Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On this episode let's look at adding recurring calendar events on your Mac or on the iOS.
Let's say you want to create an event that happens say the second Tuesday of every month.
So what you do is in your current month, or perhaps in the next month, you would look
for the second Tuesday, right there, and we would then click in there to create an event.
So let's create Test Event.
Make sure it is set to the right calendar that you want and then in order to make it
a recurring event click on where it says Add Alert, Repeat, or Travel Time.
We are going to go to the Repeat section here.
You get some default things like Every Day, Every Week, Every Month, Every Year.
But you also have Custom.
This is where we will be able to set a recurring event.
Now here we've got some defaults as well.
So we can set Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.
Or we can get more detail here below.
So we can say, for instance, that we wanted to do Monthly.
Okay.
Then it expands and we can say every month or every two months however often.
Let's stick with every month.
We have it set here for the 12th.
We can also then switch here to something else.
So this would just set it for basically the 12th of every month.
If we go to On The then we can say something like the second and second day, or weekday,
or weekend day.
But we can also say second Tuesday.
So you can see just with all these controls you have so many different options to be able
to create the recurring event that you want.
Actually if you go to a different time, like say weekly in Frequency, you can say every
one or every two weeks or every three weeks on a certain day of the week.
If we do Annually then we can go and actually have this appear on that day in certain months.
So you've got lots of different options here for creating exactly the recurring event that
you want.
So when I do this it says now every month on the second Tuesday.
I can also set an end repeat and set it to be say stop at the end of this year or next
year.
Now if I were to go and look at the calendar I've got the second Tuesday of January.
If I go to February I can see there it is on the second Tuesday in February, even though
that is the 9th and not the 12th.
And I continue to see the second Tuesday in March, etc., all the way forward.
If I were to change this event, maybe just change the title, I'm actually asked if I
only want to change it for this particular one.
So maybe add a special note or something to this particular one.
Or I can say All Future Events in here.
So you can see the exclamation point is there and it is in the next month.
If I go back you can see it is not in the previous months because it only changed the
future event.
So if you want to change all the events going forward you want to do your most recent one,
or even one that was in the past, and it will change all of those moving forward in time.
Now until iOS 9 you couldn't actually do any of this in iOS.
So you were out of luck if you only had an iPhone or iPad and didn't have a Mac to be
able to set these.
But now you can.
On the Calendar app on iOS 9 you can go in and you can hit repeat and do the same kind
of thing here.
You've got the defaults.
You've got Custom.
You can set the Custom to say frequency monthly like that.
Then once you do that you can say on the second Tuesday of every month.
Now that is going to be set for that.
Now you can see the Repeat there is Custom and it will be set for the second Tuesday
of every month.