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How To Add The Current Date To Notification Center
Mar 11, 2025
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can add the current date to
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notification center now as nice as
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notification center is and iOS 5 on both
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the iPad and the iPhone it's not
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incredibly useful as far as additional
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functionality goes so beyond just seeing
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the basic notifications you can't do
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much more with it besides showing the
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current weather and the stocks so what
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I'm going to show you how to do here is
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to actually add a section with a current
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date to notification center so I
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originally saw somebody over on Mac OS
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10 hints post this little script that
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lets you do what I'm about to show you
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do and it's actually pretty neat so
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basically what this does is create an
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iCloud calendar and with it you can
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select a range of dates and it'll repeat
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a event for each day and therefore show
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the current date continuously every day
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a notification center so if we go to the
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script page here I'll of course have the
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download link for the script in the
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article and if you scroll down just a
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little ways here you can download the
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script and it's just a simple zip file
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and from here I can just open it up
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right in my downloads folder and hit
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open so when I open this up it's going
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to say this application will create an
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all day event for the ranging Supply so
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you can see the current date in the
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notification center in
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iOS and right now only the current year
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is supported so you you have to run this
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just once a year which isn't a huge
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issue and what you have to do before you
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hit okay here is specify the name of the
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iCloud Calendar you want to use so you
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have to create this before you continue
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so what we're going to do is we're going
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to go to the applications folder and
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open up IAL and from here we're going to
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go up to the file menu and select new
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calendar and then you're going to want
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to hit iCloud and then here you can name
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this calendar we're going to call this
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calendar today
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is just like that and now if we go over
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here we can see I named it today is and
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then I can hit okay and what I can do
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now is enter the starting date and of
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course this is today so I can hit okay
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and I can do the end date and of course
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since it is December this is only going
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to run a few more days before I'll have
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to do it again but that's just
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unfortunate because it is the end of the
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year pretty much so I can hit okay again
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and it's going to create the events and
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it says it might take a while but there
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there you go and there it is and I can
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hit okay and it's all done with so once
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you finished it's going to redirect you
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to this donation page where you can
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donate if you so choose so if we go back
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into iel we can see that for the rest of
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the month at least cuz it is December
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it's created today is events for
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everything and while it may look like
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it's a bother to have all these on I of
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course you can just go up to the
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calendars button and unselect today is
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and you won't see any of those you don't
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have to worry about it and it just kind
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of sits there very unobtrusively so now
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what I'm going to do do is I'm going to
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go onto my device and I just want to
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tweak a couple things to make this the
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best it can be so if I go into settings
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from here and then notifications I'm
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going to want to scroll down until I hit
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the calendar and in here you're going to
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want to make sure it says show and then
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just one item because if you show more
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than that it's going to show you know
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upcoming events for the next days and
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could get a little annoying and you
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might also want to turn off badge app
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icon if you don't really want that there
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either now you can see if I'm in any
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application such as Safari and I just
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want to know the current date I can just
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pull on notification center and right
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there you can see that it is Tuesday
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December 13th 2011 and there you have it
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so there you go there's how you can add
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the current date to notification center
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on the iPhone and iPad and just a side
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note it does work best on the iPad
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because it can tend to get cut off
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sometimes on the smaller screen on the
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iPhone unless you're using it in
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landscape so that is just one small
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downfall but if you're in Safari or
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something and you just want to know the
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date you're most likely in landscape
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mode anyways so as always if you have
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anything that you'd like to see me do a
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howto on make sure to send me an email I
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hope you found this video useful and
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thank you for
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watching