Calendar macOS Ventura crashes on entering location field contents

It's interesting that it isn't working for everyone. It is now working for me on 13.4.1. Then again, the solution of deleting files from ~/Library also worked for a few days until it stopped, so I'll save the champagne until Monday.

The change log for 13.4.1 does not mention bug fixes, just "This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users."

I did create a ticket and continued escalating this through to senior tech support who looked through my logs and didn't find anything interesting. She eventually realized that this is a bug and a defect had been open in their system for this.

However, something else is going on. If I go to

Calendar->Accounts->Add Accounts...->Add Other Account->CalDav acccount->Change Account Type to 'advanced'->Cancel

The dialog to create an account remains on the screen, but is empty. There's no way to close or cancel from it except for Force Quit. Oddly, this does not happen if I begin the same process from Calendar->Add Account...

This isn't just a problem with caldav calendars. Creating a new event on the local "My Calendar" also crashes when entering a location on Calendar 13.0 under Ventura 13.4

Crashes with CalDAV calendars when entering location are happily persisting with macOS 13.2. Apple does not seem to care. Crash log, sys log, video, steps on how to reproduce all provided to Apple Development. 🙄

Update with 13.3: Typing 1 or 2 letters shows a list of suggestions. I can pick one and leave the dialog with the location set. HOWEVER typing a 3rd letter Apple Calendar crashes - exactly as before.

Hey Apple, you must be kidding us.

We are using DSM 7.2 and Macbooks with Apple Silicon and macmini with Intel cpu... still crashes on all machines. I think, it doesn't matter which Macbook model or Intel/Apple Silicon one is using.

It will be random if it works or not... as Apple always does with problems like this!

Apple doesn't care. This was reported in 2022 already after the regression was introduced with macOS 13 Ventura. The issue has status "open". Synology is aware as well and claims to have reached out to Apple.

Last week tried a few times to escalate this via Telephone but that is a hopeless endeavor. This depends a lot how competent support staff is so your mileage may vary, but in my case the staff was rather incompetent and not interested in gathering all available info. I gave them the URL to this discussion here but they insisted on me creating a screenshot and sending the screenshot via their file upload link instead of justing writing it down. 🤦

The longer I use Apple products the less I become hopeful, they can manage to resolve essential issues. I also become less interested in macOS overall to be honest. It just seems like a waste of time if Apple is not willing to take user reports seriously.

FWIW I do not experience a crash when I enter location in a new Calendar entry running Ventura Version 13.6.5 (22G621) on a 2017 27" iMac.

Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?

Ventura version 13.0.1

Same issue here, looks like it always crashes after entering the 3rd character in the location field.

Confirmed that this crasher bug is persisting in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A339). Speechless indeed 🤯

I'll add my limited experience. Using Synology NAS calendar here. The Beta also resolved the issue.

I updated today to Ventura 13.1 and I have the same issue.

I'm also using iCal with a Synology Calendar.

My calendar have the same issue. While typing in the location field, the app crashes.

I tried in safe mode but same issue.

So true.. Thanks for your activity vs Apple Development.

Using Ical and Synology calendar.

BTW there is no issue with Ios on the Iphone

Other identified issue : impossible to send mail when adding invitees for an event.

Same for me. It's been happening for weeks. Frankly all of the Mac apps like Calendar and Contacts suck. They're never updated. And they're obviously low priority for ongoing maintenance. Maybe one day Apple will step up to the plate to improve the quality of basics apps that run on their expensive hardware.

I opened a ticket with my new and now expiring MacBook Pro support. They opened a ticket. I spoke to their escalation person. They asked me to test with another Synology account to make sure it wasn't an account issue. I'm not doing that. It's obviously not limited to my account as evidenced by all here reporting the same issue. They asked me to test in Safe Mode. The problem persists with Safe Mode as all of you know. So I report this again in the support chat and they ask again when someone can call. I asked why. She said they usually want you to reinstall the OS if the problem persists with Safe Mode. I told them to forget it. I'm fed up with their stupid process. I shared the link to this discussion and told them they can test the problem themselves. Their support is horrible. The end.

I have an open case with Apple and the answer I got so far is, they won't fix it.

I don't understand such an answer, an App should never crash! Also CalDAV is a supported feature in macOS. I don't get it.