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ios 5 lost calendar events

Just upgraded my iPhone 4 to ios 5. Lots of WiFi problems but REAL problem is that all of my Calendar events have become invisible. I know that they are still there because my phone alerted me to a doctor's appt today but there is nothing in the fields. Also, I entered a repeating event that I do every week and I got a message that I was modifying an existing event. But ALL dates are blank. ALL calendars are blank. I synced with my MacBook Pro and now THAT calendar is completely blank. Also my iCloud calendar is blank-- but I suspect that they are ALL there but not showing. Now what??

iPhone 4, iOS 5, 32meg

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 6:53 PM

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Oct 22, 2011 10:27 AM in response to Munchiniwa2

Just upgraded iPhone 3GS to iOS5 & have same scary issue of disappearing calendar events, but reminders come through perfectly despite being invisible! It's a relief to know they still exist & aren't really lost.


Can you explain how to "turn on calendars" in iCloud please? If that resolves this....?!


(I'm already subscribed to Mobile Me which is how my calendars have synced perfectly up to now, FYI)


Thanks!

Oct 23, 2011 8:15 AM in response to majafromtoronto

I wish!

The iCloud Calendars button was on already on my iphone. That is all 😐


Having backed up the (correct, full) iCal calendar on my Mac Pro (using "export"), I then synced that with my iphone calendar via iTunes (with the iCloud calendar button set to "off", obv). Everything then appeared on my iPhone calendar correctly - hurrah!


Until I turned the iCloud Calendar button back "on" on my iPhone, and most events were lost again.


I know the correct calendar is fully stored in iCloud as all events are visible (together with lots of duplicates) on the icloud.com calendar. But that calendar, for some reason, won't sync with my iphone calendar via iCloud.


Any ideas? Please?

Oct 26, 2011 12:33 PM in response to Munchiniwa2

I tried turning on iCloud and it did nothing. I also upgraded iOS5 like when it first came out so like two weeks ago and all of a sudden now it chooses to take my calendar events away. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know. Mine are still in my ipod, but missing from the iPhone 4.


Also does anyone know what I'm supposed to have checked in iTunes? I am not up on this stuff at all. Is calendars supposed to be checked?


Thanks,


Tracee

Nov 4, 2011 6:23 AM in response to jessiefrommooned ponds

I think there are TWO issues here


1. The already resolved issue:


This is when everything appears "lost" on the calendar on iPhones when iOS5 is first installed. This includes the + button (to add new events)


This is resolved (thanks to majafromtoronto) by simply turning on calendars in iCloud in the iPhone's settings.


2. The other issue:


After upgrading to iOS5 and iCloud, the calendar on the iPhone no longer shows lots of previously entered iCal "events".

But these are only hidden, not lost, as they appear (sometimes repeatedly!) on the iCloud calendar on the web (iCloud.com/#calendar) and on iCal on any linked Mac running Lion. Although these events no longer appear on the iPhone running iOS5, strangely alarm reminders for these hidden events still work.


As far as I can see this is the problem that Munchiniwa2, Firehouse Design and jessiefrommoonedponds have.


Having tried all the obvious things, (unlinking the iPhone calendar from iCloud then turning it back on again, syncing the iPhone calendar via iTunes - see above) I've just stumbled on the solution:


On iPhone go to "settings" then "mail, contacts, calendars" (NOT iCloud!). Scroll down to Calendars. 2nd item is "Sync" which for some unknown reason was set to "events 1 month back". Change to "All Events" All your events will reappear and will be well in the world again.


Or at least until you discover that iCloud has stopped syncing and really lost half your Address Book 😮😠😮😟

Nov 22, 2011 5:10 PM in response to jessiefrommooned ponds

I was having the same problem, wich was that all my calendars dissapered suddenly. My solution was :

Itunes(plug in iphone)>select your iphone>go to INFO>look for SYNC ICAL CALENDARS has to be check √

>uncheck the box that says DO NOT SYNC EVENT OLDER THAN ..... DAYS.

then click apply and wait for your iphone to sync again.

worked for me.

Dec 4, 2011 9:43 AM in response to Munchiniwa2

I have a slightly different, but possibly related problem. In the Month View and the Day View under iOS 5 all of the entries appear correct. However, in the List View a major problem appears. All of the entries appear shifted one day earlier. So, for example, an event X which appears (correctly) to occur on day 2 in the Month and Day views, appears to occur (incorrectly) on day 1 in the list view. I have tried individually removing the different calanders (work, home, exchange, etc.) and the problem persists. I have also tried all of the suggestions posted in this thread, all to no avail. I hope that someone can help with this.

ios 5 lost calendar events

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