Q: How do I find old events on my Calendar?
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Apr 11, 2014 10:43 PMby 100 Watt Walrus,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.
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May 10, 2014 6:43 AMby 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!!
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May 10, 2014 9:32 AMby katharinesim,But, unless I'm missing something, I can't scroll up further than about a year! So no good for events older than this. Was trying to find out the last time I attended a course. Couldn't on iphone because it was in 2010. So had to wait till I got back home then easy search on the PC! As I said, I could have done this on my old Palm Pilot 10 years ago.
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May 10, 2014 3:23 PMby 100 Watt Walrus,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?
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."
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.
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May 11, 2014 6:32 AMby katharinesim,No, I don't have a check next to "do not sync events older than x days" in iTunes. It does look like you just can't search, or have list views for older items.
Still my search problems pale into insignificance compared to my husband, who having been a PC user for over 20 years, has just bought a mac, but is thinking of ditching it because he then has to use iCloud, which won't sync with the Outlook client. He doesn't have any useable calendar at all now, rather than just having a search problem!
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May 11, 2014 1:48 PMby 100 Watt Walrus,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.
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Jun 24, 2014 10:15 PMby Ligia Kogos,I bought Calvetica and Fantastical 2 , that searches 25 years past, but Week Cal is the only one that goes very far behind in the past! . Week Cal can search and view unlimited events in the past, even 100 years ago, or more, if you like to add on your calendar, historic events or biografic data of your family, for example. You can search for key words that may be in the titlle, or notes and allows changes in past events that sync immediately with your IPhone calendar and ICloud . It gives the option to choose the range of uour search . It may take minutes to find the results depending on the amount of events and number of years to search, but works perfectly!
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Jan 20, 2016 8:09 AMby AutoZuLaut,Wow, sometimes Apple leaves me speechless. Just ran into this "bug" and found out that there is no search option for past events in Calendar.app in OS X 10.11.3 (2016).
I don't even know what to say. And I really wonder what apple was thinking when forgetting about this feature. PR probably was more important? This is ridiculous.
So please, if you are also affected by this missing feature, please head to http://www.apple.com/feedback/calendar.html and give some feedback to apple, so that they become aware that essential functionality in calendar.app was completely forgotten.
WORKAROUND: Go to a date in the past (e.g. 2007) then any event later than that will show in the search results. I guess that way, apple wants to always only show "the relevant" (TM) results. Still think this is pretty stupid behavior.
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Apr 15, 2016 2:02 PMby Skelekatie,Are you talking about on the iPhone? There is no "Preferences" or "Accounts Tab" that I can find.
I don't have this same problem on my Macbook. I can search my entire calendar since the beginning. However, my Mac is about 8 years old and the OS is Lion (can't upgrade to the newest) so that may be why.
I didn't read every post in this feed so maybe you are referring to something else.
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May 27, 2016 1:29 PMby bobbyfromsandiego,The workaround you have suggested would be acceptable, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I can go to past dates, but searches still display results straddling the current date. I'm running iOS 9 on iPhone 5s. I guess you're running OS X 10, and that works for you?
