Inability to search in Calendar on my Mac

Same problem. I've for years been able to search for past events on my Mac, and now, with a brand new iMac M1 and updated OS Monterey, suddenly the calendar search for past events gives absolutely nothing. I, like others, see my calendar events of the past on my other devices, but not on their Macs. I work primarily at a desk and rely on quick calendar searches there for much of my work. Please, Apple: what is wrong with Monterey's Calendar app? We need a solution badly.

Same problem here. New 14" MacBook Pro M1Pro w Monterey 12.0.1 synched with iCloud for a week. Just tried a calendar search and no results for any search in the calendar search field.

However, if I search the Mac with spotlight (from the Finder men bar), I get the expected results organized under Events & Reminders (Events and Reminders checkbox inside of Spotlight system settings is enabled). So the problem is not a spotlight indexing failure. Anyway this is a temp workaround.

Hello mset68.

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you are not able to search the Calendar for past events. We know it's important for our apps to work as expected and we'll be glad to assist.

Let's start up in safe mode and test: Start up your Mac in safe mode

If the issue persists, Contact Apple for support and service

Cheers.

see below for rebuilding your spotlight index. But if spotlight finds all your events and Calendar does not, it seems unlikely to be a spotlight index issue. You can try anyway, but it can take quite a while.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

The procedure provided by "DDjac" WORKED for me.

DDjac posted this procedure on Jan 19, 2022 7:05 AM in response to Lakeaire.

DDjac's posting is in the "Apple Community" under the topic "Can't search in iCal".

Hopefully, this link/URL will take you to it:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253424643?answerId=256707361022&page=2

After doing every step in that procedure

(exactly like it's author stated, including selecting the entire harddrive MacIntosh HD),

my calendar searches are now working!

Apple's "Calendar.app" (version 11.0), on my iMac (M1-chip),

running Mac OS Monterey 12.3.1, has now started to correctly search my calendar.

It is no longer returning the ridiculous "No Results".

I say started because it will take awhile for Spotlight to re-build it's indexes

(since you MUST pick the entire harddrive MacIntosh HD to make this procedure

work successfully).

For your reference/convenience, here is DDjac's posting:

Ok, I found a workaround in some other thread and it worked for me: Rebuild the Spotlight Index

Apple already published this workaround for another issue and this procedure also rebuilds the calendar search index:

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

Basically it works like this:

open System Preferences, then click Spotlight

click the Privacy tab

add the main harddisk of your Mac to the list of items which should be excluded from the indexing process.

close System Preferences

reboot the mac

then: do the same steps and remove the harddisk form the list

reboot the mac again and the rebuild the spotlight index process starts (internally)

As I understand, these steps "force" to rebuild the spotlight index which then includes the calendar entries.

The rebuild takes a while so don't expect to get search results immediately.

But this procedure worked for me!

[AND IT WORKED for me (TinkerTots) on 5/17/2022, on my iMac (2021, M1 chip), running Mac OS (Monterey) 12.3.1, with

Apple "Calendar.app" version 11.0.]

I have the same problem here, after I switched to Monterey (by Migration Assistant from my old Macbook Air to new M1 Macbook Air 2020- Monterey). Desparetely waiting for this recovery, it is very crucial for my job! It is urgent to be able to search in the Calendar.

I am having exactly the same problem on a new MacPro 14" M1Pro chip running Monterey. My son has a new MacBook Air with an M1 chip running Monterey and his Calendar search function works fine - indicates it may not be an OS issue? I might also add that not all of my past events with the same subject or even some individual past events show up in a Spotlight search and when they do I only get events in the past year. I was able to search back years in Calendar prior to Monterey and the 14" Macbook Pro. A fix would be good because manually searching back through years for repeated events is not doable.

Thanks, Harriet! My system preferences Software Update did not tell me the update was out, but looked up another way to get it--went to About This Mac and clicked on Software Update--that downloaded 12.1 and the searches are fixed!

The 12.1 install fixed the problem for me, too. It may be that your spotlight indexing is not finished or disabled. Try searching for a known cal event using spotlight (cmd-space). If that fails, there is a problem with your spotlight index. Consult with methods for re-indexing your boot drive. When that is done test again and let us know.

Best,

-Chris

I have the same problem on my macbook pro M1 Max which arrived before Christmas (after 6 weeks waiting list) and it is already a couple of weeks that I reached out to Support with no avail.

Initially the system wasn't indexing and couldn't perform searches on finder, now I fixed that but still have problems with ICal (which I use a lot). I really hope this will be fixed soon... !

Hi Harriet,

Yes I updated to Monterrey 12.1 and things have gotten a bit better as I am now able to perform searches in finder. But same problems remain with the ICal as I couldn't perform searches from 2021 backwards and the turnaround with Spotlight / Events search doesn't show them either.

Any idea how to fix this?

Many thanks

Federico

No idea. After I upgraded to 12.1, everything works perfectly. I have always had good luck with Apple Support. When you call, ask for a higher level tech. The 1st level are often newer and have less experience. The 2nd or 3rd level are much better. If you live near an Apple store, make an appointment with the Genius Bar. Good luck!

Much to my dismay, I discovered the same problem today and landed here from a search. Upgrading to 12.1 also solved the problem for me, and search in Calendar works just great again. Also loving my new MBP Max!