Hi - since downloading ios26 last night, I’ve noticed that the calendar search facility no longer works on iPhone or iPad. It is not even working with new appointments entered since the update was installed. Has anyone else experienced this and can someone assist please. It is a function I use regularly. Thanks in advance.
iPhone 15
yes, I'm replying to my own post..... VIOLA!! I returned to the problem of the calendar search on my iPhone 16 plus, IOS 26.0.1: I went to settings, turned off search in the calendar app, backed up the phone, turned off the phone, restarted after about a minute, turned on the search in the calendar app, backed up the phone and the search works again, just as it's supposed to!! trust this helps someone.
26.2 works!!
took a little while to index everything so I thought it was still broken, but seems now to be working as before!
you never know why you’ve got til it’s gone eh?
Spent time on phone with Apple upper level support and she said Apple is aware of this problem as reports were coming in at that time on Wednesday when I called.
it has been turned over to engineers as she said so hopefully it will be fixed quickly.
Nope... search on my iPhone 16+ is up-to-date IOS 26.0.1. When I request a search it shows: no results. But if I press the small x in the search field, viola... it brings up the requested search: sometimes, maybe ½ the time. I've turned off/on the search request in settings but no help. The suggestions to click search and swiping down from the middle of the page doesn't work on my iPhone, maybe that's for an iPad or MacBook? Anyway, I've closed the calendar app/turned off my phone and still search doesn't give me a result. So far my MacBook Air M4 calendar works fine. Guess I'll have to wait longer and HOPE.
Downloaded developer update today and now calendar search facility works as it did before.
I have the same problem with IOS 18.6.2 on a 16 Pro. Can't search past events. The Spotlight search bar does find past events but search does not work in the Calendar app.
I finally downloaded Google Calendar because I can’t wait weeks for Apple to fix this search problem. I have too many VA appointments that I can’t afford to miss if I don’t check my calendar every day.
Thanks for posting this. Don’t update to 26.1 yet. If you haven’t already. My search was working just fine and now it isn’t. I don’t search every single day but my last update was 26.1. I’ve tried doing what you suggested and it’s not fixing my iPhone 16.
I waited until Apple issued 26.1. Before that iOS 18.7 and previous updates all allowed search to work in the calendar.
On my iPhone 15 with iOS 26.1 I cannot find where to select “All” calendars. I looked in “Settings/Apps/Calendar” and I also opened my calendar and selected the calendar icon in the lower right corner. I have checkmarks on all three iCloud items. No dice.
Dave_HH, how do I choose which calendars I want?
If so: on my MacBook Air M4: click on calendar, on the left side of the screen it should show the calendars options, to choose specific one/ones to activate you'll have them checked and uncheck the other ones.
If they are not showing you should see a calendar icon at the top left of the screen beside an open folder icon. Click on the calendar icon and all of your choices should appear on the left along with other and a small calendar at the bottom.
On my iPhone 16+ IOS 26.1 the calendar and folder icons are at the bottom of the calendar screen on the lower right. You'll click on the calendar icon and it will show which calendars you have active.
Trust this helps
I downloaded the Calsearch app and it works great! Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve got the same problem. I am a disabled vet and I need my calendar lists all my VA appointments. I make them as VA then whatever appointment is so I can or used to be able to just search VA and all my A appointments pop up.
I need to be able to use calendar to do this search.
I tried this. Prior to trying it absolutely nothing would come up with search, after trying it I type in one letter and it pops up three or four things. None of them are any later than 2018. So weird.
I put an appointment in yesterday that had the name Annie in it and I go to search for Annie and I get zilch. I hope they fix this soon. I take elderly people who can no longer drive to Dr appointments and searching every single day for their appointments among all the other personal things of my own is time-consuming and annoying.
Replying to my own comment to say that this problem was resolved for a while, but it looks like 26.1 is giving my iPhone 16 problems. I have tried turning search on and off. Restarting the phone. I’m not getting any results at all. I keep track of three different people’s doctors appointments and it is really important that this function works for me.
11/14/25: Sorry for the continued problems. I did update on my MacBook Air M4 to Tahoe 26.1 and my iPhone 16+ to IOS 26.1 and have verified on both devices that the calendar search is working for me. Hopefully each of you will get yours resolved as well.
I downloaded it via wifi yesterday, tried to find a calendar entry today and…nothing. Really annoying as it’s a pretty regularly used function for me, tried toggling everything, hard reset, still the same. Plus autocorrect has gone mental again & my onscreen keyboard seem all over the place too
Calendar search facility no longer working since ios 26 upgrade
