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iCal on iPad 2 crashes when selecting March 2013

Hi,


I have got a very strange problem with iCal on my iPad 2 Wi-Fi. When selecting March 2013 it instantly crashes iCal, after which I am returned to the springboard. When relaunching iCal it starts with either February 2013 or April 2013 selected. The crashing does not occur in 2012 or 2014, so March 2013 is the only occurance of the crashing found so far.


What have I tried to do to solve the problem:

  • Restart iPad.
  • Force Quit iCal and all other applications.
  • Restart iPad again.


Problem still occured.


Disable Calendar syncing from my Google Account.


Problem was gone, iCal was completely empty and working fine.


Enable Calendar syncing, but uncheck all calendars in iCal resulting in empty calendar rendered on screen.


Problem still gone.


Enabling a single calendar.


Crashing occured again.


My conclusion was that one of my appointments in Google Calendar must contain something that was making iCal crash. However, of the 5 calendars I am syncing with the iPad none of them could be shown without iCal crashing in March 2013. Even public calendars I am subscribed to like official holidays make iCal crash. If something is indeed wrong with an appointment, I would have expected to be able to display the other 4 calendars without problems.


I am syncing the exact same calendars with my iPhone 4 and my iMac, and on both devices no crashing occurs.


Is there anything I can do to extract some more information from my iPad to find out exactly why iCal is crashing?

iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 11, 2012 12:27 AM

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Jan 17, 2013 11:29 AM in response to XyritZz

Hi Apple,


Same problem here. Come on Apple it getting a little embarrassing for you guys. Please find a solution/fix for this not so little problem and also please recognise all these supportive users, that spend time on your supportsite to post this problem and how they tried in vain to fix it them selves. It's really time to step up on this one. You are big boys, you should have done this a long time ago.


Sincerely

M. Christensen

Denmark

Jan 21, 2013 6:01 AM in response to jurap

Apple support tell me that the problem is known, their engineers are working on it and the temporary solution is to deselect the uk holiday calendar, and by implication any other calendar where events on April 1st are all day, and to change any all day events on April 1st on your own calendars to say 0100 to 2300.

It occurs that people might have several day events stretching over 31st March and 1st April which might also need amending.

Conspiracy paranoids might think the original programmer thought, ahah it's April Fools Day in 2013, but I guess it's more likely to be an unintended consequence of the 31st not having enough hours for a 24 hr all day event.

Jan 21, 2013 12:29 PM in response to XyritZz

So this is the Apple experience that Steve Job's wanted us to enjoy. I have been with Apple since the IIE and bought most of their products over that time, except the Lisa. The whole Apple experience in particular time and date has become a joke with little effort made to resolve the issues. We are customers and our supplier frankly could not give a **** about us. Apple has become arrogant and needs to reflect upon the dark days it came through as it is not inconceivable that it will join the ranks of HP, Nokia and Blackberry.

Jan 24, 2013 3:41 AM in response to XyritZz

Is it possible that the World's largest company can only deliver the goodies when the Boss was alive? It' inconceivable that the mindset in Cupertino was vested in just one man, but he delivered and the replacements aren't.

This problem is resolvable, but for some reason the new generation at Apple have failed to grasp that customers make you what you are, not the size of the balance sheet. Enough people have complained about this for long enough and are still complaining.

My business was on the cusp of migrating to Apple because we all love the iPhone and iPad....we have Mac Books too, but my business sense tells me that if things like this can't be resolved then the Apple bubble may be about to burst. So, no Apple migration for us (yet).

The loss of March in our Calendars is pathetic. That it has not been fixed in over a year of being reported here is even more pathetic. Empires need protecting, Apple would do well to understand that.

Jan 24, 2013 5:54 AM in response to iOnTheFuture

This self-fix works for me!

I checked out a number of other forums and some of the suggested fixes were mind-glowingly complex, however, for me the simplest, and which seems to have worked, is to delete any 'All Day' appointments for 1 April.

Others have suggested that anything which includes 1 April as an all day activity, including multi-day events, e.g 30 Mar - 2 Apr has the same effect. This seems to work.

Why haven't Apple fixed this?

Share price sentiment (down 30% from the high) suggests analysts are not happy with Apple either.....beware the Tesco effect, your customers are important and are all you've got.

Jan 26, 2013 1:03 AM in response to valeska645

I know that deleting UK holidays will solve the problem. This is an unsatisfactory solution, though, if you want to see UK holidays on your calandar as I do. This the reason I added them.

The point is that the product does not work satisfactorily and Apple seems to be making no effort to fix it.

They are obviously happy to release sub-standard products which are not fit for purpose.

Iphones are no longer market leaders, the iPad mini has not been particularly successful and there does appear to be any exciting new devopments in the pipeline.

It's no surprise that their share price is dropping.

iCal on iPad 2 crashes when selecting March 2013

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