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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Anonymous
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Why would Microsoft change the way this works without ANY communications or notification to the people they KNOW are using the feature?
Horrible customer experience.
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G
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I enjoyed the convenience of having the shared family calendar in all the platforms (computer, mobile and web). By taking this great convenience it is forcing me to look at other options. You should seriously reconsider adding this feature from the old calendar
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Enny
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Same her, works good for years on every Plattform. No it's only shown on the web or in outlook app.
Cannot use Data with TV, Alexa or other apps. Will move to google if it is not solved till end of the year. -
Anonymous
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Been using the family calendar for many years. Suddenly with no warning we are missing appointments because it's gone from half the places we use the calendar. Now we have to abandon it. This makes no sense.
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Anonymous
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Family calendar that you cannot see on the device native calendar! Just trying to move from gmail to outlook.com and this is one more issue to get over
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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.
