Shift Worker 1.7 is out now, and it brings the feature you’ve been asking for.
Calendar sync is here! Switch it on and your shifts flow straight into your iPhone calendar, sitting neatly beside everything else you’ve got on. Point it at a shared family calendar and everyone at home can see your roster at a glance. Dinners, school pickups and weekends just got a whole lot easier to plan.
And if it’s not for you, that’s completely fine. Calendar sync is an optional extra, and the Shift Worker you’ve used for years functions exactly the same way. Nothing has been taken away or moved behind a paywall.
Want to try it? The first 7 days are free. After that, calendar sync comes with Shift Worker Premium, available monthly or yearly at a reduced cost.
Added
- Sync your shifts straight to your calendar. Turn on Calendar Sync (from Settings, or the new shortcut icon on the main screen) and every shift automatically appears in your device’s Calendar app, staying up to date on its own whenever a shift changes. No manual re-syncing needed!
- Choose exactly which calendar your shifts go to, including a shared or family calendar if you’d rather everyone see your schedule there.
- Pick when you want to be reminded – no alert, right at the time of the shift, or anywhere from 5 minutes up to a full week beforehand.
- Calendar Sync is a subscription (monthly or yearly) option.
Improved
- If you sync to a calendar shared with others, a note now explains they’ll see your shift updates too.
- Re-syncing no longer rewrites events that haven’t actually changed, so anyone else on a shared calendar isn’t pinged with “this event changed” notifications for nothing.
- Only your current and future shifts get synced. Past history isn’t back-filled, but a shift that was already synced stays on your calendar even once its date has passed, instead of quietly disappearing.
- Turning sync off now also cleanly removes the shifts it had added to your calendar.
Fixed
- Reminders sometimes not showing up at all on newly-added synced shifts.
- Reminders occasionally only “sticking” on the last shift when several were synced at once.
- Swipe-to-delete not working in Shift Manager.
- Bulk Actions rows not responding to taps.
- Importing a .swc/.swb backup file skipping the calendar picker.
- Sync occasionally reading from the wrong calendar rather than the one you had actively selected.
- Bottom toolbar buttons (the calendar and settings icons especially) occasionally not responding to the very first tap.