iCloud Calendars Changing Colors

I created 2 new custom agendas (work and private), transferred the affected data from the default calendars. Couldn't wait any longer.

Just found this entry on page 1 of another thread...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5429648

" I spoke with Apple. Apparently they are in the process of upgrading the Calendar feature at this moment. They say that the problems we are facing will be gone within a week, as the upgrade is fully implemented..."

Just adding my desire to find a solution to this problem. Thanks to all for helping me see I'm not crazy.

JK

Hey, it's not only the colours that change. If I try to alter the order of my calendars in the calendar list they move back to their original places after a few moments. Does anyone else have this problem?

I gave up on waiting for Apple to address this issue and decided to try to fix it myself. So far - approximately 5 hours since making the changes - everything seems to be completely back to normal and stable.

In brief, I exported each of my problem calendars, created new calendars with the colors that I want them to be, and imported the entries back into the new calendars.

If you'd like to give this a try yourself, take the following steps for each of your misbehaving calendars:

1. Export the calendar to a file (e.g., Personal.ics, with "Personal" being the name of the calendar exported).

2. Create a new calendar with a temporary name (e.g., "Personal 2") and assign it a color.

3. Import the calendar entries from the original calendar into the new calendar.

4. After importing, you'll have duplicate entries from the original calendar. Leave them alone for the moment.

5. Allow iCloud time to sync the new entries. Depending on how many entries you have in your calendar, it may take a little while (one of mine took over 20 minutes for a few thousand entries).

6. After iCloud has finished its sync, delete the original calendar in order to remove the duplicate entries.

7. If desired, rename the new calendar to the name you used on the original calendar.

Like I said, this seems to have worked for me, so hopefully it will for you, too. It's a little disheartening and concerning that Apple couldn't address this on its own last week.

Only problem with that is that when you are about to delete the original calendar, iCloud reminds you that all invites you accepted will be sent back to the originator marked as "declined."

I decided against out due to that bit.

Yes HighlyHonoured, I have also verified that the order of the calendars are also affected

@stentor007

What if you merely unchecked the original calendars? That way the duplicates won't show up but the calendars themselves should remain unaffected.

@heinzy60 - Merely unchecking the original calendar will hide it, however I was getting two alarms for each event - the one in the original and the one in the new - until I deleted the original calendar.

@stentor007 - Fair point. I don't have any meeting invitations in my calendars, so I did not encounter that issue.

I created 9 new calendars, exported, imported, colour coded eveything, shared them all only have all the new Cals change back to black! ***. I heard it will be fixed by Apple in a week?

This just happened to me — my calendars are color-coded and I use the same colors across all devices/platforms AS WELL AS my paper files - this is a huge inconvenience and very annoying. I switched the colors back and it's happened again. IS APPLE GOING TO FIX??????

Hi,

Same thing happening here. Tried iPad/iPhone/Mac iCal to no avail.

When trying to change colors in iCloud.com, they revert back inmediately.

Hope Apple gets this fixed soon.

Cheers.

I used to have the same problem many months ago and it got rectified somehow. However, since I updated to iOS7 the problem has returned again. I have tried turning off the calendar function in the iCloud settings but to no avail. I share a calendar with my wife and have a personal calendar along with my work one. It is my work calendar which is the problem one. I noticed in an earlier post about the colour change from green to purple, this is the same issue I have with my work calendar.

It is most frustrating and annoying, it does beg the question as to the security of the whole iCloud function, something I have been sceptical and suspicious of.

I look forward to a resolution to this issue!

Just spoke to Apple Care Support. After a call back, I was told they are aware of the issue and working on a fix.

As of today, the calendar colors seem to be working again for me!