Q: Birthdays do not show up on iCloud.com/calendar. Anyone else?
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Oct 20, 2011 10:18 AMby peterfromlaguna niguel,Update on my previous post:
When I delete a contact from my Mac address book it is removed from my iCloud Contacts correctly, however the associated birthday is NOT removed from my iCloud Calendar. It is however completely removed from my Mac's iCal.
The same is true if I delete a contact from my iCloud Contacts.
If I modify the birthday (change its date within an existing contact (cloud or Mac address book) the modification is correctly reflected on both iCal and my clouds Calendar - the change does take a while to show up in the cloud, but usually within an hour or so.
So from my tests the problem boils down to - birthdays remain on the cloud calendar after its associated Contact has been deleted - the so called 24 hour delay has long past in my tests, so that is not a factor.
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Oct 20, 2011 10:48 AMby suffixabuse,Yeah, those are exactly the problems I'm having. Although, even when I modify the birthday in the iCloud or iPhone address book, iCloud still does not change -- even after hours of waiting.
Also, if I delete a contact and the their birthday completely, it still remains on the iCloud calendar. BUT, when I add that contact and birthday back into my address book, their birthday doesn't show up in the iCloud birthday calendar, even though you would think it would appear as a duplicate.
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Oct 20, 2011 1:05 PMby Planet Mongo,I'm having all kinds of issues with the birthday calendar. My iPhone contacts uploaded to iCloud and synced to my iPad2. However, only some (not all) of the birthdays from my iPhone synced to iCloud and the iPad. They do not show up in the contacts or the calendar.
I was working with an Apple Care person on Monday, but he hasn't called me back. Ugh, this is frustrating.
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Oct 20, 2011 2:53 PMby Planet Mongo,I've tried that. Both on my own and with Apple support. I did it again now just to make sure. The birthdays remain on my iPhone and don't go to iCloud or the iPad. If I add an event to my calendar from any source (including using Siri), all are updated. I've even deleted the calandar, and still not all the birthday's transfer when I sync. I even tried to add a birthday to a contact who didn't previously have one using the iPad and it doesn't make it to iCloud or the iPhone. Something is very wrong with how iCloud is syncing birthdays. The fact the Apple support person I was working with on Monday (for 2 hours!) hasn't called me back or responded to my emails indicates they have no idea how to resolve this issue.
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Oct 20, 2011 4:15 PMby k.alexander,I am continuing to work with Apple Tech Support. In the last 8 days I've had 1 telephone conversation and over 20 emails back and forth with the same person who is overseeing this reported problem for me. Last thing we did was two days ago, upload my entire address book to a new "test" iCloud account. Those birthdays have still not appeared. What also interesting is that a couple of the birthdays that I did get up into the iCloud's Birthday Calendar, have still not disappeared from the calendar. Basically, in my opinion, the calendar has not refershed in over 50 hours.
peterfromlaguna niguel: your tests regarding modifying birthdays is interesting. I've previously directed my Apple Tech Support contact to this forum, and I will do so again, pointing out your test conclusions.
The last email from Apple Tech Support person in part read as follows:
"I'm going to work with my engineers on this a little more and see what else we can come up with. ... I'll will be in contact as soon as I receive any updated information from my engineers."
Clearly, iCloud Birthday Calendar is not working right, at least for some. I'm glad that Apple is looking into this for me/us. As I've mentioned, please continue to report these problems to Apple. I believe if they get enough people reporting the problem, this will get figured out and fixed.
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Oct 20, 2011 8:09 PMby JTWilliams,I've got the same problem too. After reading the thread and trying some of the suggestions, it still isn't working.
That is, the Birthday "Subscription" isn't showing up to the left under Calendars, and obviously they aren't appearing anywhere else in my calendar too.
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Oct 21, 2011 7:03 AMby Chris12923,Same issue as everyone else.
1. Birthdays do not delete even if I delete the contact.
2. Some birthdays do not show up at all.
3. If I change the birthday it does not reflect in icloud calander.
I hope they get this fixed ASAP. Hard to believe no one spotted this in beta...
Thanks,
Chris
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Oct 21, 2011 7:10 AMby Romenoff,I have the the same problem.
I am set up on iPhone4 (ios5), iCal (5.0.1) on Lion (10.7.2) and iCloud and all seem to sync perfectly except for the iCloud Birthdays. On the iPhone4 and iCal they sync but not in iCloud.Not sure if this helps but I have set up my wife's iPhone4 and iCloud Calendar and she has Birthdays showing.
The only differences I can see is she is not set up on a mac with iCal. just thought the brainiacs may be able to deduce something from that.
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Oct 21, 2011 1:01 PMby Planet Mongo,I'm not using a Mac or iCal. Just the regular calendar in the iPhone, iPad, and iCloud. I was using the PC before the cloud, but didn't sync through iTunes, just MobileMe. Birthday's are still not synced and I still haven't heard back from my Apple support person. I've sent three emails and left two messages...nothing.
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Oct 24, 2011 10:50 AMby heystan42,That absolutely solved the problem for me!! Took my dumb a## a minute to figure out that you meant the preferences WITHIN iCLOUD CALENDAR and not 'System Preferences' iCloud options (the "little gear" in the upper right hand corner, folks).
Once I got in the right place, simply checked that box, confirmed those other preferences while I was in there, then clicked "done".
A system message popped up, telling me that the calendar was gathering birthday information and updating.
Within less than a minute? SHAZAM!! I think the technical term is "FM"
Thanks vdr74 -- problem solved!!
