Family calendar iPhone
I had previously manually created a “family calendar” that I shared and was therefore visible on outlook web, app and iOS calendar app. The latest update seems to have absorbed my manually created “family calendar” items into the new “my family” shared calendar which I do not recall being ask d permission for, however this new “my family” calendar is not visible in iOS calendar. Please resolve ASAP as not everyone uses the outlook app.
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David Grant
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Unfortunately, this was not a well thought out transition that negatively impacted our lives during a time we need no more disruption. When you turned off Healthvault, you gave months notice and continuous reminders and I would imagine few people used it in comparison to the Family Calendar. Why would you not give ample warning of this change?
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David Grant
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Unfortunately, this was not a well thought out transition that negatively impacted our lives during a time we need no more disruption. When you turned off Healthvault, you gave months notice and continuous reminders and I would imagine few people used it in comparison to the Family Calendar. Why would you not give ample warning of this change?
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David Gibson
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No clear strategy, and very arrogant behaviour from Microsoft.
If you want to remove a feature, give people warning.
The family calendar is useless without being available in apps like Outlook desktop and Windows 10 Calendar.
So either restore the access, or come clean and announce that you want to remove it.
But leaving it available on only some calendars is useless.
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Rene
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+1
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Anonymous
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If Microsoft's idea was to push people away from using their device's native calendar app and to their Outlook app, they are sadly mistaken. All this will do is encourage people to abandon Outlook as their primary mail/calendar/contacts service and switch to the native platform. In my case iCloud on iOS.
You had a feature that was useful and easy to use. It worked well. For some reason you felt the need to take it away. Please bring this feature back or its over to iCloud I go...
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Dan
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I love MS more than anybody I know, but this is a total disaster guys. I can't even export a new "family group calendar" to something that can be imported as a "real" calendar. My only solution is to manually re-enter my entire calendar from today on out. Guess what I am doing with the next 4 hours of my life. Thanks!
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Simon Hudson
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It's not an iPhone issue, it affects the majority of users, who are on other OSes.
It's for annoying and rituals broken or ability to manage our complex personal lives -
Bryan Boyle
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Whoever thought removing the family calendar the desktop app was a smart move should be fired, immediately this is beyond dumb, it borders on insane.
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Anonymous
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We need two paths the old and the new path. The user may decide which path to use.
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Kasper Dueholm
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As other also mentions - not even appearing in the Windows 10 Mail and Calendar app anymore....
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Mariusz Ostrowski
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Ugh, agree, very annoying. Voted.
Also, please the thread here:
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Chris McFarling
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Un-f'ing believable Microsoft. Rolling out a major change like this with no warning that completely breaks a perfectly working feature. The Family calendar just vanishes from iOS native Calendar app, Outlook desktop and Windows 10 Calendar app. How inept can you possibly be? Apparently extremely inept. Believe it or not, users actually rely on appointments showing up on all of these devices. MUST FIX ASAP!!
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Claire Wilkins
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What a disaster! Missed appointments. No notice. And no way to fix! Are you trying to push us all to Google? Is there some sort of internal sabotage going on or are you really that out of touch with your users. Sigh.
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Anonymous
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This goes for the Mail app on Windows 10 also!!!! Why would they remove the 'Your Family' calendar from the default app?
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Why does this go live without ANY warning announcement? The ability to access the family from different applications (iOS Calendar, Windows Calendar, Outlook.exe as well as Oulook App) was a great asset and broadly used including by our family members. Unfortunately iOS any 3rd-party application access including native Outlook.exe (production build) is gone!!!
We've been blind for a couple of days until we figured out workarounds for everyone to at least have read access by Outlook iOS app. We still miss having a common calendar overview for different calendar sources (personal, family, business) across platform's and devices...!
Please reactivate or provide an additional calendar interface for 3rd-party calendar apps. -
Josh
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Microsoft. What are you doing? This is ridiculous. Not only did you force us to use your horrible app, but you don’t even integrate it into your own app well. Why do I need to rsvp for a family event. That’s what the family event is for. And when I do now I have the even in my calendar in your stupid app twice. Once in family calendar and once on my personal calendar. In what way is that helpful? What is the point of the family calendar at that point... yikes... at this rate you will be third to apple AND Lenux.
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sk0gg1es
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Seems like a common thread that Microsoft just pushes out changes without asking for feedback, or considering the user experience. I use the Outlook Android app for managing my calendar but use the default Samsung calendar app for notifications since there's better integration with my gear watch. Additionally, the calendar is missing from the desktop Calendar client on Windows 10 which I got notifications from. This change needs to be reverted or some solution needs to be made. It makes no sense to do something like this, especially when it breaks Microsoft's own software as well.
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Jim
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We have missed the dentist and an important hospital appointment as the family calendar has gone without warning. It is where everything is kept. The calendar in the outlook app is awful. This needs fixing... why are we going backwards?!
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TG
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The ability to access the shared family calendar through the iOS calendar app is critical, you need to be able to view all calendars side by side when booking appointments. This is not possible if you have to move between iOS and the Outlook app to view different calendars. You need to be able to view the family calendar alongside work calendars. Urgently requesting this feature be reactivated.
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Anonymous
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This has effected thousands of household that depend on being able to share the family calendar in other applications. I say thousands...because for every one of the people finding there way here and other chat rooms, forems, threads there are thousands that dont know about these venues.
