I’ve tried a few different calendar programs in the past but always end up back at Apple Calendar (the same goes for Reminders as well). But one of my pet annoyances is that the week view doesn’t quite work for me. But it turns out you can change the week view to display as many days as you want.
By default, the week view in Calendar shows seven days of scheduled events and activities. But a simple Terminal command lets you change that.
To change the number of days displayed in Apple Calendar week view follow these steps.
- Launch Terminal (you’ll find it in the Applications | Utilities folder or you can simply use Spotlight to find it).
- Copy and paste the following into terminal.
defaults write com.apple.iCal n\ days\ of\ week NN- Change the ‘NN’ to the number of days you want to see. For example, if you like a ten day view(as I do), the command would say:
defaults write com.apple.iCal n\ days\ of\ week 10The effect of this is instant. If you have Calendar open, the number of displayed days will change before your eyes.
You can revert back to the default seven day view by using the same command in Terminal but using 7 in place of NN.
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