iCal won't sync from iPhone to Mac

Hello there,

Thanks for this information - I was wondering if there's an alternative as all the correct data is on my iPhone, so I would like to clear the icalendar data on my iMac and replace it with the iPhone calendar data.

Is that possible?

Thanks,

Linda

Thanks rorygilmore! I had this same issue with an older iMac (2009) and an iPad 2. iCal on the iMac wouldn't show the events that had been entered into the iPad 2. After not finding the Users folder on the iMac's HD, did a global search and found iSync app on the external drive where Snow Leopard is installed as a boot disk.

This is so whacky! I'm in OS X 10.8.5 on the iMac but the external drive's ( connected by USB cable to the iMac) Snow Leopard had to have its iSync app reset as you'd described to get iCal to sync up properly between 10.8.5 and the iPad 2, using iTunes.

Hey Apple! This is a close cousin to Windows running Office, where you can't eject a USB drive even though the documents were saved and closed, cuz Windows has its sticky fingers keeping that lane "open" to the USB drive, so it therefore thinks that if it's an open "lane" then it must be in use, so "drive still in use" shows up. Stupido!

Maybe I'm the stupid one here and there's a simpler answer than what's been accomplished, but the fix on my system was to go into the external drive and change the app - that's apparently not in use whatsoever - there. Problem solved here, by changing the oil on my car to fix the flat tire.

I was having this same problem even though I had both devices connected to the iCloud. I had connected my macbook air calendar to iCloud, but it didn't pull from my phone. I went in to the settings on my iPhone and down to iCloud. I toggled the calendar on and off from connecting to the iCloud. After about thirty seconds all of my events came up on my laptop.

I noticed this same problem after upgrading to OSX 10.8.5 and getting the iPhone SE with iOS 9.3.x. I started getting Calendar conflicts, and my iPhone events were not sync'ing to my computer. I don't use iCloud, and just want to keep my information on my computer, thank you very much. Anyway, before exporting all of my calendars in the process that rorygilmore posted, I decided to try something first. I found iSync by doing a global search, like someone else mentioned, it wasn't on my hard drive, but on an external. I opened it and Reset Sync History in Preferences. Then I performed a Sync in iTunes, and voila, it found hundreds of items that were needing to be modified. Almost 200 New Events and almost 600 were going to be Modified. Wow! I guess this problem had been happening for a while, but I hadn't noticed. So anyway, before trying anything, just Reset Sync History in Preferences of iSync, and that may be all you need to do. 🙂