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Inability to search in Calendar on my Mac

Hello. I discovered today that I am unable to search for past events in Calendar on my MacBook Pro 2015. I am running Monterey, and all recent updates have been applied. I am using iCloud Calendar.


I get no results, even if I search for an event from a few days ago, or from a few weeks in the future. This issue does not replicate on my iPhone or my iPad, and all events are syncing in real time.


I've attached a screenshot, wherein I searched for an old Doctor's appointment. I've had several appointments with this Doctor and they all show up when I search on my iPhone or iPad. You will see that the search field says "Today" but the issue occurs in the Week, Month, and Year views.


I'm thinking that this is a Monetary bug. Anyone else experiencing this issue?


Many Thanks


MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Nov 11, 2021 7:35 AM

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Posted on Nov 17, 2021 9:08 AM

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.

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Jan 29, 2022 8:29 AM in response to mset68

I have the same issue probably since I started macOS Monterey, though I can get the search results from SpotLight search. I just updated the OS to macOS Monterey 12.2 last night and the issue on Calendar App has not be resolved.


It seems there are only 2 possibilities:


1) The issue is too complicated and could not be fixed soon.

2) Apple didn't make it a priority to fix this.

Feb 15, 2022 1:25 PM in response to mset68

Ok, before anyone goes and reinstalls macOS or completely re-indexes Spotlight, try this fix:


1.) Go to System Preferences -- Spotlight, then in the privacy tab add:


user/Library/Calendars


2.) Close System Preferences


3.) Re-open System Preferences and go back to Spotlight - Privacy


4.) REMOVE Calendars from the Privacy tab


I did that about 5 minutes ago, and Spotlight already re-indexed the Calendar apparently as now I can finally search for things in Calendar going back 15 years when I first started using it.


For reference, in Calendar I could not search for anything since getting the new MBP M1 Max on launch day, and I could not find any Calendar events at all in Spotlight, not even the ones added since getting the MBP.


Hope this helps and saves people from doing anything bigger than that.

Feb 17, 2022 5:00 PM in response to mset68

I too have this problem, brand new 16" MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD. I am running Monterey 12.2.1, the current up to date OS version.


I spent THREE HOURS on the phone with a "senior advisor" at Applecare yesterday to no avail. He said he would send the issue to the "engineers" and call me back tomorrow. Then, today I received an email from him saying I need to await the next version of the OS for a fix. This is really quite ridiculous. I've had Mac's since the original in 1984 and this is among the most frustrating problems I've had.


I guess I'll wait, but might try to go to the genius bar at my local store.


I'm not about to reinstall the OS though that is tempting.

Feb 19, 2022 2:59 PM in response to dunco

Not at all sure how this happened but just now, 1357 PST on February 19, 2022, SEARCH IN THE CALENDAR APP WORKS !


I was told I needed to await an OS update but none have been released to my knowledge. I have auto updates turned off on all my machines. I'd urge the rest of us to check as well. It was a total surprise to me, but I'm quite pleased. This lovely machine now does essentially what I want it to do.

Mar 24, 2022 10:00 AM in response to ___C

I called Apple Support and basically did what Jason Collin suggested above, I'll copy and paste it again:


1.) Go to System Preferences -- Spotlight, then in the privacy tab add:


user/Library/Calendars


2.) Close System Preferences


3.) Re-open System Preferences and go back to Spotlight - Privacy


4.) REMOVE Calendars from the Privacy tab


Now I can search past events on my calendar again. Yay!

May 17, 2022 9:40 PM in response to ___C

Tried this and no luck. Apple iMac (M1, 2021) Monterey 12.3.1;

This iMac replaced an aging MacBook Pro (laptop 2016) and I used Apple's "Migration Assistant" utility to copy from this older laptop (now de-commissioned & traded-in back to Apple) to the new iMac. I've tried all the "workarounds" suggested and still searches in the Apple Calendar app return "No Results." The search box seems to be stuck on only search "Today."


Curiously, the that same app does search correctly on my other MacBook Pro (laptop 2019) running the same Mac OS (Monterey 12.3.1). Of course, Migration Assistant was never used to setup this older laptop.

Inability to search in Calendar on my Mac

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