Sync iCal with iCloud Calendar

I got my contacts to work by simply turning the cloud off, and then back on again. From Systems Preference>iCloud, turn address book off. It will ask if you want to keep or delete contacts, I think I said keep. It took a while--I have almost 3,000, but once it killed it, I turned it back on. Once again it took a while but when it came back up, it appears now to be working correctly. iCal is a lttle different story. I turned that off and then on. When it came up it said it was reconstructing (or something like that) my calendars, and ran FOREVER. I've ended up force quitting it three or four times now because it just runs and runs, hextupling all my calendar entries, like it's caught in an infinite loop. Gotta figure that one out.

Wow! Is all of that necessary? It was so easy to set up the Mobile Me account and have everything synced. This is very disappointing, but I miss having all my devices synced and at the moment, iCloud isn't doing it. Guess I'll have to go through all this rigamarole. 😟

Its really not a lot of rigmarole, just turn icloud off, and then on. The computer does the rest. It IS awesome after you get it working. I have an iphone, and ipad, a laptop, and a desktop. If I makema change in any one of them, it is reflected in all four within seconds. Make sure you've run "software update" recently, too.

I subscribe to my TripIt calendar. It syncs fine in iCal on my MBP (Mac OS X 10.7.2), but it doesn't stay in sync on my iPhone or iPad. If I restart my calendar syncing in System Preferences > iCloud, it will sync everything, but then subsequent changes at TripIt aren't sync'd with my iOS devices. The only syncing occurs when I restart.

I don't claim to be an expert. My more common problem is having multiples of Tripit events show up on my calendars, which I attribute to subscribing to tripit on my iphone, ipad, and mbp, then having them all duplicate in the sky and come back as multiples on my devices. I am trying to just "subscribe" to tripit web calendar itself through my mbp, then access all that data through the cloud from the other devices.

You ought to make sure that on your ipad and iphone, on the "calendars" display pane, that your tripit calendar is checked. If not, "check" it. And maybe make sure in your ipad and iphone "settings">"mail, contacts, calendars", make sure "push" is on, or "fetch" is set to some short interval.

Hi,

I am going totally nuts trying to have icloud work. So here's the setting if anyone can help I'd be grateful:

I have an iphone and a macbook. I have two emails address one being gmail. I don't want to use icloud for mails because the synchronization already works independtly from icloud BUT I can't seem to get iCal right. On icloud.com and my macbook it is the same calendar but it doesn't merge/update with the one on my iphone. I have added things on my iphone ical but it doesn't appear on the macbook ical nor icloud ical.

Thank you for helping out !

Alexandra

First, make sure on the settings on your iphone are correct. From the main screen on your iPhone calendar, touch the upper left <Calendars> button. Make sure "All iCloud" is check marked (to the right of the "all iCloud" text. If it is not, touch it to activate the check mark. Touch <done> in the upper right hand corner. That may help.

If it does not, go to <settings> app on your iPhone. Make sure the "Account" field has the same name and login information that you are using on your macbook. Touch the "account" field, and type your password into the <password> field. Touch <done> in the upper right corner of the screen.

Make sure "Calendar" is turned on with the slide "on/off" button, and "contacts", "reminders", while you are at it. Touch settings to return. Hopefully iCloud is now working.

If not, go back into <settings> <iCloud>, and turn <iCloud> off and then back on.

First of all, thank you for such a rapid answer.

The icloud is my Apple ID as usual and password but I had to create an email address @me.com. I guess this is correct.

The rest is ok too.

Do I need to plug my iphone now in a power source and see what it does ? Is there a distance to respect ?

you should not have to plug in the iphone, or respect any "distance". If you don't see your MBP calendar entries on the iPhone, I'd try turning off iCloud on your phone, From the Settings app, move the Calendar's on/off slide to off. It will ask if you want to delete your calendars on your iphone. I'd try to "keep on my iphone". then go back into settings and turn iCloud back on, by pushing the on/off slide to on.

Yeah !!!!! it just worked !!! finally !!!!! Thank you a zillion !!!!!!!

glad I could help. I was thinking I had to tell you you had exhausted my pea brain, and had to go elsewhere. It is REALLY nice to have that working right. Best of luck to you!

From MaxGuru

"I had this issue on my iMac and fixed it by:

1. Import my calendars into iCal from my backup .ics files

2. Go to System Preferences>iCloud and deleted my iCloud account

3. Added my iCloud account back in the iCloud Prefs pane

4. Select Merge when asked what to do with calendars

5. Calendars will now be back on iCal and in the iCloud"

This is a lot easier than the other solution and it worked for me but I didn't have a previous mobile me account

Actually, the simplest way to go would be to add each tripit trip individually to your iCal calendar thus avoiding duplicates, etc. if you sync with iCloud calendar, it will be there. Can't really add the trips on the iOS devices