Yesterday, a new update for the popular Fantastical calendar app in the App Store was released and in it was a feature that many iPhone 14 Pro users will like.
With Version 3.7.7 of the app, it adds the ability for Live Actives for iPhone 14 Pro users.
What the Live Activities feature is in iOS 16 is that it gives users the ability to see live updates from apps right from their Lock Screen. An example of this is through apps like the Uber app where after you make a purchase for a drive, it shows you the status of the vehicle picking you up on your Lock Screen.
Another one is CARROT Weather which shows you when it is precipitating outside, how much is expected to fall, and when said precipitation is expected to end.
Here are the release notes from the developers of the app, Flexibits:
“Live Activities and Dynamic Island for upcoming events on iPhone 14 Pro! Start a live activity for events that are coming up in the next hour from an event’s notification or details. You can also automatically start live activities for upcoming events in Fantastical’s Alerts & Notifications settings.”
Additionally, here are the other updates that have been packed into this app.
- Webex meetings can now be scheduled in the Personal Room
- Added support for personal Microsoft Teams conferences
- Long file names of attachments are now fully visible
- Improved detection and recovery when encountering a corrupt database
- Improved handling of Todoist sync errors
- Fixed an issue where dragged events in the Day View would sometimes have wrong start time if moved between davs
- Fixed an issue were events deleted on a Google calendar could reappear
- Fixed a crash when encountering an invalid time zone on Exchange
- Fixed an issue where reinstalling the Apple Watch app would get stuck until the app was relaunched
- Fixed an error that could appear when tapping on a notification for a recently scheduled Openings appointment
- Fixed an issue where notifications for Openings appointments would disappear too soon if a conference call was automatically added
- Fixed an issue where the event list would be empty after the device was rotated to landscape
- Fixed undesired event highlight during day/week view scrolling
- Fixed a crash that would happen when moving an event using drag and drop
- Fixed an issue where syncing to Todoist could generate more requests than necessary
- Fixed an issue that caused the keyboard to block content for some users when editing notes
- Fixed an issue where Exchange accounts could hang syncing when encountering unexpected server issues
- Various fixes and improvements
Fantastical is available in App Store on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.
