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Whenever I add anything to my calendar on my iPhone it shows up on my wife’s iPhone

for some reason whenever I add anything to my calendar on my iPhone it shows up on my wife’s iPhone. We DO NOT have iCloud running so it is not that. She does not have my email on her phone. We’re do not have family sharing turned on. We are each signed into our own Apple accounts. 🤷‍♂️


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Posted on Apr 20, 2023 12:18 PM

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Posted on Apr 21, 2023 11:31 AM

All calendars sync from email accounts. If you have any email accounts in common and have the calendar feature of that account turned on then all events on those shared email accounts will appear on all devices that share the accounts.


To see which accounts have the calendar feature turned on go to Settings/Calendar/Accounts, look at each account and see which have Calendar turned on. Then go back to Settings/Calendar and see what Default Calendar is set to. This is almost certainly set to a shared email account.


If a calendar says that is is “shared by” then you must have shared it at some time in the past and forgotten; you can unshare it.



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Apr 21, 2023 11:31 AM in response to Alaska-Tim

All calendars sync from email accounts. If you have any email accounts in common and have the calendar feature of that account turned on then all events on those shared email accounts will appear on all devices that share the accounts.


To see which accounts have the calendar feature turned on go to Settings/Calendar/Accounts, look at each account and see which have Calendar turned on. Then go back to Settings/Calendar and see what Default Calendar is set to. This is almost certainly set to a shared email account.


If a calendar says that is is “shared by” then you must have shared it at some time in the past and forgotten; you can unshare it.



Apr 21, 2023 1:43 AM in response to Alaska-Tim

  • How many email accounts you have enabled on your iOS mail app?
  • What is the default Calendar Account that you have enabled?
  • Are you editing an event that is already shared with your wife?
  • The word "anything to my calendar" is not clear to me. Can you please define 'anything' such as events, birthdays, holidays, etc?


Family sharing has no role to play in what you are narrating.



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Please re-post with detail so that someone else can help.


Apr 21, 2023 11:31 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thank you for trying to help. I’ll try to provide more information so that hope fully you can.


We are using the standard iCal app that came with the iPhones (iPhone 14&13).

We are using the standard mail program app that came with the iPhones


As for accounts, I have my personal account and three family accounts (general email. Bills, junk). My wife has the same, her personal and the three family accounts.


Each of use our personal account as the default.


No, I am not editing a previously shared event. It happens every time I add an event to my calendar, it also shows up on hers. By event, I mean anything that I add. I type in an appointment to meet with a friend and it shows up on hers. I type in my doctors appointment and she gets it.


this does not happen the other way around - I do not get anything that she manually enter into hers.


one odd thing I see is that on her phone, in her calendar app, it did have my email personal address (says “shared by Tim powers”). I have no idea how this came to be as I never shared anything. In any event, that calendar.


Neither of us have any one listed under

“delegate calendars” in the calendar app.


Another odd thing that I just noticed now that you got me digging, I do not have calendar enabled for the bills nor the junk emails (under settings, calendar). However The bills show up as shared in the calendar app. I will attach pics of this.


thanks for any help.


Whenever I add anything to my calendar on my iPhone it shows up on my wife’s iPhone

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