How do I find old events on my Calendar?

Just ran into the iPhone calendar search limitation. I, like others, I need to search for old events. I also have a need to search for future events more than a year away. I had thought it would make sense to save magazine expiration dates in my iPhone calendar (some expire even 3 years in the future). And, then when I get a "renew" notice, I had thought I could search to check the actual expiration date, but no, there also seems to be a 1 year search limit for future events. I am aware that I could keep track of future events in a different way; however, the calendar seemed appropriate. If I go to my computer and log into iCloud the search works for past and future as expected; however, I almost never have the computer with me. I guess Apple considers these limitations a feature, however.

Ligia Kogos, thank you so much for recommending Week Cal! I too need to go back and forth on my calendar for work. My first Palm Pilot from way back searched the native calendar completely. When I switched to my first iPhone, I was shocked that apple didn't include this function. I posted to apple a few times about this and kept hoping it would turn up in an update. I finally started searching here and tried a couple calendar apps then saw your post. Week Cal is an absolute winner. I was afraid it wouldn't sync with my work calendar but as soon as I set it up, BOOM. There are my appointments! Custom set-ups and very easy to work with. Looks like apple should've hired these guys!

Thanks again!

DueBaci, what iOS are you running?

I'm still on iOS 10.3.3 and that doesn't work. The search function on the i-device inside Calendar remains restricted to one year! The old calendar entries are there, it just doesn't find them!

Sync All Events -- combined with iTunes replace events on this i-deivce with those on the Mac -- brings over all the events, they just can't be searched for!

Has this changed in iOS 11?

Did you try to increase the number of days in info pane/Calendars/ -> don't sync events older the xxxx days?

Compare your calendar on your computer and ipod, the one on the computer will still have all events, that are older than the number of days that is selected in the info pane/calendar section.

Deselecting the day option should sync all events ever mentioned on your computer's calendar to your ipod.

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I just removed the selection of the days, synced after that and now I have all the events from "way way back when" on my phone as well. So, it's possible without any other apps.

have u tried using the left arrow on the ipod calendar?

Correct, the events are there, but the search function does not seem to cover events older than one year.
Since this seems so important to you to have this feature, did you already tell Apple about it? Apple - iPhone - Feedback

Let's wait and see what iOS5 can do about that.

100 Watt Walrus wrote:

... "Don't worry your pretty little head about that. If we didn't include it, you don't really need it."

Which is kind of true, at least for me, I can't remember when I used spotlight to search for entries older than one year.

But I might have workaround. I just tried to find events older than a year using iCal on my Mac, and I had no problem finding what I was looking for.

So maybe this would be a solution until we know more about iOS5.

when u open the calendar al the bottom u will see tabs with today, list, day, month click on month and at the top next to the month ur on u should see arrows for left and right, click the left tab to go back months to where u have added events