People, Places, and Appointments - iPad Mini - page 304

Syncing calendars with your desktop
The iPad can display the color-coding you assigned in Calendar (formerly iCal) in Mountain Lion or
Mavericks on a Mac. Cool, huh?
If you're a Mac user who uses Calendar, you can create multiple calendars and choose which ones to
sync with your iPad. What's more, you can choose to display any or all of your calendars. Calendar
entries you create on your iPad are synchronized with the calendar(s) you specified via iCloud (Maver-
icks) or the Info pane in iTunes (Mountain Lion or earlier). You can also sync calendars with Microsoft
Outlook on a Mac or versions of Microsoft Outlook (dating all the way back to Outlook 2003) on a PC.
The best solution we've found is to use iCloud to keep calendars updated and in sync across all your
iOS devices and computers. On the iPad, tap Settings⇒iCloud and make sure the Calendars option is
turned on (green).
One last thing: If you're a Mac user running OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, iCloud is the only way you
can sync data, as we mention way back in Chapter 3 .
Adding Calendar Entries
In Chapter 3 , you discover pretty much everything there is to know about syncing your iPad mini,
including syncing calendar entries from your Windows machine (using the likes of Microsoft
Outlook) or Mac (using Calendar, Microsoft Entourage, or Outlook). You can also add calendar
entries from iCloud.
In addition, any calendar entries in Facebook can automatically show up in the Calendar app. You
will have to visit Settings, enter your username and password, and then make sure the Calendar app
in the Facebook setting is turned on.
In plenty of situations, you enter appointments on the fly. Adding appointments directly to the iPad
is easy:
1. Tap the Calendar icon at the top of the screen, and launch the year, month, or day view.
2. Tap the + button in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Tapping it displays the Add Event screen, shown in Figure 12-6 .