ICloud Not syncing from iCal from iPhone to Ipad and Macbook Air

If I'm reading your post correctly, events added to your iPhone calendar are not syncing to your other devices but events added to your other devices are syncing with each other, as well as your phone. I see that you've tried disabling calendar syncing with iCloud and reverted to syncing with iTunes, but I'm not sure if you went to Settings>iCloud on your phone, turned Calendars to Off, chose Delete from My iPhone when prompted, then after a minute or so turned Calendars back to On to sync back your iCloud calendars to your phone. If you haven't, I suggest you try this.

Also go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Default Calendar on your phone and make sure you have selected a calendar listed under your iCloud account as your default. If not, make this change, then add a new event on your phone and see if it syncs now.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "'homeshare' the phone". Are you talking about Home Sharing?

I also don't know what you mean by "how to get itunes to recognize the phone over iCloud". Can you explain further?

I have to run right now but I'll respond when I get back.

Ok, I'm just re-reading your post. First, home sharing doesn't use iCloud. It only uses your wifi network. It searches your network for other computers and iOS devices with home sharing enabled with the same Apple ID and connects them to the shared iTunes library/libraries. If home sharing is not working on your phone, you might try turning it off, then back on in settings. Also, be sure that you are signed into home sharing with the same Apple ID that you are using on your Mac and iPad. Finally, be sure that you are connected to the same router on your wifi network as the other devices. If you have a Guest account set up on your router, be sure that your devices are either all signed into the main account, or all signed into the Guest account. If they aren't connected to the same router in the same account, they will not discover each other using home sharing.

There are some additional home sharing troubleshooting steps you can look through here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972. If you continue to need help resolving this, suggest you post a question over in the home sharing forum here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/home_sharing?view=discussions.

Your iCloud calendar syncing issue is a separate issue. First, be sure you are not trying to sync calendars using home sharing. Home sharing only shares media from your iTunes library with your iOS devices (music, videos, etc.), not non-iTunes library data such as calendars and contacts. To share your iCloud calendar between your devices, you need to be syncing with the same iCloud account, and have Calendar syncing set to On (in Settings>iCloud on your iOS devices, and in System Preferences>iCloud on your Mac). Is that what you are doing?

autumn94 wrote:

I currently have itunes open, with the phone plugged into the computer, and the "info" tab on the iphone device says "Your calendars are being synced with your iphone over the air from icloud. Over-the-air syncings can be changed on your iPhone." And that section leaves me no option to change that setting

That setting is automatically set in iTunes when you have Calendars set to On in Settings>iCloud on your device, as you do. It would change if you were to turn this to Off on your device, then reconnect it to iTunes.

The "On My Mac" calendar (and possible the new "Calendar" as well), was created when you turned off iCloud calendar syncing and synced your calendar with your Mac instead. The important thing is to ensure that in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Default Calendar you have selected a calendar listed under your iCloud account name as your default as it is the only one that will sync with iCloud. If not, you will end up entering new events on one of calendars that does not sync with iCloud and such events will not appear on your other devices. If you haven't selected an iCloud calendar as your default, make this change, then enter a new event and see if it syncs to your calendar on icloud.com now. Do this on both your phone and your iPad.

Creating the iCloud email account that you don't use will have no impact on any of this.

There's nothing wrong with your settings. I wonder if you're having wifi connectivity issues. You might try unplugging your wireless router for 15 seconds, then plugging back in, then on your phone go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings, then rejoin your wifi again. Note: resetting network settings on your devices will erase passwords for previously joined networks. You might also try changing your router settings to use Google's public DNS (see https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using).

Jumping in on this conversation from a few weeks ago. I'm having the same problems with calendar syncing: enter info on phone, it doesn't sync anywhere else; enter info anywhere else, it syncs IMMEDIATELY on other devices - except in my case, it doesn't go to the phone at all. My phone, however, is 3GS, maybe getting to be too old?? It's aggravating because I've been syncing for YEARS, first with Mobile Me, then with iCloud as soon as it became available, so this is nothing new for me. And just within the last few weeks, these problems have cropped up. I've been wondering, as Autumn94 has wondered, if a software update has screwed something up? I've also been wondering, since randers4 has mentioned wifi connectivity, if my 2005 Apple Airport is also just becoming too old to be useful any more? I regularly (at least a couple of times a week) have to unplug and replug it to reboot the wifi; I've narrowed it down to that piece of equipment and not the Comcast modem that is the source of the problem. However - recognizing that I probably should update my wifi router and my phone - I still can't help but feel that the calendar issue is separate. Wondering if there are any new insights since this original post?

FYI - rebooted phone - all is well now.