Calendar first and second alerts still switching on its own!

There are no "ongoing issues" with iOS 8 on my iPhone 5. It also runs fine on my iPad Air 2.

You certainly can't expect any fix in iOS 7.1.2

Update to iOS 8.3 and see if the problem has been corrected. If not, tell Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I have never experienced the problem you mention. Is the platform information noted in your post still accurate?

If I understand the thread correctly (and I realize I may not), the issue is that the position of Alert 1 and Alert 2 switches after they are set. Is that accurate?

This is a fairly recent bug for me on the last couple of iOS updates on an iPhone 5, then my current iPhone 6 (iOS 8.3). Having looked back at how long this has been an issue, I'm completely shocked Apple haven't fixed this yet - completely unacceptable. In my case, the dates/times for the 1st/2nd alerts reverse themselves, then neither alert goes off - has caused me to miss a couple of appointments before I figured out what was going on. How hard can this be to fix, really?

3dit0r - I'm still trying to get someone to clear up my confusion on this. The first part of the issue is that the position of Alert 1 and Alert 2 switches after they are set. Is that accurate? I have not noticed this, but then again, whether one alert is #1 or #2 is unimportant to me.

The second part I get - the alerts do not go off. This is something I have never experienced.

This bizarre glitch has been happening since at least iOS 6. It doesn't happen with all alerts, but it definitely happens enough to be a nuisance factor. Have you left feedback for Apple at the link below?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

@OldGnome - on my iPhone, they randomly switch (sometimes, sometimes not - which makes the whole thing unreliable). When they do switch, neither alert goes off - this is the critical part, frankly I couldn't give a monkeys whether they display in the correct order as long as they both go off, as that way at least I won't miss appointments I set alerts for.

@stedman1 - yes, I've left a bug report at the Apple feedback site.

I should add that, when the alerts do decide to switch themselves and I notice and try to change it, no amount of editing those alerts will get them to stay in the correct order, even reversing them doesn't work. Absolute madness.

3dit0r wrote:

I should add that, when the alerts do decide to switch themselves and I notice and try to change it, no amount of editing those alerts will get them to stay in the correct order, even reversing them doesn't work. Absolute madness.

Well, that's interesting. I've found that after the initial reversal of alert times, any second attempt at changing them back will work. I've tried this on an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2, both running iOS 7.1.2. I'll check it on the iPhone 5C, running iOS 8.3 later today.

You're lucky then, I've tried far more than twice on several occasions, only to eventually give up and just leave one alert in place, instead of two.

Yeah.... same here on my iPhone 5... I've stopped trying to figure it out and am just double checking the alarms after being set... definitely unsettling.

I set two alerts thinking if I miss one, surely I'll get the second, but noooo. So I missed a doctor appointment I had scheduled months ago. So now my iPhone is costing me more money than it's worth. The 3GS changed my life and now each version chips away at my loyalty to the Apple brand. (iPhone 6 64GB ver. 8.4 p.s. I refuse to upgrade again as each release has caused problems with my 2015 Leaf Bose system, but that's another thread).

THank God I'm not crazy!! When I called support they told me I "was doing it wrong". Really?? I have kept these dates reoccurring for years and they worked fine. Now they switch automatically etc. I even booted up my iPhone 5 took a screenshot of how they were set and how they are now changed. I touched nothing. nice Apple. I can't afford to miss meetings or appointments!!!

Everyone, I solved this problem by disabling default calendar alerts on both my mac and my iphone.

mac - Calendar (Yosemite): Change the default alert settings for events

iphone - http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-set-default-reminders-for-ios-calendar/

Thanks but could you give a little more detail? I've looked in those settings and don't understand how setting one default alert time is fixing a problem with dual alerts?

Have you tried setting the disabling the defaults? Has it solved the problem?