Turn off Calendar App Notification for All Day Appointments

I know how to turn off an individual appointment alert notification. But what I want to do is disable ALL alert notifications for 24hour (All Day) appointments in my Calendar app. How do I do that?


Here is the usual scenario:


A new calendar item is created as an all day (24 hour 12:00am-12:00pm) appointment in a shared Google calendar or in an Exchange calendar. The calendar item in those native applications (gmail or Exchange/Outlook) has NO appointment reminder alert notification. NONE. Then when iPhone synchronizes those calendars with the iPhone Calendar app, iPhone is adding a notification 10 minutes prior to the start of the event... In other words, at 11:50pm my phone will vibrate and chime. Of course, this is not desirable since I am most likely sleeping and don't want a notification.


(The all day appointment is typically to record something like a work vacation day, holiday, personal event (like an anniversary or birthday), etc. These kinds of things should not block regular meeting times and should just float on the calendar as an all day event.)


I can manually remove the notification for an appointment (and if it is recurring, for all occurances). That works fine if I remember to do it on my iPhone after I've set the appointment in gmail or Exchange/Outlook. However, I don't always remember, and it is an extra step that should NOT be necessary, since the appointments in those other apps have NO reminders or notifications set. Certainly none with a 10 minute alert!


This is really frustrating.

iPhone 6s, iOS 11.1.1

Posted on Dec 29, 2017 10:04 AM

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Dec 30, 2017 8:25 AM in response to geogherkins

Greetings, geogherkins!

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! Upon reading your post, I'm understanding that you would like to configure your iPhone calendar in such a way that "all-day" events do NOT send you a notification. I wouldn't want to receive a bunch of notifications right before midnight, either, so I'm happy to help!

It sounds like you might want to modify the default alert setting for all-day events. To do that on your iPhone, go to Settings > Calendar > Default Alert Times and choose "None" for All-Day Events. You can also modify the default alert for regular events and birthdays (if you have that feature enabled).

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Have a fantastic day!

Dec 30, 2017 1:21 PM in response to geogherkins

Thanks for getting back to us, geogherkins!

It does appear that your settings are set the way they should be. Since that's not changing the behavior of your alerts, try enabling the alerts, then force close the Settings and Clock apps, then restart your phone. Toggle the alert back off again and test. The following articles have the steps you will need for all that:

How to force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Let us know what happens.

Take care!

Jan 1, 2018 3:22 PM in response to geogherkins

I sent Outlook test meeting invitations to my Google gmail calendar and to my Exchange calendar. My iPhone is set to synchronize the Calendar app with both. In iPhone Calendar I do see the expected two (2) duplicates. However, three of the four have no notification (good). But one has a notification at 11:45pm! It isn't even consistent that BOTH gmail calendar items have the issue. ONLY the gmail calendar item sent from an Outlook 2007 client to gmail has the incorrect notification.


Issues:

1. iPhone was reset to NO notifications for All Day events. But there is a notication on one of four of the test cases!

2. iPhone was set previously to a "15 minutes before" on Events only (not All Day Events) before it was reset. This value is somehow sticking around after the reset and being erroneously applied to an All Day event!

3. It seems as if the common factor is the appointment originated from an Outlook 2007 client and was sent to a gmail calendar. But both the Outlook and the Gmail calendar items correctly show up as All Day Events and both have no notification set in their native applications. Only iPhone Calendar is incorrectly fabricating a notification!


I have lots of screenshots available. Can I just upload a PDF or DOCX attachment containing everything?

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