iPhone Calendar search not working

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

Took me weeks of searching to no avail. But I finally figured it out.

In the calendar app, under calendars, others, make sure you have a check mark next to SIRI suggestions. Now I can search past present and future.

Would have been nice for support to have posted this a few thousand headaches ago.

I have 17.1.1. In the calendar app under Siri Search I have selected “show app in search” and “show content in search” and before I had that selected my Calendar app, search was broken.

Now it is not. The naming of those two buttons don’t really mean much. But if you have them selected the calendar search seems to work.

I have been determined to sort this as I am self employed and use my calendar for work.

sorted tick ☑️

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

I have been determined to sort this as I am self employed and use my calendar for work.

sorted tick ☑️

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

I did the most recent update iOS 16.1 and my calendar search function appears to be working again.

I had that enabled so it might not be the same issue that I had but here’s something I noticed when I was checking g to see if I had that Siri option enabled.

To test this I needed to remember something that old to search for in my calendar. But couldn’t think of anything to search for older than a year or more so I went to the calendar and scrolled back two years and at first there was nothing in my calendar (no dots on days to indicate there’s an event there when in year view). But then events started showing up in the calendar as I assume it started pulling events down from iCloud.

So here’s my guess, when searching originally I think the event I was looking for was older and not synced down. But if I scroll back a couple years it triggers it to pull down events and now it will find events in those years.

Either way it seems very odd that the app can’t pull search results from iCloud fast enough.

Hi peek201, We appreciate you reaching out to us. We understand that you are experiencing issues searching for calendar events on your iPhone.

We’d like to gather additional details that may help us be in a better position to assist you.

Did you use the steps in the article below to set up your Calendar?

Set up iCloud for Calendar on all your devices

If yes, we recommend that you check for a software update.

While it isn't inherently assured that an update will resolve the issue, updating to the latest software version for your device can help isolate potential software issues. 

Kindly secure a backup and update.

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

If the issue persists, we recommend that you reach out to us here so we can take a closer look into the issue: Get Support

Take care!

I’m having the same issue iPhone 11 IOS 16.1.2.

no option for further updates.

search with Siri works but not on calendar

Unfortunately turning on those two calendar options didn’t fix the problem. The calendar app will search if I only put in one letter (sort of), but it doesn’t find all the entries that contain that letter. It really needs to be able to search on a string. In my opinion, 17.1.1 introduced a bug that needs to be fixed. Search works fine on my iPads.

My iPhone 13, iOS 16.0.3, calendar search is not working. I have multiple events past and future and search says no results.

I have the same issue. I used to use it regularly.

I have 16.0.3 and the search is not working in calendar - zero results despite those events showing on the calendar. It was working fine before the 16.0.2 update. I use this feature regularly.

My calendar search hasn't worked since 16.1 update. Just updated to 16.2 and it still isn't fixed. Have restarted and still nothing.

I’ve tried all of the above and still won’t work… 2nd time I’ve experienced this issue, not sure how it resolved itself the first time but very frustrating given I use my calendar to book clients for my business… usually autogenerates the information for each client… not anymore