One UI 4.1 is the latest custom software system offered by Samsung. It has many new features and improved once. However, not only the features and functionalities, but the company has also enhanced its applications, such as the Samsung Calendar with lots of new functionalities.

Samsung offers its own Calendar application to let you amazingly manage your monthly events. This advanced Samsung Calendar app can now see dates and times in messages and suggest them as events to Galaxy users.

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Besides the stock messaging apps, Smart Calendar also works with WhatsApp, Hangout, Facebook Messenger, Google Chat, Line, Signal, and KakaoTalk. Using this, you can easily schedule events directly from their beloved social media platform.

There are many notable features of this application. Here we are talking about the top 10 smart uses of the Samsung One UI 4.1 Calendar app.

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Smart uses of Samsung One UI 4.1 Calendar app

Weather forecast on the Calendar app

Samsung Calendar can show the weather forecast for each of the next seven days. It shows the icons precipitating cloudy or sunny days. You also get the temperature for today. This feature is not enabled by default, you have to enable it. To dot this:

• Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
• Tap on Settings.
• Scroll down and enable the toggle “Show weather forecast“.
  • If have to add the Samsung Weather to the Home Screen to view the weather forecast.
• Now just go back to month view.
• Expand it and you will see the weather forecast for the next 7 days.

Make your calendar look clean

When we open the Calendar app in the month view, we have all these events indicated in different colors on each date. These color codings include your reminders as well. If you don’t want these reminders to be showcased, you can remove them to make your calendar look cleaner.

To do this:

• Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
• Scroll down to see App events.
• Tap on it and then tap on Reminders to disable it.

Setting the week numbers on the left side of the Calendar month view

Yes, you can set the week numbers on the Calendar’s month view. It is very easy to do:

• Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
• Tap on Settings.
• Scroll down and enable the toggle “Show week numbers“.

Drawing or writing on the Calendar

• When you swipe and expand the Calendar in the month view, you see a Pencil icon.
• Take out your S Pen and you can write and draw on the month view page.
• You can even zoom in on the calendar and edit it using your S Pen.
• It will be saved and shown whenever you go through a particular month. To change the settings:
  • Go to the three-line menu.
  • Below the Month we have an option “Show handwriting“.
  • Just uncheck it and it will show you whatever you write or draw.

Setting a particular color for each event indicator while creating an event

Whenever to create an event, you can set a particular color for that event. To do this:

• Tap the Plus icon to create an event.
• On the top right, you see a color option.
• Just tap on it and select the color you want.
• Finally, click Save.

Change font size

If you are someone who prefers to see bigger font on the month view of your Calendar application, you can increase it or decrease it according to your preferences.

• Open the Menu.
• Go to the Settings.
• Tap on Event title font size.
• Select the font size you want.

Default Alert style

• Tap on the Menu.
• Go to Settings.
• Tap Alert style.
• You see three different options to choose from.
  • Light: Notification with a short sound.
  • Medium: Full-screen alert with a short sound. While using your phone, you’ll get a pop-up instead.
  • Strong: Full-screen alert with long sound. While using your phone, you’ll get a pop-up instead.

Create an event and share it with another contact

As the name mentioned, here you can create an event and share it with other contacts. You can add as many as 99 contacts. To do this:

• Go to the Menu >> Settings.
• Click Manage calendars (very first settings).
• Click on Create shared calendar.
• Select the contents you want to share.

Write with S Pen instead of typing

• Take out your S Pen.
• Tap on add event.
• Start writing with S Pen and it will automatically type for you.

Calendar Widget

One UI 4.1 Smart Widget lets you add multiple widgets on one single widget on the Home screen.

To set this up:

• Tap and hold the Home Screen,
• Tap on Widgets.
• Tap on the Smart widget.
• Scroll down and you will see the Smart widget 4 x 2.
• Select it and add it to the Home screen.
• Tap and hold the widget.
• You will have an all-new option to “Add widget to smart widget”.
• Tap on it, tap on the calendar and add the event widget to the same widget.