Calendar app icon is displaying the wrong date

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Calendar app icon is displaying the wrong date

For some reason on my iPhone's homescreen the icon for the Calendar app has today started displaying the wrong date.

It should show today's date, Monday 6th but instead it reads Sunday 5th.

What confuses me is that the phone does know the date is Monday 6th as the lock screen shows it correctly and also when I actually load the Calendar app it starts on the right date. Also, when I load the multi task bar the Calendar app icon there is correct. See the attached photo, which shows the Calendar app on the home screen (faded, middle left) displaying yesterdays date Sunday 5th, while the app icon in the multi task bar is correct, Monday 6th.

Syncing the calendar with my iMac does not correct the error. Equally, turning the phone off and on again has not sorted it.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the fault? And more importantly how to correct it?

Thanks.

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 7:16 AM

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Answer 1

DaVBMan

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Jun 6, 2011 8:28 AM in response to simon.goodwin

Id suggest double tapping home button to bring up "open" apps. Then fully close the calendar app (tap and hold till wiggle then tap red x).

Then after that reboot phone (not turn off and on). To do so hold BOTH the HOME and LOCK buttons. DO NOT let go when it says slide to turn off, just keep holding. Keep holding until screen turns off then comes back up to the Apple Logo, then let go.

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Answer 2

Aug 10, 2011 9:04 AM in response to DaVBMan

Thanks for the suggestion DaVBMan, sadly it didn't work. The only thing that did work was to wait until midnight and it corrected itself. In the mind of the phone it lived a whole day twice and then skipped one completely in order to get back on track. Very odd and also I have since discovered it has happened to a few of my friends too.

It's not happened again so I have no idea what so ever what caused it. Fingers crossed it never recurs.

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