's travel duration so travel time also appears as busy.
    • Include travel time in "Show as Busy" only — Only blockers created with the Show as Busy option start earlier. Blockers that include full details keep the original event's times.

    This setting is shared with BusyCal for Mac via iCloud.

  • Sync Accounts — Sync new accounts across your devices using iCloud. On by default. Passwords are not synced, and iCloud Drive must be turned on in the Settings app.

  • Sync Calendar Sets — Sync your calendar sets across your iOS devices. On by default. iCloud Drive must be turned on.

Manage Tag History​

The Tag History holds tags you have used before and tags found on events during sync. If you have none yet, the screen says No Tags.

  • New Tag — Create a tag. Give it a name, and turn on Use Color to pick a color for it.
  • Your tags — Tap a tag to rename it or change its color. Swipe left to remove it from the history; this does not remove the tag from events that already carry it.
  • Sync Tag List — Sync your tag list across your devices over iCloud. On by default. Requires iCloud Drive.

See Tags for how tags work.

Export as CSV​

Export one or more calendars to a CSV spreadsheet file that you can save to Files, AirDrop, email, or open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.

Calendars are listed by account. Tap the ones you want, or use Select All and Deselect All, then tap Export and choose where to send the file. Export stays dimmed until you have selected at least one calendar. Every event on the chosen calendars is exported — there are no date range or field options. See Export Calendars as CSV for what the file contains.

Security​

Biometric lock settings. This section appears only on devices with Face ID or Touch ID, and changing these settings requires authentication.

  • Require Face ID / Touch ID — How soon authentication is required after you leave BusyCal: Immediately (the default), or after 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes.
  • Protected Calendar Sets — Which calendar sets are locked. Turn on All to require authentication when the app opens, with no events shown until it succeeds, or leave All off and choose individual sets below. None are protected by default. Events from a locked set stay hidden while you view All Calendars until you unlock that set.
  • Allow widgets access — Let widgets and the Watch app show events from protected calendar sets without authentication. On by default.

Help​

  • Email Diagnostic Logs — Send diagnostic logs to BusyMac support. You can send your email With Logs or Without Logs, or choose Share Logs to send them another way. Logs may contain your private calendar data; BusyMac support keeps them confidential and uses them only for troubleshooting.
  • Subscribe to Mailing List — Subscribe to the BusyMac mailing list for news and offers. Your email is filled in from one of your accounts where possible, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
  • User Guide — Open this online help.
  • Write a Review — Open the App Store to write a review. Not shown for Setapp subscribers.

About​

Shows the BusyCal version and build number, links to www.BusyMac.com and @BusyMac, the Apple Weather attribution, and the copyright notice. On iPhone, About is the last row of the Help section rather than a section of its own.

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