How do I find old events on my Calendar?

I have both Calvetica and Fantastical, and each are infinitely superior to the native calendar in countless ways. I also use Fantastical on my Mac, and it's great!

Calvetica can search your entire history. When in the Search screen, tap the gear to the left of the search field, and you can choose the range of your search.

Fantasical is pretty good. I have both that and Calvetica. But the way Fantastical leaves out dates with no events from the scrolling part of the screen makes me nuts, and there's no preference for that. Plus, in Calvetica its easier to choose and change reminder alarms, which is really important to me.

I actually use Fantastical for some calendars and Calvetica for others. I wish somebody would make a tabbed calendar app (for desktop too), so I could quickly and easily switch back and forth between various views.

Yes, Ligia, as far as I know Calvetica is your best option for full-calendar searching in iOS. Almost all calendar apps (including Calvetica) use the same calendar database as the native Calendar. There's no separate syncing. Calvetica will be getting its info from the same place.

Alana McD

Scroll up then click the day it was on. 😉

And if you don't know the date it was on? Or if it's more than a year old?

Heyitzmoni

I have fantastical and my calendars set to sync all events but I can't see any events beyond April even though all birthdays and past reminders show up. Any idea why it's doing this?

I assume you mean April 2013 — 13 months ago.

Can you see those events in other calendar apps? If not, connect your device and in iTunes > [Device name] click on [Info], scroll down to Calendars, and see if you have a check next to "Do not sync events older than [] days."

katharinesim

I can't believe that Apple can't facilitate old event searches. I used to be able to do this on my Palm Pilot years ago. I feel like I've gone back 10 years. Come on Apple, please sort out something that surely is quite basic, or allow some search options, search all, as suggested. Does anyone from Apple ever read these? Or do they just leave it to their users to try and sort out Apple problems as best they can!!

Many years ago Apple stopped caring about flexible usability. Apple's entire UX philosophy is now, "You'll be fine if you just do it our way and don't worry your pretty little head." If Apple thinks you don't need to find events older than a year, then they're not going to enable it. Period. Even if the ability to do so is 15-year-old technology.

Another example of this: In Mail, it's impossible to do an "unless/except" search — as in...

FIND all emails from joe@joe.com

EXCEPT where jane@jane.com was CCd

Of course, that's no possible in almost every mail client made anymore (this functionality seems to have died with Eudora).

And no, nobdy from Apple reads these forums. Or at least, they never participate.

I cannot duplicate the problem you describe in Fantastical for iOS. Caveat: I'm using iOS 6.1.6 (my iPod Touch can't upgrade to iOS 7).

My Fantastical for iOS shows events back as far as my calendar goes, and I can search events in the past as well. Just found one from 2009-06-04 via search.

Maybe something changed in the newest version for iOS 7? Contact Fantastical for help!

As for the problems your husband is having, you don't have to use iCloud. I don't. Has he contacted Apple or gone into an Apple Store to get help setting up a calendar that syncs with Outlook? I haven't used Outlook for years, so I can't offer much insight, but I know many cross-platform people who don't have this problem. 🙂