Inability to search in Calendar on my Mac

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 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... !

Safe mode didn't help me in any way.

There's no known fix for this and the secret fix can only be obtained from Apple py phone?

Im on 12.1 with mini2018, so upgrading isn't the fix for me.

I'm quite tired that every bug in macOS nowadays is handled by re-installing the whole system.

I have the same issue as well, brand new 14" M1Pro MBP on Monterey 12.2.1

Calendar search function unusable. Major issue for me as I use this for writing reports with assessment / meeting dates for work. Hope enough of us complain that Apple can address this ASAP.

Hi Jason,

Thanks but I went through this to no avail - I also had a phone call with 1st level support and then a video call when an "expert tecnician" operated within my computer and unfortunately I still can't search wothon the ICal.

I really hope that the new Monterrey update will fix this !!!

Federico

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.

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.

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.

Since downloading Monterey, I can't search the calendar for ANY events (past or future). When is Apple going to fix this issue?