iPhone calendar freezes in IOS 11

I also tried what ARPU99 suggested - did not work for me unfortunately.

DID also note that creating an event/closing/re-opening and THEN adding a location, worked once more.

I use the location field all the time: it went bad once I updated to IOS 11 on my iPad. Annoying but at least I can continue to use the location feature.

I can no longer add a location after creating an event. Now that locks up as well. However I can copy from someplace else and paste. Or select from the Siri suggestions displayed. Using Siri dictation does not lock up the calendar, but it also doesn’t work. When you select what you’ve dictated it just does not populate the location field.

I went to the Apple store and they had numerous devices on 11.0.3 and none were displaying this issue. However, I have the same issue on my iPhone 6s and iPad Pro 12. I do not have the issue on my iPad Air. They are all on various iOS 11.0.2 or 3. Does not seem to occur right after an update. Something must trigger this particular glitch.

I have an iPhone 8 with the latest 11.1.1. It has the same issue with the location hanging. I tried deleting the calendar application and re-installing, but that didn't help. My next step may be to backup, wipe, and restore, but I have doubts that will fix the issue.

Please keep us updated is there is any news on this.

Ugh! Fixed the typos: The AppleCare rep did say that they are aware of the problem and they took some screenshots of my email accounts so There maybe multiple IMAP accounts is an issue as one of the posters mentioned.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I would urge readers to be a little careful with this fix. First, it did not work for me on an iPhone X.

Second, it created 4000 duplicate calendar entries on my iPhone. I believe I followed the instructions in this post correctly, but there is always a chance I did something wrong. Anyway, my contact list or no fairly gunned up.

I would recommend people to use the “ZZ“solution suggested by another reader

The last suggestion that an AppleCare advisor supervisor had to offer was to perform a factory restore on my iPhone 6 and reset it as a "New Phone" and use it like that for a few days. They told me that this was the next step; required it they were to continue to help me, so they could be sure it wasn't a "device" issue. Since I had read about everyone else's problems with the exact same problem, also after the iOS upgrade, I was not about to waste all that time and effort.

I guess we are at Apple's mercy.

Good as Siri is, the chances are, a complex ‘postal’ address is likely to be mis-heard by Siri. Try deleting all or some of the characters Siri has ‘typed’ and you’ll probably discover that the freeze occurs.

Well, simpler getting through with Apple Calendar at all and use Google Calendar. At least it is reliable. I am sorry for Apple, but honestly I do not see any reason to use a workaround to use an app that they do not wish to fix when I have a valid alternative. By the way, Apple devices are robust and reliable but Apple software is always confusing me. In the iPad mail app there is no way to select a range of email for bulk deletion. You have to select each email one by one, or use another workaround to delete them all. iTunes is probably one of the worst software I ever used. I could speak for hours about wrong things in that software. The Clock and Calendar app are really poor. The Contact app is extremely limited in function, really primitive. There is no either a bulk edit of fields. But also this forum is really unreliable.

I just received the following email with the latest comment, since I subscribed this topic:

So I clicked on "go to the discussion" and I got this:

I repeated the operation on the laptop. Same result. I had to go directly on the post to add this comment!

I have the exact same problem. I enter the box for location and the app freezes. I have to save the event first so I don’t lose the person and time. Then I have to go back in and edit the event go into the location field and enter the first few letters i.e. Dr. .... and I have to wait literally for 15 minutes for it to unfreeze. I am using a brand new iPhone X. This does not occur on my new IPad Mini.

Why is this happening to so many people for such a long time. Same thing happened on my IPhone 6S.

Please advise. This cannot be considered a “business machine” with this flaw. Huge time waster.

Thank you,

Carlos

I installed 11.2 on my iPhone and iPad. It does NOT fix the problem. Still using the zzzz work around. Very disappointing.

Thanks for this idea to fix my Calendar glitch, but it did not seem to work for me. I turned off the contacts but when I turned them back on it didn’t say anything about what I wanted to do with local contacts and I never saw it repopulating anything. I went back into my Calendar app and it continues to lock. Very frustrating since I missed my web meeting this morning because I couldn’t get the event to open in my calendar... aaargh. If anyone has other ideas, I’d be grateful!

I ended iPhone having a different issue with my iPhone 7 Plus (the Bluetooth had an issue). Apple replaced the hardware with a new iPhone 7 Plus. The new one works fine. I would have tried to delete the calendar app and reinstall it, but I never got to that point.