Turn off auto location in Calendar

Thank you for posting! Same problem here!!! So i ended up just using "-" between words. For example: emerson-hall-1200. that is the building that is my location! and i kept getting emerson NJ in ical!

Hope Apple resolves this soon!!!

Thank you so much for this "patch" until Apple fixes the problem. This has been extremely frustrating. Adding the "-" is annoying and time-consuming, but is the best temporary fix I've seen so far.

My "thank you" goes out to YDNY.

I can't be bothered with any of these workarounds. Sunrise Calendar (https://calendar.sunrise.am/) is gorgeous and solves this problem by using Google Maps for locations. It's lightning fast to type in the location field and Google Map suggestions come up almost instantaneously (assuming a fast Internet connection). So my attempt to put in a club in Calendar which resulted in substitution of just the street address without the venue name came up with the full venue name and address properly mapped in Google Maps in the calendar entry after entering 4 characters of the venue name in Sunrise Calendar.

The only down side is that Exchange/Outlook calendars are only supported on iOS and Android, not the Web or Mac versions.

The price? FREE! And it's beautiful to look at.

Apple should be embarrassed (and I'm an Apple fan).

New: I just switched back to Sunrise Calendar (I really gave the Yosemite version of Calendar a try, but this issue happened one too many times tonight). Apparently Sunrise is now part of Microsoft! They say it will remain free and they'll keep making it better with an update coming soon!

I left feedback for Apple about this. I have this problem also. Thanks for the tips. I was able to edit the location on my iPhone, but what a pain!

Sorry to arrive late at this thread, but I was having this problem also and the workaround I found was simply to enter a street address with no city, and then bypass the suggestions by mouse clicking somewhere else outside the Event window. It seems to work for me. As a new user to Yosemite (upgraded from Lion), I find Maps to be as big an embarrassment for Apple on the desktop as it was in iOS. If I could disable it entirely, I would.

having found this thread on discovering that I too was suffering with the same auto substitution issue in the location field of Calendar...

I tried the suggestions here but nothing stuck 100%, so I called Apple Support (I've got AppleCare, so might as well use it)

Explained to a Level 1, then a Level 2 tec and he took the problem away and sent me a very prompt response the following day.

Here is the important bit of the response:

"Engineering have confirmed that they have received reports worldwide regarding the issue of location lookups/ autofill and the fact that they are shortening addresses and not allowing the customer to choose a suggestion as averse to have one forced upon them.

They advised that at present the issue is just beginning to come to light likely due to recent updates etc and they are currently investigating these reports.

They confirmed that they have al the information they need at this time and agreed that any solution is likely to come via another software update however they were unable to speculate on the expected turn around time at this point."

...please don't shoot the messenger 😉

but it pays to make that call or press that feedback button....and of course post here!

The only 100% workaround is to paste the address, the way you want it, in the Notes field until the permanent fix comes for the Location field.

Thanks for chasing this down with Apple. I gave up and spent the money for BusyCal (http://www.busymac.com/busycal/index.html and BusyContacts, which replaces the Apple Contacts app). Neither are cheap but I haven't looked back and I'm getting to love them more everyday, not just because of the issue in this particular thread. If you don't need access to an Exchange calendar, Sunrise (https://calendar.sunrise.am/) is very pretty and also gets around this issue. Sunrise has iOS clients and BusyCal and BusyContacts work fine with other iOS calendar and contact apps. I have Sunrise calendar on my iPhone.

Apple, please remove this feature of auto location in Calendar! It's gives useless suggestions all of the time and it's hard to work with this all day long! PLEASE PLEASE FIX IT! Thank you!

I've just called Apple about this too - the lady, after trying to enter an address, saw the problem for herself immediately. She logged the 'bug', and sent me a link directing me to the location to report it ... for iCal!! https://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html 😕

I've just reported the bug too.

Then I tried starting the address I was entering with a non-break space (Alt + Space bar), and it seemed to prevent the auto-substitution.

As I see it there are two issues with this. My primary concern is that of privacy. As an earlier poster notes, why would I want my whereabouts logged in such detail by a service provider? But secondly, yes: the difficulty in editing the location is also very annoying.

Couldn't location suggestions simply be a optional feature in preferences?

I am amazed that this still has not been resolved.

A Sat-Nav app that I use ('Waze' - can't recommend it enough, it's free and works very well) has the handy function of accessing your calendar and when you open the App, it offers to direct you to your next appointment.

Now however, the app can't always recognise an address once iCalendar massacres it.

Sadly, the workarounds that people have suggested are counter-productive in this situation, eg. obscuring addresses by adding Zs to fool iCalendar, also fools my Sat-Nav!

For some reason, this following format doesn't get auto-corrected and is still recognised by my Sat-Nav. It might be helpful for those people who want to keep their addresses neat, with commas between each line...

10 High Street,

Bedford,

Bedfordshire,

UK,

MK31 2SP

In addition to Mathlover1's suggestion to press Tab right after entering the address you want, I used Doscoharsh's suggestion to first make sure your mouse is hovering somewhere above the title of the event. That seems to work - at least for now.

Thank you for raising the net-traffic/privacy issue. There seems to be a lot of chatter (JSON?) back and forth with secret unnamed Apple net 17 addresses; at least they did put the traffic under https-style encryption.

My primary objection was to the pop-up of choices cluttering the screen when I was not interested in such choices.

Soap-box on:

Then, the aha moment came; this is "New Coke" all over again. We are confronted with some new and amazing feature, left to figure it out and no way to turn it off (revert to "Classic...")

Soap-box off: