Inability to search in Calendar on my Mac

I had this problem (no search results in calendar app but correct results in spotlight) on release 12.3.1.

It is gone after update to 12.4.

My best guess is: this is not a function specifically wrong and it became fixed in a certain release.

This is a still existing bug which leads to a corrupted connectivity between calendar and spotlight search and it becomes fixed with whatever new release you put on. But this means also, it may come back on 12.4. as well.

If some engineers at Apple read in here ... there is some bug tracking to do for you.

My calendar doesn’t allow me to search properly. It only shows the most recent events of the same name. This used to be only my phone and now it’s doing on my Mac book air Monterey o/s 12.4

It will not bring up some of the events that are on the current page, I’m looking and typing it in, but no results!

I spent several hours talking to the advanced technicians at Apple Support over the course of three days last week. We did practically everything to resolve this issue of the search not working on o/s Monterey including reinstalling the o/s.

My next to the last call I was told that this fix works almost every time, so I can hold for another half hour or I could call back if it did not work. It did not work and can never get back to the same technician, unless supposedly they give you their email address.

At the conclusion of my last call i was told that they have been working on this issue since Monterey came out in the fall of 2021 and they still don't have a fix.

2021 14 inch with the exact same issues, solved by the above advice,

system preferences

spotlight

privacy tab

add mac drive to privacy

restart mac

remove max drive from privacy

restart mac

go to spotlight and search something, you will see a status bar, come back every so often till this has vanished

check a search in iCal, solved the issue for me

thank you tinkertots

Did you make sure to restart between each process as listed, the only other thing I did was a search in spotlight after the status bar was done, this showed the events in reminders (even though they are iCal events) the lot was then searchable in iCal

maybe give it another go restart after adding it and again after removing it in privacy.

good luck

Yes I restarted after adding Mac drive to privacy, and after removing Mac Drive.

I then did the same with search results Events and Reminders.

My spotlight will only show those results and none from iCal/calendar.

My calendar will only search in prior years.

Yes I did restart after adding MacHD to privacy and again after removing it.

I just did it again today. I was hopeful for the search took a long time to index. I don’t know if it finished, for I walked away and upon returning my laptop was in sleep mode and the indexing wasn’t appearing on screen.

The spyglass search only gives me a couple of many results that should appear from Calendar, (no longer iCal?), and nothing for current year on my laptop. (I have my old laptop for everything before 7/2020, my new laptop for 8/2020-12/31/2021 and my phone for current year!

Thanks for your help and encouragement!

Please Apple: it appears this problem has existed now for a long time. I just got my new AirM2, with Monterey 12.4, and now can't search the calendar--which is a function I have always used lots.

How is it that it hasn't been fixed after existing for months?!

Please fix this!

Same here! I have my old Mac with iCal and works perfectly.

This is a feature that I rely heavily on for health issues.

I can’t believe Apple would do this to their customers and not even tell us! They lie on the phone until you wear them out before the admission of the faulty Calendar app. in Monterey.

I wish somehow we could protest. After this experience in the 21 years of using only Mac o/s’s.

Im about to give up on Apple and go back to android, they last longer.

Hi,

Seems I am in the same boat as many of you.

I have updated the software but no luck. Still can't find anything that isn't in today's calendar. Oddly, some re-occurring events such as birthdays will go back only to 2021.

Please can Apple fix or provide a solution.

Thanks,

Using Monterey on MacBook Pro 2021 Apple M1 Pro

I have the same problem on my Air M1 2020. I booted into safe mode and problem continues.

I have this problem too, BRAND NEW MacBook Pro 14" and NO ability to search my native Apple Calendars! I use this feature multiple times per day!

Thanks csl for the work around tip. Since apparently this is not a user problem I'll wait for Apple to fix it with an update or go to the Genius Bar the next time I'm in a city.