25th Floor
Level 1
(5 points)
Q: Calendar and contacts are very slow to get push from iCloud
I'm have all my mail, contacts and calendars with iCloud, using them in the native apps across my MacBook Pro, iPhone 5S and iPad (4th Gen). Until recently, these have typically all been in quick alignment with changes done on my MacBook Pro to calendar events and contacts getting quickly propagated (pushed) out to my iPhone and iPad.
Lately this has changed and now changes implemented on my computer can take hours to get pushed out to the iOS devices. Seriously, hours.
Is there some setting I need to adjust on the iPhone or iPad?
I can verify that the changes on my laptop are quickly getting up to the iCloud calendar or contacts by looking at those directly in the browser view of iCloud. But even though they are there in the iCloud calendar they are not getting quickly pushed to my phone or iPad. (Yes, I have the devices set to get the iCloud data by push).
All this propagation out to the iOS devices had been working fine under iOS 8.1.1, and the last Mavericks update. The two recent alterations to my gear have been updating my iOS devices to iOS 8.1.2, and my switching over my MacBook Pro to Yosemite 10.10.1. The problem may have started with the iOS update, and it took me a bit to realize that is was occurring. Since the stuff is quickly getting from my computer to iCloud, it seems like the Yosemite side is working properly.
Other observations:
- resetting my iPhone (home and power button depression) did not fix the behavior.
- when I input a calendar event on the iPhone, it rapidly propagates via iCloud to the calendar on my computer. And this spur of communication gets the previously missing items pushed down from iCloud to the iPhone. But this updating is specific to the device. When this forces the phone to update, the iPad does not also get refreshed. And the same is true when adding an event from the iPad.
- mail updating to the phone or iPad seems fine. I'm not sure about the pushed synching of Reminders or Notes.
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.2, 32 GB
25th Floor
Level 1
(5 points)
Well, it seems few others have encountered this problem. Nonetheless, I thought I would post the solution that I found.
On the iPhone or iPad, under settings I went to iCloud. Then I selected the iCloud account name that appears at the top, which is the access point to do changes in iCloud settings such a password or contact info. But this initiates with asking for the iCloud password.
After giving the password, I then cancelled out of that and for what ever reason, this refreshed the "relationship" between my iOS device and my iCloud account. There after all the calendar, contacts and reminders changes that I made on my computer got rapidly pushed out to my iPhone and iPad.
This was after trying all the other suggestions given under iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Calendar - Apple Support.
It was also much less distressing than the extreme option of signing the iOS device out of iCloud, thereby deleting all the iCloud content on the device.
Apple should add this simple solution to their troubleshooting guide.
