IOS 7 calendar lousy design

Now iOS 7 is out and I put it on my phone. One important app for me is the calendar to manage by daily appointments etc.. What really annoys me is that in the main overview of a month no indication is telling which days have an appointment. No different color, no marking, nothing. That's really bad.
In example if somebody is asking me if I'm available for a service in a certain week I was able to identify in the old iOS calendar that something was planned in that week in viewing the entire month. That's no more with iOS7 and it is a pitty. I will have to look now for a 3rd party app to get back a similar function.
I don't want to load apps all the time for basic functions which have been existing previously.

I never realized that greey dot. I tell you why: white and grey is not the best combination.
Anyhow, good to know. So I would have the request to Apple Dev-Team to change this dot to a coloured dot depending on the event. In example, a private appointment is blue in my case. A business appointment could be orange or red. Now when having to take a quick look on my calender to check if I'm scheduled for a certain, let me call it appointment group, it was easy in the old calendar. Especially for privat appointments it was nice, because with all the business appointments it was easy to forget privat stuff like birthdays, Dr appointment etc. Of course I could have set an auto reminder, but 15 minutes later I would need a reminder again. Might be me forgetting all so those appointments again, but would be a reason to think about such an improvement.
Then next is when tapping on the day with the grey dot and change to the weekly view there is no indicator for the other days of the week.

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