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Settings

Most of KashCal works without touching a single setting. But when you want to change how the week starts, how times show up, or how far back sync reaches, it's all in one place.

Tap the avatar in the top-right corner to open the account hub, then tap Accounts & Settings. The screen is grouped into sections, described below in the order they appear.

How the Settings screen works​

Three things make the screen quick to read:

  • Rows show their current value on the right. You can read your whole setup at a glance instead of opening each row to check what it's set to. Rows that are only on or off, like Show week numbers, use a switch instead.
  • Tapping a row opens a picker from the bottom of the screen. Choices slide up as a sheet rather than unfolding as a menu on top of everything, so you always see the full list of options.
  • Search covers rows and section headers. Type in Search settings… at the top. Matching rows are filtered down and the matched text is highlighted, in both the row's label and its value. Matching a section header surfaces that whole group, so "appearance" finds every setting under that header even when no individual row contains the word.

With a screen reader, each picker is announced as a group of radio buttons, so you hear which option is currently selected before you change it.

Calendars & accounts​

  • Calendar accounts: connect iCloud or a CalDAV server, and manage the accounts you already have. See Sync & Accounts.
  • Birthdays & anniversaries: show birthdays and anniversaries from your contacts. See Birthdays.
  • Calendar feeds (ICS): subscribe to holiday, sports, or school calendars by URL. See Calendar feeds.
  • Device calendars: show calendars from other apps already on your phone. The row shows how many are enabled. See Device calendars.

Appearance​

Theme, accent color, and app icon moved

Personalization now lives in the account hub, not here. Tap the avatar in the top-right of any calendar view and look under Make it yours for Theme, Accent color, and App icon. See The account hub.

  • Time format: 12-hour, 24-hour, or follow the system. Each choice in the picker shows a sample time in that format, so you can see the difference before committing to it.
  • Start week on: whether your week begins on the system default, Monday, Sunday, or Saturday. This changes every calendar grid at once.
  • Widget event limit: how many events each day shows in the home-screen widgets. Choose 3, 5, 8, 10, or 15. The default is 5 per day.
  • Detailed widget rows: show each event on two lines in the list widgets, the title above its full start-to-end time, instead of one compact line. Off by default. See Widgets.
  • Show week numbers: show the ISO week number alongside the month grid.
  • Show declined events: keep events you've declined visible, shown dimmed with a strikethrough, instead of hiding them.
  • Event emojis: when on, KashCal shows an emoji next to an event based on its title (a cake for a birthday, a plane for a flight). On by default; turn it off for a plainer list.
Material You colors

With Accent color set to Automatic, KashCal picks up your Material You wallpaper colors on Android 12 and newer. Pick any other accent and KashCal uses that color instead, on both the app and your widgets.

Event preferences​

  • Default calendar: where new events are created unless you pick another. Tap to choose from any of your calendars, grouped by account. This row shows up once you have at least one calendar.
  • Default event length: how long a new event runs before you change it. The default is 30 minutes.
  • Timed event alert: the reminder added automatically to a new event that has a start time. The default is 15 minutes before.
  • All-day event alert: the reminder added automatically to a new all-day event. All-day alerts fire at 9 AM (09:00), so this setting picks the day rather than the time: the day of the event, the day before, and so on. The sheet says so at the top.
  • Smart event add: turns on the natural-language capture box, so you can type "Coffee with Kash tomorrow 3pm" and get a real event. Off by default. See Smart event add.
  • Suggest event titles: offers title suggestions as you type in the event form, ranked by how often and how recently you've used them. On by default.
Setting a custom alert

Both rows offer a list of presets plus Custom, which swaps in a scrolling duration wheel with a Back control to return to the presets.

The wheel commits only when you tap Done, so scrolling it doesn't close the sheet or change anything on its own. If you open Custom and tap Done without scrolling, your existing alert is kept exactly as it was, including an unusual value synced from another app that doesn't line up with the wheel's steps.

Sync​

Notification permission moved

Granting notification permission (so your reminders can alert you) now lives on the App permissions screen, reached from the account hub, alongside every other permission KashCal uses. See Reminders and The account hub.

  • Sync frequency: how often KashCal syncs in the background. Choose 15 or 30 minutes, 1, 6, 12, or 24 hours, or Manual only to sync only when you ask. The default is every hour, and 15 minutes is the shortest interval Android allows for background work.
  • Sync lookback: how far into the past to download events, from 3 months up to All events. The default is one year. Widen it if you need older history on the device.

See How sync works for what happens during a sync.

Backup & restore​

  • Export Local calendar: save your local events to an .ics file.
  • Back up settings: write your preferences out to a file.
  • Import events from file: bring in events from an .ics file.
  • Restore settings: read your preferences back from a backup file.

See Backup & restore for what's included and what isn't.

Privacy & Security​

App lock moved

The App lock toggle (require your fingerprint, face, or screen lock to open KashCal) now lives in the account hub, under Privacy & Security, rather than in Settings. See App lock.