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iPhone Calendar search sometimes fails

My iPhone Calendar is mostly reliable. However, I noticed a search on a partial event name I did not find all events for the month; 3 events were missing out of 7 expected. When I cleared out of search, all 7 events were present. There seems to be nothing about their event names that would cause the search to miss. I tried closing the Calendar App and restarting my iPhone, as suggested, but the problem was still present. My iPhone has iOS 11.4.1.

  • I also have an iPad Calendar on my iPad 3 with iOS 9.3.5; when I searched there, all 7 events were present.
  • I replicate my calendar with Google Calendar; when I searched there, all 7 events were present.
  • I replicate Google Calendar with my Thunderbird Calendar; when I searched there, only 2 of the 7 events were found.

iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Aug 2, 2018 6:06 PM

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Posted on Aug 2, 2018 6:17 PM

Update: When I searched my iPhone Calendar on a more complete Event Name, the search was successful, on all the calendars I mentioned. The full Event Name was "SHIP Volunteer Time (Monday)" or "SHIP Volunteer Time (Friday)". My failures were occurring when I searched on "SHIP". I achieved success when I searched on "SHIP Volunteer Time". So, I guess the lesson on Calendar searches is to use a more complete search term, and shorter terms may fail. Please reply and chime in on your experiences.

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Aug 2, 2018 6:17 PM in response to Bill-for-ipad

Update: When I searched my iPhone Calendar on a more complete Event Name, the search was successful, on all the calendars I mentioned. The full Event Name was "SHIP Volunteer Time (Monday)" or "SHIP Volunteer Time (Friday)". My failures were occurring when I searched on "SHIP". I achieved success when I searched on "SHIP Volunteer Time". So, I guess the lesson on Calendar searches is to use a more complete search term, and shorter terms may fail. Please reply and chime in on your experiences.

iPhone Calendar search sometimes fails

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