subscribed calendars added on mac, not updating correctly on iphone

I'm having this exact same issue since upgrading to iOS 8. All my subscribed calendars refresh fine on my Macbook. However, I never see any updates or new events on my phone for the exact same subscribed calendar. The calendar is there, and i try using the pulldown to refresh, however, nothing. The only way I have been able to get the calendar to refresh is to hardboot my phone. This is is TeamSnap subscribed calendars, btw, but it appears this affects all subscribed calendars, not just ones from a particular source.

Same issue here, wanted to chime in. Tried everything... removing & re-adding iCloud account. Signing in / signing out. Resetting phone. Unsubscribe / resubscribe from calendar. Repair permissions. Etc. Calendars update fine in iCal, and upon initially adding to iPhone they do display correct information but do not reflect changes on phone going forward.

iPhone6, iOS 8.1.3

Apple please fix this! 😠

Same issue here. My wife and I subscribe to each other's calendars on read only basis. We both have iPhones, iPads and MBPs. The MBPs work OK (sometimes iCloud completely fails, but most of the time it is OK). The iOS devices are pretty much useless as we have to ask each other if the events are still present in each other's calendars, or if there may be something in the calendar which we are not seeing.

I cannot understand how this does not work in version 8 (EIGHT) of the iOS. Apple are seemingly poor at any cloud based tools. Please improve this functionality Apple.

I just wanted to add to this thread that I am experiencing the same problem. I appreciate the listing of the temporary work around, but I agree, this can be the intended behavior. I am running iPhone6 with iOS 8.2 and a MBP 13-inch Late 2013 running 10.10.2.

Apple please fix this!

I am having the same problem. The less than desirable work around is to go into Settings/iCloud, the click on your Apple ID. Once you type your password, all you subscribed calendars will update. The other work around is to power cycle your device. This is only a problem on IOS devices. Mac updates fine with no workaround. The problem seemed to start after upgrading to iCloud Drive.

Same here. I mostly use iCloud.com for the calendar, but it's not syncing to my iPhone 6 (iOS 8). Calendar alerts don't seem to work either. iCloud.com seems to be fine, but the only solution I have found is to delete the whole calendar off the iPhone, then reload the entire calendar. Refreshing the calendar doesn't work. Very frustrating. This seemed to start with iOS 8.

Same problem here. iPhone 5S, iOS 8, OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Subscribed calendar from tripit.com. Updates had always worked on OS X, but stopped working on iOS.

Power down and up of phone didn't work.

What did work:

On OS X, in the Calendar app. . .

Click on the "Calendars" rectangle at the top until you get the left panel to show the list of calendars you use and subscribe to.

Control click on the problematic subscribed calendar name way on the left.

Click "Get Info"

Change "auto-refresh" to a more frequent interval.

Not sure why, but it seems to be by design that iCloud does not sync Subscribed Calendars. I did read this somewhere within the Apple Support Web Site to do with this issue. However, if the Subscribed Calendar is web based then simply subscribing to the Calendar on each device (not trying to do so via iCloud) completely solves the issue. When setting up the Subscribed Calendar on your Mac, just make sure that you select 'On my Mac' as the location (not iCloud). On your iPhone or iPad simply subscribe to the Calendar as already detailed in this discussion earlier and it should work like a charm, with virtually no delay as each device.....Mac, iPhone and/or iPad is updating the Subscribed Calendar directly (not relying on iCloud). Works for me each and every time so I hope it does for you also.

This worked for me; it never occurred to me that "refresh" in this context meant refreshing "out" to my devices, as opposed to just refreshing the calendar on my computer. Weird.