My iPad calendar is not showing all of my calendars, only birthdays. How do I see all calendars

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My iPad calendar is not showing all of my calendars, only birthdays. How do I see all calendars

All of a sudden, my calendar's events on my iPad disappeared. They are fine on my phone. When I click calendars on my iPad, the only option is birthdays. On my phone, it's all iCloud, calendar, home, work and Facebook events and birthdays. I thought I found the problem, as my email I'd was listed twice. I deleted one of them and that made all the notes on my iPad disappear, too. They are all safely in the cloud. How do I get it all back on my iPad?

iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G

Posted on Feb 11, 2014 9:26 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 3, 2017 6:00 AM in response to jmacaula

jmacula. go to settings > mail, contacts, calendars > under calendars there is a sync option. make sure this is on all events rather than last month. On iOS 10 its settings > calendars > sync

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Feb 11, 2014 9:28 AM in response to jmacaula

Did you tap the Calendars button at the bottom of the calendars app and make sure that all of your calendars are selected?

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Feb 11, 2014 9:48 AM in response to Demo

I only see the calendar called birthdays, and even that doesn't seem to be posted on my calendar. I also can't add anything to the calendar.

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Feb 11, 2014 9:51 AM in response to jmacaula

On my phone when I tap calendars they are all there, but not on my iPad.

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Feb 11, 2014 10:30 AM in response to jmacaula

Go to your setting on the iPhone and iPad. You need to make sure that all settings in the mail, contacts, and calendar tab is all the same. You need to see which individual email account has turned on. Meaning if on your iPhone you have iCloud, gmail, and yahoo accounts. They will have the calendar tab on, if that is the case then we need to go to the iPad and have all the same toggles on and off. I can only think that is the issue right now. If everything is the same then let me know or repost and I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out.

Hope this helps.

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Feb 11, 2014 10:31 AM in response to jmacaula

I would also delete all accounts maybe on the iPad and then re-add them to see what email does have qll the calendar events.

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Feb 11, 2014 10:35 AM in response to jmacaula

I think it would be worth a try to toggle the calendar off and on - on the iPad. Even if you turn it off, when you do turn it back on, the events should sync again.

However, my standard first step troubleshooting suggestion is always close the app and reboot the iPd and see of that helps. That is worth a try as well.

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jmacaula Author

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Feb 11, 2014 10:47 AM in response to Demo

interestingly, on my iphone, under settings, mail, contacts, calendars, then under calendars, after Start Week On, there is a default Calendar option, where I have selected 'Calendar', and that's what my default on the phone is. However, on my ipad, there is no such option. After Start Week On on my ipad, it goes directly to Shared Calendar Alerts.

Dear Demo, how do I 'toggle the calendar on and off'? And how do i reboot the ipad, other than turning on and off? Thanks very very much for trying to help me with this.

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Feb 11, 2014 11:00 AM in response to jmacaula

I'm not sure why you are not seeing the Default calendar setting on your iPad.

I am talking about toggling the calendar off and on in iCloud. Is the calendar option even turned on? Settings>iCloud>Calendar>on.

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jmacaula Author

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Feb 11, 2014 11:39 AM in response to Demo

well, i went to the icloud settings ad toggled calendar off and then on again. we will see if that does the trick. I'll let you know if magic happens, or if it doesn't, in a few hours.

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