Comments on: Quick tip: Calendar color fix for iPhone and iPod touch

By: martin

martin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:06:15 +0000

July 2008 to Feb 2010 and this is still an issue. I just bought my first Iphone but have been Mac since my first 512. After confusion of passwords etc was finally sorted and Mobile me is up and running I ran into this little annoyance. Several times ‘Is Apple listening?’ This is such a no brainer that I can’t believe two years has gone by since this steam started. I guess Steve has been a bit ill so we should cut him some slack. I will work on the options suggested tom see if I can get the colours where I want them

By: alexis

alexis — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:36:39 +0000

I fixed this by syning using the CalDav option and the colors matched the google calendar colors.

By: Lavender

Lavender — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:35:18 +0000

None of these worked if syncing to Google calender thru Microsoft Exchange (at least for me). However I did find a way to make it work under these circumstances. If you want the base calender (the one your Google log in goes to) to come out red, then you won’t need a dummy account, so skip that part and just add your calenders in order (red, orange, blue, green, purple). I had to create a dummy Google calender account and add all my calenders to it to get my personal calender to come out a different color (I was aiming for purple). Then I synced to the dummy account’s blank calender first (you can’t NOT select the base calender so it has to be synced even empty) followed by my other calenders one at a time in the order of the color that I wanted them to fall in to.

The only thing that didn’t work perfect was when I added the second calender, it made that calendar red and the base dummy blank calender orange (since the second calender actually had events is my guess going by other people’s experiences with the automatic ordering). Turns out I liked it better that way so that was fine. All the other calenders added in order came out as the expected color. I got my personal calender as purple like I wanted, and all my friends/family’s calenders the color I wanted them!

By: Grauchy

Grauchy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:01:41 +0000

I did the sqlite3 color change but everytime I rebooted or synced my phone the colors would go back to the previous settings. So I created a bash script to assign the colors the way I want to see them. Then I created a plist file to run the bash script once on startup and every 4 hours after that. I’m not sure if there is a trigger for after a sync. That would be better than every 4 hours.

I called the script “CalendarColors.sh”:
#!/bin/bash
sqlite3 /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb “update Calendar set color_r=242, color_g=166, color_b=64 where title = ‘XXXXXXXX’;”

I have several lines of color commands one for each calendar.
Then make sure to set the script file as executable (Can’t remember the command right now)

Then I created a com.calendarcolors.plist and dropped it into
/Library/LaunchDaemons/

Label
com.calendarcolors

UserName
mobile

ProgramArguments

/var/mobile/Library/Calendar/CalendarColors.sh

RunAtLoad

StartInterval
14400

By: Omar

Omar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:12:05 +0000

Thank you Sandy (Comment #36), I had the same problem as TRosell and now it is fixed!

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:31:57 +0000

i just found where the iPhone stores the calendar color info – I was able to modify my 6 calendars & included colors like gray and pink!!!

Anyone with sqlitedb experience and iphone app developing want to contact me at john3.iphone ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com so we can create an app to do this???

By: beckkelly

beckkelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:27:28 +0000

This isn’t bad, but how do you change the name of the calendar? I have two “untitled” and I want a “personal”

By: Stan Bartel

Stan Bartel — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:32:57 +0000

My MAC book Pro iTunes does not see my iPhone 3Gs Microsoft Active Exchange calendar so I can’t change the color on the calendar as is described in this article. I really want to change it from red to orange.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Stan