IOS Devices Stopped Syncing suddenly
Very strange - been working fine all year. Macbook Pro (new in August), iPad 3 (new in October), iPhone 4s. Using iCloud to keep them all syncing. All of a sudden, syncing to the ios devices has stopped. Event FROM the ios device goes to the Macbook and iCloud.com. All events from Macbook show up on icloud.com. No new software or updates have occured since this stopped suddenly.
Troubleshoot steps;
- power cycled each device
- Turned off icloud on ios devices and power cycled.
- turned off calendars on ios device and restarted
- Forced sync on each ios device
- Verified account settings and credit card for icloud were up to date.
Searched forums for useful info - found a number of people with the same or similar problem with no resolution.
One person suggests that icloud servers have glitches periodically. I don't know if that's verified or not, but I depend on this for work and now that it's stopped for no apparent reason, I'm in trouble.
Any thoughts on additional steps I can try? Or anyone know if an Apple issue exists?
Thanks
First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your calendars are in the iCloud account, you might try unchecking calendar syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling calendar syncing settings.
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