Calendar has dots on every day when there's no events

In addition to the above discussed issue of dots being created on all dates on the iPhone Calendar when at least one recurring event has a mismatched start/end date issue (start date after end date corruption in a record), there's also a bug with 3.0 that precludes viewing recurring events that are over 75 years old. I had this problem with my parent's birthdays and had to resolve it by setting their birth years to something much more recent (e.g., 2008), then simply adding a note comment for the actual birth year (1922, 1927) in their Address Book record.

I've been having the same issue. In my case, I'm using an imported .ics calendar of my Facebook Contacts' birthdays (FBCal) in Google Calendar, which is then synced to iphone using the exchange server.

In Google Calendar, the events are all-day events with the start & end dates the same.

However once they're synced to the iphone, they've somehow become wrong: They're all set to end the day before they start! From previous discussions I've read, this is what causes the dots every day. It also causes the events to not appear in the "List" option at the bottom of the iphone calendar page.

If I edit an event to have the correct start & end date, the event then appears in my list.

I'm going to experiment with syncing via CalDAV instead of Google's Exchange server, and see if this helps.

I'll keep you all posted!

May I ask where you find that info in your events:

+They're all set to end the day before they start! From previous discussions I've read, this is what causes the dots every day.+

In my birthday events I have just a start date and an end date (both are the same day) and it's set to "ganztägig" which means full day/ all day long.

+it also causes the events to not appear in the "List" option at the bottom of the iphone calendar page.+

This does not happen in my case.

I have no idea...

Hi, it may be a bit tedious, but it might be worth checking through all of your birthdays and make sure that all of them do start and end on the same day, as starting & ending on different days is one reason that I have read that the dots appear.

If they are all the same start & end date, then I'm not sure what else to suggest other than what's already been posted above

Thanks,

but I've checked already. I have 21 birthdays in my birthday calendar. Checked all of them. All at same day.

Maybe it's just a line of bad coding in OS 3 or on MobileMe.

I hope for OS 3.1 or 3.1.1... Sent feedback to Apple a while ago.

Hi - I've got one appointment (that was supposed to be a birthday that I manually input), but it spans 2 days. I keep changing it to 1 day and then delete it, but it seems to keep reappearing. Anyone have any idea how to delete this permanently (maybe a script or something)? Thanks for any help.

I had the same after upgrading to v.3.0 on my 3G - dots all the way back to Feb 1933 on my phone, not on my mac. I use mobile me, which does seem to be the weak link in all of this.

Unsubscribed to all calendars on the phone, deleted everything on the calendar and just to make sure, republished my subscribed UK Holidays calendar on my iCal. Rejoined to mobile me on my phone and touch-wood, haven't had a problem since.

Good luck.

I just published my Address Book birthdays as "Birthdays 2" and subscribed to it on my iPhone 3GS.

This calendar shows dots on every day on my iPhone.

No other calendar that I have (I have 6 or 7 on my Mac) has this problem.

Per other suggestions, I edited my mother's birthdate from 1927 -> 1977, and resynched.

Same issue - the iPhone displays a dot on every day for the subscribed calendar.
I checked all other birthdays, I cannot find any other entry that I made earlier than 1950.

Correction to my last post - I did not wait long enough for the over-the-air sync.

After 10 minutes, the Birthdays 2 calendar works as it should.

Clearly this is an issue with the early start dates then.

Saw this on another thread - the shareware Dates2Ical program will push all the dates in your Address Book into your iCal.

Just thought I'd put my 2-cents in.

After recently learning the whole "publish"/"subscribe" thing with the calendars, I too ran into the everyday dots with no events in them. I switched my calendars on my iPhone from only Birthdays, to only Home and only Work. The only calendar giving me the same problem is the Birthdays calendar.

I read this whole thread and I tried the easiest thing I can fix. I have only 2 contacts with birthdays before or on 1932; one 1930 and the other 1932. I decided to change them to something recent and add the real year in the notes, like someone suggested. I manually synced mobile me, and just in case, I unpublished my Birthdays calendar, deleted the subscription from my iPhone and re-did those whole process.

Vuala! It worked! Just for kicks, I will be testing every year from 1932 to 1950 (1950 is the earlier year I have after 1932 and works fine) and see at what year this problem is occurring.

Hopefully this helps others out there.

Luckily I did not have to test long. I tested my own contact information changing my birthday to different dates as a test.

I have found that any Birthday ON or before December 12th, 1932 I get ALL DOTS on every day in the birthday calendar. When I changed my birthday to December 13th, 1932 all the dots go away, after about 10 seconds for synchronization. I have no idea if this date is definitive or has any relation to the current date, maybe a certain number of days from then till now or whatever.

I'm not sure if Apple is already ware of this bug. Anyone who has problems with this can try it and I would love to know if you have the same resolution. So you know my settings are as follows.

MAC: sync contacts and calendar to mobile me automatically via the MobileMe app in the prefs.
iPhone: sync contacts and calendar automatically via MobileMe.

From my MAC I publish my birthdays calendar with only two options set:
1- Publish changes automatically <--this is important if you want the process of updating your birthdays (or whatever calendar it is) automatically
2- Publish titles and notes

On my iPhone I subscribe to the calendar and and under SETTINGS--> MAIL, CONTACTS, CALENDARS-->FETCH NEW DATA-->ADVANCED-->BIRTHDAYS I have Select Schedule to manual (this will get data as soon as I open the calendar app in my iPhone allowing my tests to be faster instead of waiting 15 minutes)

At this point, I changed the birthday of my contact information on my iPhone. Within 10 seconds I see the change on my iCal and I also see the activity indicator turn on next the the Birthday calendar in iCal then turns off. If you do not have your MAC or other client in front of you, I say to wait at least 15 seconds, maybe more depending on network latency. At this point I check my calendar on my iPhone and in about 5 seconds the birthdays update. When I have a date earlier than 12/13/1932 I get all the dots and when set on or after the dots disappear.

This may or may not help someone who has the same problem as I but it may be a set forward to temporarily solve your problem until Apple releases a fix. I can't believe that Apple would even release an update with this kind of problem. I wonder exactly how much testing have they done.

Deleting a birthday on 1926 solved the problem for me. I talked to MobileMe support via chat and they were not aware of this issue. However, they said they will further investigate and get back to me. I'll post any updates.

With this thread I was finally able to work around the bug.
The problem definitely lies with the <1932 dates. Once I took my grandpa's birthday out, the calendar no longer had bullet points for each day without events

Thanks for the workaround, but I would definitely like to see this bug resolved in a future update 🙂

Would just like to say I'm also having this problem!

It only seems to be an issue with the Birthday calendar. If I publish and subscribe to any of my other calendars there's no problem.

Yes, same here. Discovered right know.
Did a search here and found this thread.

Maybe it's MobileMe or something for an 3.1 update...