iPhone Calendar Search not working iOS 17.0.2

Hi Get Jacked thank you kindly for your prompt reply. My icloud storage has been maxed out for over a 1 year so I'm concerned that my "events" are saved to my phone and not the cloud and deleting will see me lose them all. My phone has iOS17 and was updated a few days ago but it is only since last night that the search function has stopped working. If you have any suggestions on a fix/ work around I would love to hear, thanks mate. Cheers - Stu :)

this has been a new and extremely frustrating issue for me the last few software updates!! The recommended steps to fix the issue by people on here have worked, however, it will only reloaded past events back to 2020 at the latest. This went on for months until my search function in the calendar stopped working again recently. I did the same steps and I’m now able to see events going back to 2016 thankfully!

I have been having this problem for over a year and this is the first advice that worked for me. Hallelujah! I can finally see all of my appointments over the past year that I could not find through calendar search unless I manually checked every day in the calendar year. Thank you!

Great job with the solution. It worked for me but my problem was slightly different, so I figured I’d call it out. My search feature was working on my local calendar, but it was not picking up on a calendar shared with me. This also fixed that search issue.

This is the only method that worked for me, on an iPhone 15 with IOS 17.2.1.

All methods mentioned above did not bring back displaying past events matching the search criteria.

Only this method allowed me to see past events that match the search criteria.

This worked to correct the search problem but resulted in no longer having the calendars which were shared with me. I waited a few hours. I looked again and ‘Use on this phone’ was now off. I toggled it to be on, and before it would go to the on status it asked ‘what would you like to do with existing local calendars?’ And gives one option ‘merge’. All I want to do is have iCloud back on. The word ‘merge’ is concerning. Any advice? Thanks!

The solution was to toggle the iCloud calendar “use on this phone” back to on again. It then asks if you want to merge your local existing calendars. You need to allow that. Thanks for the help everyone!

This only works if you are backing up your data to the iCloud. Be very careful about deleting the data if this is not the case! The fix mentioned above about turning on and off Siri and search worked for me without having to delete my data.

Thank you! *Some* of my events were searchable, but nothing in the future from my Google calendar. Although, I could tell you every shift I worked 2019-2022 - not super helpful. This fix worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing!

My iCloud calendar works fine. However 1 out of my 3 gmail account appointments won’t come up. Unfortunately, this is the one that all my important appointments are. Any invite I accepted that was sent to that calendar isn’t coming up. I have issues accidentally double booking myself because of this issue. None of the suggestions below have worked. Any advice?

Thank you ARPU99

”…Also try this - open your calendar app. At the bottom, tap Calendars. Uncheck all Calendars. Tap Done. Do a hard restart of your iPhone. Go back to Calendars and check them back on. …”

Your suggestion worked for me 👍👏👍👏

Am so glad to have the search facility back on my Calendar on my iPad… it was driving me nuts!

You do NOT have to delete your calendar to make the search function work again. Just turn off calendar in iCloud, keep data on phone, restart phone and turn calendar back on on iCloud and then select ”merge “ for the data - search now works and your calendar events are still there.

Sadly this didn’t work for my iPhone Gmail calendar entries.

I did the thing below: settings-mail-choose my Gmail account… then toggle calendar off, wait a minute, toggle back on. The entries reappeared and show up in search now!!!

Hello,

Since you were able to rectify your iPhone calendar issue, would you be willing to help me resolve mine?

I just bought an iPhone 14 Pro and I can’t risk deleting my calendar either, but I’m not sure what some of what some of the instructions Osiris gave even means. Like, I cannot even find the “use on this phone” tab.

This is maddening! We shouldn’t have these issues.

Thanks,

Kellie

Hello,

I just saw where you were able to solve your calendar search issue. Could you PLEASE explain to me how you were able to do that? I’m a new iPhone user, so I need it explained like a 5 year old.

Thanks