The iPad and iPhone have a fantastic calendar app that is much more powerful than those you’d use on other devices. It becomes especially useful if you hook it up to other iOS devices and your computer using Apple’s free iCloud synchronisation service. However, the Calendar app isn’t reliant on being physically synched with a computer. You can add new events and amend existing ones on your iPad or iPhone. These are then sent over Wi-Fi using iCloud to your other iOS devices – no computer is required. The process for adding a new event from scratch is pretty straightforward but, when it comes to editing events, it’s worth noting one of the options in the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section of the Settings app. Scroll down to Calendars and you’ll find the Default Calendar option. Tap this to see a list of the calendars. Select one of them and it will be used as the default in the Calendars app when you create a new event. The setting can be overridden on a per-
