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Delete " On My iPhone" calendars? iPhone 3.0

How in the world do you delete a formerly synced calendar from the iPhone?

With the new CalDAV support I want to replace my synced versions with remote versions, but the synced versions are lingering, even after un-checking the sync calendars option in iTunes.

iPhone OS 3.0

Posted on Jun 17, 2009 8:46 PM

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Jun 18, 2009 7:35 AM in response to hfig79

All my (used) calendars are remote, so this does get rid of most, except the one that Mail.app needs. Thankfully the iPhone lets us pick a remote calendar as the default one. Why it doesn't float to the top of the list I'll never know.

In OS X 10.6 I really hope Apple addresses the mess they created from dipping Mail's toes in iCal's waters. But that's another topic altogether.

Jun 18, 2009 7:52 AM in response to Dave Razorsek

I think I've resolved it too: my problem was that I was trying to add my google calendar (CalDAV) in both iCal and on my iPhone, so the iTunes was syncing the iCal version. The weird thing was this was happening even when I told iTunes not to sync it, unchecked boxes, did the Advanced Replace Information on this Phone thing.

Finally, I've had to actually delete my iCal CalDAV calendars, then resync the phone with the Advanced Replace Information option to blow away all the previously synced calendars. So now the iPhone's doing exactly the right thing. I haven't yet tried readding my iCal CalDAV calendars to see if I can have an up to date calendar on my iPhone and my Mac! I suppose that's a lot to ask :-P

Jun 18, 2009 8:20 AM in response to dbrasco

That seems to be a different issue caused from MobileMe sync being used in conjunction with iTunes sync that creates duplicate calendars. I'll read it again incase I've missed something.

The problem this topic hopes to address is leftover iPhone calendars that are no longer being synced due to adding CalDAV accounts where those calendars actually reside.

Jun 18, 2009 9:18 AM in response to StrawHousePig

I agree, the OP is referring to a separate issue. The proposed solution works if the duplicate calendar is created by a MobileMe account. However, it sounds like the OP is having the same problem as me, and it doesn't involve MobileMe. I sync my MS Outlook and Google calendars using Google Sync. I used to sync my calendar to my iPhone through iTunes which created the original calendar on my phone. Now, after setting up a CalDav account to sync the same calendar from Google, I am stuck with two identical copies of the calendar. Turning off calendar sync in iTunes didn't solve the issue and since we aren't using MobileMe, we aren't given the options to merge calendars upon setting it up.

As a temporary solution, I've just gone to the "Calendars" tab of the calendar app and only selected the Google calendar so the duplicate isn't showing. However, this means I can't see any other Google calendars I've imported. Anyone have a real solution? I'd love to get this original "On My iPhone" calendar from the Outlook-iTunes sync deleted off my phone!

Jun 18, 2009 9:26 AM in response to Andrew Otwell

I never had any of these problems so I don't know if you'll be able to get it to work. But I do have my phone synced to my google caldav and my ical synced to my google caldav separately. They both update fine. I first unsynced all my ical calendars (except Birthdays and Holidays), then I added the caldavs to my phone. Then to ical. Everything seems to work fine. Hopefully you guys can also figure what's causing your problems.

Delete " On My iPhone" calendars? iPhone 3.0

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