Change a calendar’s name or colour

Change a calendar’s name or colour

You can edit a calendar’s name and colour at any time. (Though you can’t rename the Birthdays calendar.)

When you change a calendar’s colour, all events associated with that calendar change to the new colour.

Note: Calendar name and colour changes you make appear on every device that has the iCloud Calendar feature turned on. You can’t change the name or colour of the Birthdays calendar.

Change a calendar’s name or colour

  1. Click Edit below the sidebar.

  2. Do either of the following:

    • To change a calendar’s name, double-click the calendar’s name and type a new name.

    • To change a calendar’s colour, click the Colour button next to the calendar’s name, then choose a colour.

      The calendar colour button in the calendar list

The name and colour changes you make are visible immediately in all the places you view this calendar (for example, in iCloud Calendar; in Calendar (or iCal in OS X v10.7.5) on your Mac; or in the Calendar app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch).

Colour changes you make to an iCloud calendar aren’t visible in Microsoft Outlook.