“Time to leave” alert in calendar not working

Thank you so much. I too searched forums the web and what not. Your solution worked. Thank you!!

I believe you should set your time zone to "floating" for a mobile device you are taking across time zones.

This is a darn joke!!! Either it's yet another way Apple decided to collect data about me, or it's some userfriendliness-unsavvy IT guy who came up with this nonsense. I enter the the time to travel manually and get this very same message! It makes no sense. Anyway, I guess Apple employed some nitwit intern to "improve" the calendar app, making it worse as result.

Yes, this seems to be true. If I set an appointment for a few minutes from now, it generates the "time to leave" notification, but if it isn't recently made this way, Calendar forgets entirely about generating the notification. Very frustrating (and it has also caused me to be late a few times). This service used to work perfectly but at some point Apple totally screwed it up. I don't know which update broke it, but I no longer get calendar notifications on any of my Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, or Mac). Could it be an iCloud setting?

It is true that it is very frustrating. It was a very good, unique service, which nobody else offers.

I don't think it's a problem with iCloud because besides trying my iCloud account, I've tested my calendar with my Outlook and Gmail accounts and it doesn't work either. Rather seems a mistake of the App Calendar.

I hope that in iOS 15 Apple stop focusing on creating new emojis for iMessage and fix this bug!

Since it doesn't work on my Mac anymore either, I suspect it's a change made to location services shared by all Apple devices, which may or may not rely on iCloud. Your device no longer knows where you are so it doesn't know how to notify you of a time to leave.

Sorry, but no, this does not fix the problem for everyone. It doesn't for me. My locations services are turned on and my calendar setting are the same as yours, and I still don't receive time to leave notifications. I even tried a location services reset. It doesn't help either.

I did just receive a time to leave notification on my Mac for the first time in months, but it did not appear on my phone, iPad or watch. So this seems to be a bug without any solution that we can implement.

It's very frustrating because after many weeks sending feedback to Apple before they released the iOS 14.5 update, I thought they were going to fix it.

Again, emojis updates return for iMessage (nothing useful for those of us who live in Europe, because here we use WhatsApp) and improved settings for iPhone 12 (among other things, but without fixing time to leave).

As a curiosity to say that since the pandemic began, time to leave ceased to be available in the Outlook and Waze Apps until today. It was also curious that on Android this function also stopped working throughout 2020 (now it is working again).

Same here.

Just sent a report to Apple.

However, it is hard to imagine this would not have surfaced in Apple‘s internal testing.

Maybe this functionality is going to be phased out? Just a wild guess … We will see.

Hello,

Interestingly I have made the adjustments you have said (activate travel time and time to leave) and I still do not receive notifications for when it is time to go out to events. Is there something else I need to adjust that has been overlooked?

With another week or so of testing I can confirm that the solution I suggested above fixed the problem with time to leave alerts. They now work for me again. The only reason I can imagine why it doesn't work for everyone would be due to a location services settings on one or all of your Apple devices.

What good news that worked after a week of testing!

Then always when creating an event you have enabled the option travel time? Do you have it according to the current location or in a specific location?

Another question, how do you have the location services settings on all your Apple devices to make it work for you? In my case I have my iPhone and my iMac.

And finally, there is some setting that sends on all the other Apple devices? If it is the setting of location services in the iMac, in iCloud or on the iPhone that tells everyone else how they should work.

How travel time is set seems to depend on the device. On my iMac and MBA calendars it's always "from home" but on my mobile devices I can choose my starting point as "current location" or a specific place. I assume iCloud shares this information amongst our devices. I am not certain how my iMac and MBA know my home location. My iMac obviously stays on my desk and I have not checked to see what happens when I take my MBA elsewhere.