I asked support to help me restore my iPhone calendar, but they told me to restore my iPhone, now it’s worse. Can someone please help me get my old events back on my calendar?
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Original Title: i asked support for help restoring my iphone 12 calendar but now its worse
jschwar313 wrote:
I asked support to help me restore my iPhone calendar, but they told me to restore my iPhone, now it’s worse. Can someone please help me get my old events back on my calendar?
Well what were you syncing your calendar to mail account or icloud.
If icloud follow steps here Restore your calendars and events on iCloud.com - Apple Support
if mail account sign back into the account and re-enable calendar, if that doesn't help reach out to your email support.
jschwar313 wrote:
I asked support to help me restore my iPhone calendar, but they told me to restore my iPhone, now it’s worse. Can someone please help me get my old events back on my calendar?
Well what were you syncing your calendar to mail account or icloud.
If icloud follow steps here Restore your calendars and events on iCloud.com - Apple Support
if mail account sign back into the account and re-enable calendar, if that doesn't help reach out to your email support.
jschwar313 wrote:
Can you tell me more about how to “sign back into the account and re-enable calendar”?
Add back your email account Add an email account to your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
Once you have set it up, it will give you an option to enable mail, calendar, contacts, notes etc.
It's not the phone, likely the iOS 18.6 is the problem. Hopefully you have a mac desktop and your calendar will have all you are searching for. That is what I discovered when all my appointments before May 2025 disappeared from my iPhone (I have a separate post "iPhone calendar missing my appointments before May").
The restore effort was misguided, however that likely not an issue, but not a fix either. Using your desktop (or laptop) you can look up your previous appointments in calendar, reschedule and it will synch with your phone. That is my experience. Possibly logging into your iCloud account will accomplish the same thing, I did not try.
I was syncing to both I believe
i I did try this before I wrote to you but the data recovery window shows nothing about calendars. Here’s a screen print of what it shows. Thanks so much for the help I appreciate it so much
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jschwar313 wrote:
I’m sorry. I just don’t see the option to add back my calendar. My calendar entries are there, but I don’t think they’re backed up anywhere.
And what do you see?
There should be an option to enable contacts and calendar.
jschwar313 wrote:
I think this is where you’re talking about
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/66e17ea5-1c36-431a-ac31-0aa175f9a70e
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/8809ba85-63b6-4abd-a344-a415c77f76f1
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Yes this is the spot I was talking about, there is where you would see calendar/contacts/mail etc.
Can you tell me more about how to “sign back into the account and re-enable calendar”?
I’m sorry. I just don’t see the option to add back my calendar. My calendar entries are there, but I don’t think they’re backed up anywhere.
I think this is where you’re talking about
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In addition to calendar entries being missing, at least one contact is missing from July 10th
Also, I’ve noticed that onepast note that were updated no longer have the update
Awesome. It looks like my calendar entries are back. I see a doctor regularly and previously my entries went back a month. Now it goes back to 2022. Thanks. Not sure about notes though.
Calendar events missing after iPhone restore
