My calendar shows the wrong week numbers

Walter Wilcoxen wrote:

Yeah, I agree. Swedes are pretty perturbed - we use week numbers ALOT!

Then change your region to one that uses your preferred style of week numbers. Go to Settings/General/Language & Region.

Hey there, rebekka241.

It appears that you're seeing your calendar weeks one week ahead than expected on your iPhone, while on your boyfriend's iPhone, everything looks good. To confirm, settings may cause the Calendar app to display different for everyone. Were you able to compare your Calendar settings to your boyfriends Calendar settings? Your answer can help us determine possible next steps.

Does restarting your iPhone help? Restart your iPhone We know it may seem like a simple step, but it can possibly help.

If the issue continues, you could back up your iPhone and then try deleting and installing the Calendar app again:

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Let us know how that goes. Take care.

I disagree. The correct solution would be for Apple to allow the ISO8601 calendar on the iPhones. Changing my region to Sweden to get correct week numbers means that I now see a comma instead of a decimal point when using the calculator function and worst of all, Apple Watch and iPhone now record exercise distances in km rather than miles. This is an issue for Apple to fix, not for customers to try work arounds that are not satisfactory.

Hi Joseph

Sorry but that is really not the answer.

The solution is to change the calendar from Gregorian to ISO 8601 under Language and region.

But ISO 8601 doesn't exist anymore, which it used to do back in 2016/2017 when I had the problem first time around.

Now the problem is back, and we can't fix it. If this setting is gone for everybody and not just me, you are ruining calendars for whole countries.

Please advise how to fix the calendar, and if not then report it asap.

Thanks :)

Just checked by switching between Sweden and USA and then back again. When Sweden was chosen, iCal showed we are in week 7 now. When USA was chosen iCal showed us being in week 8! News app disappears when Sweden is chosen. Go figure.

Hi all,

Pls advise if you have any solution here . Because in my iPhone 12Pro also have the same problem. Today is 22/Feb and it should be week 8. But in iPhone calendar it is showing week 9 ? And also there is no option to select iso 8601 calendar ..... can anybody help to solve this ?

Hi Lawrence,

I read all posts but I didn’t find any proper solution here. I solved this is MacBook Air by selecting ISO 8601 calendar in region and language setting. But this ISO calendar I couldn’t find in iPhone 12 Pro. Can you pls check and guide me specifically to solve this ?

You must set the Region to one that uses the ISO8601 standard, which means most of the world except for North America.

Or get a 3rd party app from the app store that supports ISO 8601, such as Week Calendar.

Thank you for the tip. I have changed my region setting into UK instead of actual location and then get the proper calendar week. I Didn't know that time zone setup can be set up separately with region. Thanks a lot!!

Sorry it’s not helpful, but that is the only solution for the built in calendar, other than mentally correcting it by subtracting 1 when you look at the week number. Or change the day your week starts so January 1 falls in what you want week 1 to be.

The much better solution is to install a 3rd party calendar such as WeekCal to replace the admittedly minimalist calendar that is built it. Most 3rd party calendars let you choose the week number standard you want to use. It is miles (or kilometers) ahead of the built in calendar in almost every feature, including the ability to save events as templates, assign icons to calendar entries, create templates that will insert multiple events in one step, Drag & drop events, putting 1 event in multiple calendars, syncing your settings across multiple iOS devices and a host of other features.

This was helpful. I was facing this problem in my Macbook Calendar; and fortunately the settings-general do allow us to specify ISO8601 calendar. On changing this from the default Gregorian, this problem is resolved!

Thank you.

Well, there’s no point in disagreeing in this user to user forum where Apple won’t see it. The right place to disagree: https://apple.com/feedback. And, BTW, I agree with you 😁

Did reinstalling iCal help anyone?

Yeah, I agree. Swedes are pretty perturbed - we use week numbers ALOT!

wow, that works, such a simple fix. I always was hesitant about changing my region because "Jag förstår inte så bra svenska"! But I could keep english as the language.

Thanks,

w