iPhone calendar keeping skipping back to same date

If there is one specific date that you keep getting flipped back to, see if you have one or more repeating events on that date. Try deleting those events and see if that fixes it. I kept getting flipped back to Feb. 28, 2020. I had numerous (over 30) daily repeating events that day, a few of which continued to today. I deleted them all and that fixed it.

I have found a solution to this very annoying feature. If you delete the first event entry in your calendar- this is the date that your calendar flicks back to in my case 22/10/2019, it stops flicking back to October 2019 now and stays in the current month of 2021. I had a eureka moment hopefully this works for all those suffering from the same problem.

So I’ve been having the same issue for a long time (calendar opening to September 19, 2019 even though it’s now October 2021). After reading through this whole thread I tried the suggested solution of turning off US holidays. That worked; I re-opened my calendar and it opened to today. Then I clicked on Thursday, November 25, 2021 because that’s Thanksgiving day and I wanted to see if the calendar showed that it was thanksgiving day. It did not since I had turned off US holidays calendar. I closed the calendar app and re-opened it (US holidays still turned off), and lo and behold the calendar opened to November 25, 2021, the exact date that had been open when I closed the Calendar app, not the current date. This led me to believe that whenever you make a setting change in the calendar app then your calendar starts opening to whatever date was last open when you closed the app, rather than the current day. So I did some experimenting, changing settings and then going to some random date, closing the app, then re-opening the app and sure enough each time it opens to whatever random date I was on when I closed the Calendar app. Still no permanent fix, but as far as I can tell the best solution is to make sure that you are on “today” when you close the app after making a change in settings.

What worked for me: My calendar kept flipping back to the same day, February 18, 2020. I saw that I had over 30 events on that day I had set to repeat daily, and a few of those continued to today. I deleted all the events for that day and that seem to have remedied the situation. Hope this works for you, good luck!

If there is one specific date that you keep getting flipped back to, see if you have one or more repeating events on that date. Try deleting those events and see if that fixes it. I kept getting flipped back to Feb. 28, 2020. I had numerous (over 30) daily repeating events that day, a few of which continued to today. I deleted them all and that fixed it. I have the 7 also.

Sorry if I’m posting this twice, I lost track. If there is one specific date that you keep getting flipped back to, see if you have one or more repeating events on that date. Delete those events and see if that fixes it. I kept getting flipped back to Feb. 18, 2020. I saw that I had numerous (over 30) daily repeating events that day, a few of which continued to today. I deleted them all and that fixed it. So far, anyway!

Hi:

I had the same issue and on top of that, I noticed that it will not display anything scheduled before that date. It will show the "dots" meaning that something was scheduled for that date but it will only show me details starting Sept 2019, the same date that was taking my calendar back to at opening.

I got on the phone with apple support. I was advised to delete my Calendar app and download it again. As of now, is showing everything, even before Sept 2019 and after opening and closing several times now, is opening on today's date

Been frustrated with this for months. Somewhere on this thread it mentioned to disable the “US holidays” calendar and guess what - it worked for me.

Don’t know what the root cause is or when it actually started, but that was my workaround/fix for now. @Apple hope you find this and fix it in 15.2.

Thanks for this - it worked for me. I clicked off the US holiday calendar and any others I didn't really need. It hasn't jumped back a year since then.

Hello DLDenver,

We'd love to assist you with viewing your events in the Calendar app. Does the same issue occur after restarting the device using the steps here: Restart your iPhone

Also, is the issue only occurring with a specific calendar in the Calendar app? You can toggle between the different calendars by choosing the Calendars option at the bottom.

Best regards

Hello DLDenver,

I had the same problem. I have reinstalled Calendar app and deleted many oldest items in my callendar. Now when I press Today button it does not take me back to December 2020 and everything seems to work OK now.

Best regards

Hello,

Thanks for the additional info. Since the issue occurs intermittently, then we'd recommend disabling each calendar one by one starting with the one you do not use often just to see if the issue still occurs.

Best regards

POTENTIAL FIX:

Open the calendar, click “calendar” at the bottom and turn off “US Holidays” and “Birthdays” calendars (located under the “Other” category in the calendar list). So far it comes up to the current day every time.

Not a perfect fix because those are nesded calendars to a heavy calendar user. However it’s less annoying to have to constantly click on “Today” since some days I need to check the calendar on an hourly basis. Apple we still need a fix that allows to use Holidays and Birthdays and that comes up to Today each time.

Apparently those are not supported on the calendar syncing settings or something.

I will say disabling the US Holiday Calendar *helped*, what I notice with that workaround is that it still starts back at that date (for me it's sometime in 2020), but very quickly refreshes to today sometimes in a few milleseconds to seconds. i.e. no one said this was *fixed* but it's easily duplicated for engineers to resolve when someone wants to get around to it.

@Jebster01, disabling US Holidays helped - thanks for the tip.