iPhone Calendar Search not working iOS 17.0.2

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?

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

You genius! I've just upgraded to a new iPhone 15 Pro Max iOS 17.4.1. Search in Calendar not working. So many complex fix suggestions on the web- and the Siri and Search fixed the problem, - thank you sooo much! An easy fix, but not intuitive at all, don't know how you discovered it !!!

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

this issue carried through to ios 17.4.1 for me, and apple support did not know a resolve despite escalating examples to their engineering team. Ipad os worked perfectly as expected vs iOS.

This suggestion resolved the issue, thanks.

Have you tried logging into iCloud...if you sync contacts with iCloud? Or, do you sync contacts with Outlook on your computer? Check if your contacts are in Outlook. If so, you should be able to recover by

1. Opening iTunes
2. Plugging your iPhone in
3. Clicking the iPhone icon at the top near the left side
4. Click Info & make sure that you sync contacts with Outlook.

P.S. To be on the safe side, make sure you backup your Outlook.pst file before syncing.

I really appreciate your prompt reply and outlining instructions. However, when I follow these steps I can't see the option to select to "sync with Outlook". I am not entirely sure. And if my phone has backed up, I'm guessing I won't be able to do a data recovery as it will back up to when I lost my contacts. I even manually added people into my contacts from text messages I received but when I pull those contacts in my contact folder on my phone - it shows the search with nothing. Very strange.

I'll post this again, since it hasn't shown up. Do you sync your iPhone contacts with iCloud or with Outlook? If iCloud, sign into iCloud. You'll see this in the upper right corner.Click on the dots & you'll see a choice including contacts. Click on it & see if it's there.

If you use Outlook, open iTunes, plug your iPhone into the computer. You'll see an icon for the iPhone in the top row, near the left sideclick on it, then click on info. You should see this:

and after clicking Info, this:

I sync my calendars, not my contacts, but if you sync contacts with Outlook, you may be able to recover it.

I recently downloaded iOS 17.5 and began having search issues with my Calendar app .. I followed your instructions but I didn't delete the info .. I waited one minute as suggested & turned it back on .. voila! it all was working perfectly again ..

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions. I tried the fix which doesn’t involve deleting your calendar and the search found things from 10 years ago, but nothing recent. Feel too nervous to delete the calendar as my work and whole life are on it!

many thanks in advance

Has anybody come across anything else that works? I’ve tried all these suggestions and none of them have worked. Can’t get anything to come up in search after 2019! Is becoming a nightmare to organise stuff. Madness that these comments started in October 23 and the problem is still persisting, Apple should have fixed this by now.

Thank you!! You mentioned 2 key points others didn’t. Wait a minute to turn back on and it can take a while for things to fully reload. Only knowing those 2 steps was I able to successfully make the update. Thanks very much!

Hi, I just got an iPhone 15 Friday and found the same problem. I tried what you suggested but it worked only partially. The search was restored for a segment of time 10 years ago. No thing in between. I tried the other two approaches mentioned in this thread but your solution was better and simpler.

Please somebody clearly outline what is the correct way to solve this issue. Thank you

Thanks for this. Unfortunately it’s still

not working for me and I can’t get anything post 2019 to show in the search. So frustrating 😫 if anyone knows of any other tips that have worked it would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼