iPhone Calendar search not working

I have iOS 17.1.1 using a 12 ProMax and recently the search function in calendar stopped working. I can see the event (so I know it’s there), but when I type a keyword it says “no results”. Works fine on my Mac.

My calendar search has stopped working. It only finds things that are on Today’s calendar. I can’t seem to get it to change its behavior. I’ve powered down the phone and I am at iOS 16.3.1. Any ideas?

Dear Apple, This continues to be an issue and, from just this stream, would seem to be an enduring issue. I agree with a recent poster that the issue resides only with the iPhone OS as my iPad searches are rich in their results. As most of us carry our phones with us all the time, it would seem to be a serious issue that should get resolved.

Unfortunately turning on those two calendar options didn’t fix the problem. The calendar app will search if I only put in one letter (sort of), but it doesn’t find all the entries that contain that letter. It really needs to be able to search on a string. In my opinion, 17.1.1 introduced a bug that needs to be fixed. Search works fine on my iPads.

I have 17.1.1. In the calendar app under Siri Search I have selected “show app in search” and “show content in search” and before I had that selected my Calendar app, search was broken.

Now it is not. The naming of those two buttons don’t really mean much. But if you have them selected the calendar search seems to work.

I have been determined to sort this as I am self employed and use my calendar for work.

sorted tick ☑️

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

Took me weeks of searching to no avail. But I finally figured it out.

In the calendar app, under calendars, others, make sure you have a check mark next to SIRI suggestions. Now I can search past present and future.

Would have been nice for support to have posted this a few thousand headaches ago.

Just updated to iOS 17.1.1, the Calendar search is broken again :(

I’ve tried all of the above and still won’t work… 2nd time I’ve experienced this issue, not sure how it resolved itself the first time but very frustrating given I use my calendar to book clients for my business… usually autogenerates the information for each client… not anymore

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

Hi peek201, We appreciate you reaching out to us. We understand that you are experiencing issues searching for calendar events on your iPhone.

We’d like to gather additional details that may help us be in a better position to assist you.

Did you use the steps in the article below to set up your Calendar?

Set up iCloud for Calendar on all your devices

If yes, we recommend that you check for a software update.

While it isn't inherently assured that an update will resolve the issue, updating to the latest software version for your device can help isolate potential software issues. 

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Take care!

I have been determined to sort this as I am self employed and use my calendar for work.

sorted tick ☑️

I had this problem, Apple support didn’t know the answer and all the steps online

restart

update

shut app

didn’t work.

settings - calendar - I clicked sync events for 2 weeks - swiped down app to refresh.

I then went back to ALL EVENT and swiped down to refresh and it worked.

I had that enabled so it might not be the same issue that I had but here’s something I noticed when I was checking g to see if I had that Siri option enabled.

To test this I needed to remember something that old to search for in my calendar. But couldn’t think of anything to search for older than a year or more so I went to the calendar and scrolled back two years and at first there was nothing in my calendar (no dots on days to indicate there’s an event there when in year view). But then events started showing up in the calendar as I assume it started pulling events down from iCloud.

So here’s my guess, when searching originally I think the event I was looking for was older and not synced down. But if I scroll back a couple years it triggers it to pull down events and now it will find events in those years.

Either way it seems very odd that the app can’t pull search results from iCloud fast enough.

Hmm I've tried that and it's not working any better. I recently upgraded from an iPhone 11 to a 15 and while it only happened very occasionally before I now can't get any search results in my calendar at all. I've tried all the recommendations to reset the settings for the calendar sync options and while it's sometimes bringing through past events it's still not finding future ones.

My iPhone 13, iOS 16.0.3, calendar search is not working. I have multiple events past and future and search says no results.