Calendar disappeared from iPhone

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Calendar disappeared from iPhone

Woke this morning to find the calendar where I keep all my important appointments had disappeared overnight on my iPhone. Since my iPad and iPhone calendars would never completely sync up, I have no way to replicate or re-enter appointments back into my iPhone. Since tracking down all the appointments I have scheduled would require a ton of phone calls, I was wondering if anyone had a solution or experienced a similar problem. Why in the heck is the calendar in question still present but incomplete on my iPad but now non-existent on my iPhone?!?!?! Arggghhhh

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Apr 7, 2014 4:48 PM

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randers4

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Apr 7, 2014 4:52 PM in response to Cocosam

Does your calendar still appear on icloud.com?

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Apr 7, 2014 6:19 PM in response to randers4

Just as "calendar", I can't get into it to see if the three subset calendars are there. When I look on my iPad it lists all 3 but is incomplete, on my phone only two exist under icloud and unfortunately the one that is missing is the important one. I recognize I'm pretty ignorant about how to go about this so be gentle haha! Thanks for being willing to help.

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randers4

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Apr 7, 2014 6:23 PM in response to Cocosam

Did you click on Calendar on icloud.com to open the Calendar app? It should list all your iCloud calendars on the left sidebar, if there are any.

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Apr 7, 2014 8:59 PM in response to randers4

Sorry, reluctantly had to do an update before it would let me explore it. The icloud calendars are the same but apparently when I entered appointment in the iphone it went to an additional account under yahoo which I can access (but is incomplete) on the iPad and no longer exists in the iphone.

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randers4

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Apr 7, 2014 9:04 PM in response to Cocosam

Ok. Add the Yahoo account to your phone and enable calendar syncing to see the Yahoo calendar events on your phone too.

iCloud will not sync calendars from external services such as Yahoo, Google, Exchange, etc. so you won't see those events on icloud.com. iCloud only syncs events added to your iCloud calendar(s). To ensure that new events added to your iOS devices are added to your iCloud calendar by default, go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Default Calendar (in the Calendars section) and select an iCloud calendar. Then add a test event on your device and confirm that it appears on icloud.com now. If it does, you iCloud calendar is syncing properly.

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Cocosam Author

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Apr 7, 2014 9:24 PM in response to randers4

Did that - thanks! At least that syncs now. However, the original appointment info is still missing on both so should I assume it's irretrievably gone?

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randers4

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Apr 7, 2014 9:27 PM in response to randers4

If you don't see the missing events on your calendar on icloud.com then, unfortunately, they are no longer in iCloud. Without another backup source there would be no way to recover them.

Of course, if they went missing without you doing anything at all it's possible they will reappear if you give it some time, indicating it was just a server glitch at Apple's end.

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Apr 7, 2014 10:58 PM in response to randers4

Thanks for the help. Hoping they'll magically reappear just as they disappeared.

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randers4

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Apr 8, 2014 9:41 AM in response to Cocosam

You're welcome. Good luck!

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