One of our favorite apps is Fantastical from Flexibits. It’s one of the most popular calendaring apps on Mac and iPhone. It has a beautiful, intuitive interface and lets you use natural language to create events. If you enter “Meeting with Philip at 1:30 on Friday”, Fantastical creates an event with all those details filled in.
Fantastical 2 was released today, with lots of new features and interface refinements. And one of those new features is support for TextExpander touch. We thought it would be a good time to review what you need to do to make sure app work with TextExpander under iOS 7, using Fantastical as an example.
As we’ve written earlier, iOS 7 changed the way that TextExpander can share your snippets with other apps. It will now store your snippets in a reminder, which means that both TextExpander and the other app (in this case, Fantastical) must have access to Reminders.
When you first launch Fantastical, it will ask for permission to access Reminders. (If you skipped this on first launch, you can enable it in Settings.) In TextExpander, you need to enable the Share Snippets setting, at which point TextExpander will ask for access to Reminders.
If you go to your iOS settings, under Privacy > Reminders, you should see both TextExpander and Fantastical listed and enabled. If they are not enabled, you need to enable them. If one or both don’t appear on the list, check the settings of the apps themselves and make sure they are set as described above.
Here’s another tip for new TextExpander touch users: if you set Ignore Case in your TextExpander settings to “Off,” you’ll avoid issues with auto-capitalization.
If you have any questions, our friendly support geeks are ready to help–just send us an email!
