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iCloud Calendars Changing Colors

I have used the iCloud calendar flawlessly for months between my macbook pro, and my iPhone 5. I have 3 calendars (School, Work, and Events) and they have always synced between my phone and laptop perfectly. I noticed just last night (Aug. 13th.) that the small color icons on each calendar are changing by themselves. It is very frustrating, is anyone else having this problem?


I will change them back to the colors they originally were, and without clicking or touching anything else, wait a few seconds and watch them change. It seems that whenever it refreshes or tries to sync, they change randomly - sometimes with more than one calendar being the same color. I tried turning off all wireless activity on both my macbook and iPhone, and resetting the colors on both, but the moment I turn wifi/data back on, they start randomly changing again.


Any ideas?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Aug 14, 2013 2:34 PM

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Aug 14, 2013 3:35 PM in response to dtobin13

I have been having the same problem with calendar colors since early this morning with my Home and Work calendars. I am also noticing the Reminders App changes its view by itself to Personal reminders on my MacBookPro running the lastest version of Mountain Lion. It will not stay on the view I select for more than a minute or two. I have also noticed that syncing of Notes between my iPhone and my MacBookPro using iCloud appears to be down. The joys of cloud computing. :/

Aug 15, 2013 6:22 AM in response to dtobin13

I'm having the exact same problem and it also started on August 13th. The colored dots are changing colors, in my case from Green to Purple. I have different colors for specific jobs and now they are all the same color. Very strange. Sometimes they go back on their own.... issue when synching?? Apple's servers??? Please address!!

Aug 15, 2013 8:12 AM in response to Hana

Very frustrating indeed. I'm having the same issue that started yesterday, 8/14. The Home calendar appears to want to default to Blue and the Work caledar appears to want to default to Purple. This seems pretty consistent with the other numerous threads I've read here on this. These calendars will then periodically change between your selected colors and these "defaults." Other shared calendars are impacted as well and it seems that iCloud will also select some default color for them. My wife's shared Home calendar wants to default to Green on my end.


To stabilize the color scheme to avoid all of the constant changing, I went to my iPhone and set the calendar colors to the "the other color" or apparent default color that iCloud keeps flipping to. It's not an acceptable solution at all because I liked my old color scheme, but for the time being until Apple gets this fixed, my calendar colors are at least stabilized and are no longer changing colors everytime I look at it. Now to get used the different colors I've had switch to due iCloud's preferences. :/

Oct 8, 2013 8:46 PM in response to dtobin13

What is the purpose of posing questions here if Apple doesn't answer them? I have the same problem. All of a sudden tonight the entries for my most used calendar all changed color. I tried repeatedly to get it to go back, and can change the color of all my other calendars, but not this one--which I need to change.


I removed it as the default calendar, and then tried again, but no luck, the color won't go to the one I want.


What gives, Apple. Can someone in the company please respond with a fix?

Oct 8, 2013 9:03 PM in response to dtobin13

I have been using iCloud since the first day it was available and haven't had any real problems.

Today, I looked at the events under my work calendar and all of a sudden they are all purple instead of blue. I have tried to change them back to blue on my Mac, my iPad my iPhone and on iCloud.com and after about a minute or two it will revert back to purple. What is going on?

Oct 8, 2013 9:39 PM in response to dtobin13

Hey just want to say I created this discussion in August because I was having this problem then, and a few days after that (probably about August 18th or so) it fixed itself. Now on October 8th, it has started again. So for any of you experiencincing this problem for the first time, it hopefully will go away within a few days. That's what it did last time, and that's what I'm hoping on. I know for those of us that use the calendar often it's a fairly anoying problem, but I spent hours trying to fix it last time back in August and got no where untill it fixed itself, so my suggestion: wait it out again and save yourself the headache of worrying about it.

Oct 9, 2013 1:43 AM in response to dtobin13

Same thing here, I had the problem a few weeks ago, I even called Apple about it and never heard back.

The problem indeed just went away a few days later, but since today it's back again.


I guess it'll fix itself eventually like last time (or Apple will) - but until then it's very annoying.

My calendar looks like Barbies dreamhouse.

Oct 9, 2013 4:33 AM in response to dtobin13

Same here. Back in august my iCloud calendars started to change their colors on their own, but I could change then back to my color choice. Today they started again, this time with pink and mauve, somewhat like Baribie's Dreamhouse, as kimarui suggested. But now it's blocking me for set my color choices! For the worse, Apple seens to ignore this thread completely, despite it being almost two months old!

Oct 9, 2013 4:41 AM in response to Alfafa

Well I called support about it - they'll look into it.


I can confirm Alfafas problem: I cannot change colors either.

I also tried it thorugh the iCloud website directly, which eliminates the possibility of faulty software on my computers. If I change a color, it snaps right back to pink. So it's definitely a problem with Apples services, not our computers.

iCloud Calendars Changing Colors

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