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XyritZz Author

Level 1

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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

192 replies

racey43

Level 1

14 points

Jan 28, 2013 2:34 PM in response to Zorglub-Paris

not if you've got an iPad 1

McPAED

Level 1

70 points

Jan 29, 2013 11:38 AM in response to XyritZz

Hello,

This bug is fixed in iOS 6.1 !

Regards.

Jan 29, 2013 2:58 PM in response to XyritZz

Any all day events on 1st April - change to a timed event. It's an issue related to coding for daylight saving.

Jan 30, 2013 1:05 AM in response to Andrewjohnstalker

Problem is deff fixed in iOS 6.1! 🙂 But only if you can upgrade, otherwise delete all day events or UK calendar!

rvrman21

Level 1

5 points

Jan 30, 2013 1:21 AM in response to valeska645

This discussion has been going for months, I also can confirm that it is fexed (iPad3), BUT IT WOULD OF BEEN NICE IF IT WAS NOTED ON THE RELEASE NOTES:::: of course Apple would not want to confirm this bug----------> a poor show from what seems toi be decling service across the brand.

SueP56

Level 1

0 points

Feb 2, 2013 12:47 AM in response to XyritZz

I have the same problem on my original ipad. Deleteing events on April 1 has sorted it out. Thanks so much

Feb 2, 2013 1:43 AM in response to XyritZz

The problem got solved since OS 6.1, so please update your OS

Mar 4, 2013 4:35 AM in response to XyritZz

Greetings from Girona, Catalonia, Spain!,

Same issue in my original Ipad with IOS 5.1.1

I can't update to IOS 6.1.x. because Apple's policies.

I'm very disappointed!

Thanks for your understanding!,

Josep

bobwhi

Level 1

0 points

Mar 4, 2013 2:05 PM in response to Zorglub-Paris

It is annoying but just delete any all day events on first April and it goes back to working (this includes holiday notifications)

Mar 7, 2013 4:33 AM in response to Zorglub-Paris

I found the only thing that worked - and I tried deleting things from March 31st etc - was to untick uk holidays on both the ipad and the ical on my mac. Then it stopped crashing. Nothing else worked.

Mar 16, 2013 6:08 AM in response to XyritZz

Only had this problem after subscribing to iCal UK Holidays on my iPad 1. Subcribing to iCal US Holidays and disabling UK Holidays via Settings.. Mail etc allowed US holidays to display. At leasta partwork around.

PhilipHD

Level 1

4 points

Apr 11, 2013 8:11 AM in response to XyritZz

I had the same problem and took off the alert from all April items crossing back to March 2013. I also removed any all day items from 1st April. Problem was solved. Good luck.

iCal on iPad 2 crashes when selecting March 2013