I can't add a new event to my calendar on iPhone.

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I can't add a new event to my calendar on iPhone.

I can't add a new event to my calendar on iPhone. The plus sign is greyed out and even when I try it with Siri it says "Sorry. I can't do that right now". I did my due diligence and searched all over the forums and internet and I can't fix this. There was a listing in a forum where a lady had this same symptom but it looks like toggling iCloud worked for her. Not for me. I went into Settings>iCloud and turned off Calendar and then turned it back on. Still nothing. I even went to iCloud Backup and turned it on then back off and still nothing. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

iPhone 4S

Posted on Sep 11, 2014 4:27 PM

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 5:19 PM in response to jaytango

I GOT IT TO WORK!!!! After I saw that there were no events, I looked on the bottom, where it says "Today Calendars Inbox" and I clicked on 'Calendars'. There were only 2 calendars showing... US Holidays and Birthdays. I tried to scroll down and the top said "updating" or "refreshing",something like that, then all of a sudden It Added AlliCloud, Home, and Work to the calendars list. The plus sign is red again. I wonder what could have causd that glitch?

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Sep 11, 2014 4:31 PM in response to jaytango

A few other things is locating what Calendar you are trying to add the event to. We can do this by going to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars and pressing on each email account to see if you have an option for 'Calendars' and if it is turned on. If it is you can turn if off and right back on and then try to add the Event again.

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Sep 11, 2014 5:11 PM in response to jaytango

See if you can go to your Calendars App and select a previous event to see what Calendar the event was added to (iCloud or Yahoo). After that is determined you can go to www.iCloud.com or calendar.yahoo.com and add the event there to see if it will populate on your device. Another troubleshooting step is deleting the iCloud account from your device and also deleting the Yahoo account. Then check to see if you can add an event without it syncing to a email. If you can then it may have just been a bug and you can add both accounts back and try adding the event again. I would also recommend only using one service to sync your Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, etc. Such as either iCloud only or Yahoo only, as using multiple accounts means your data is spread around and can be hard to isolate when something goes wrong.

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Oct 2, 2017 2:11 PM in response to jaytango

What you have to do it is you go into settings: Icloud, calendars, and turn calendars on and if you go into the app calendars then it should have the red plus sign in the top right corner!

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 4:40 PM in response to nlbconcrete

Thanks for the quick response, nlbconcrete. I did try the sleep/wake/home reset already and I also checked each account to make sure calendar was on. There are 2 accounts, iCloud and Yahoo. Both show Calendars as "on". When I toggle the iCloud off and on i get the "Turning off" and "Turning on" messages respectively. But when I try to turn off calendars for Yahoo it says "Delete from my phone" (All yahoo calendars will be removed from your phone). I'm afraid this might delete all entries in my phone.

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Sep 11, 2014 4:43 PM in response to jaytango

Yes it will delete all the entries from your iPhone, but Calendars works the same as Contacts, Notes, and Reminders. That means that although you can see your calendar Events on your iPhone that are really stored on an Email provider's server. In this case your calendar entries are stored on Yahoo's server, so deleting them from your iPhone will not delete them permanently and you should always be able to see your calendar events for yahoo at calendar.yahoo.com

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 4:54 PM in response to nlbconcrete

Well, no luck. I went ahead and turned off Calenders (and clicked Delete) in the Yahoo account. Turned it back on. The plus sign is still greyed out in Calendars.

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 5:15 PM in response to nlbconcrete

This is very strange. I went back to see previous events and there are no events at ALL. Only holidays are showing up, and I'm assuming that's automatic, since I never actually saved any holidays. There are no events whatsoever?!?!? The problem seems to be much bigger than I thought.

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Sep 11, 2014 5:26 PM in response to jaytango

Crap... I'm not out of the water yet!!!! I can now click the plus sign, label the event, select the time... but when I click 'Done' it briefly appears on the event list then it disappears!!!!

Nevermind. It DOES work. I got so excited when the plus sign turn red, I must've scrolled to 2013. The plus sign is now red and I can add an event succesfully. Not sure what caused those calendars to disappear though.

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Sep 11, 2014 5:32 PM in response to jaytango

That's great news!! When you pressed on 'Calendars' on the bottom you may have also hit 'Hide All Calendars' which would have caused all of your events to be hidden. But I'm glad you can now add events on your device and remember you can also add events on www.iCloud.com or calendars.yahoo.com if you happen to be on a computer.

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Sep 11, 2014 4:29 PM in response to jaytango

First thing we can try jay tango is a complete power off and back on using Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 4:56 PM in response to nlbconcrete

Well, no luck. I went ahead and turned off Calenders (and clicked Delete) in the Yahoo account. Turned it back on. The plus sign is still greyed out in Calendars.

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jaytango Author

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Sep 11, 2014 5:34 PM in response to nlbconcrete

Thank you very much, nlbconcrete, for your patience and assistance.

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Sep 11, 2014 7:09 PM in response to jaytango

Glad I could help!

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