If your iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders won't sync

 Acquire what to practice if your iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders aren't appearing on all the devices that yous utilize with iCloud.

Effort the steps for your device

If you still need help, endeavor the steps for your device below.

  • iOS 13 and iPadOS or later
  • watchOS
  • macOS
  • iCloud.com
  • Microsoft Windows

iOS 13 and iPadOS or later

Subsequently each step, cheque your contacts, calendars, or reminders.

Restart the Contacts, Calendar, or Reminders app

  1. Close the app.
  2. Render to your Habitation Screen.
  3. Await about one minute, so open the app again.

Refresh your contacts and calendars

To refresh your contacts, open the Contacts app and swipe down on the list. To refresh your contact groups, tap Groups in the upper-left corner, so swipe down on the list.

To refresh your calendars:

  1. Open the Calendar app.
  2. Tap the Calendars tab.
  3. Swipe down on the list to refresh your events.
    Refresh your iCloud calendars on iPhone

Check your app settings

If you utilise multiple groups or accounts in the Contacts or Calendars app, make sure that your iCloud Contacts and Calendars are set to appear:

  • Open up the Contacts app and tap Groups in the upper-left corner. Make sure that All iCloud is selected.
  • Open up the Calendar app and tap the Calendars tab. Make sure that all iCloud calendars are selected.

Alter how often your calendars update:

  1. Tap Settings, then tap Agenda.
  2. Tap Sync.
  3. If All Events is selected, cull a specific timeframe instead, like Events 1 Month Dorsum. If a specific timeframe is selected, choose All Events instead.
  4. Return to your Habitation Screen.
  5. Wait a few minutes, then open the Agenda app. Tap the Calendars tab, and swipe down to refresh.

Since the iCloud Birthdays calendar updates daily, changes to birthdays might not appear in the Calendars app until the next day.

Fix iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders as your default

If your contacts, calendars, and reminders are in iCloud, and so iCloud automatically updates your information. If your information is in a third-political party business relationship, similar Google or Yahoo, yous can alter your default account to iCloud. Changing your default account to iCloud won't move your existing data from a tertiary-party service to iCloud.

Contacts

To see which account your contacts are in:

  1. Open the Contacts app and tap Groups in the upper-left corner.
  2. Deselect the All [account] choice for any 3rd-party account, like Gmail or Yahoo.
  3. Make sure All iCloud is selected.
  4. Tap Done to see your list of contacts. If you don't run into the contact you're looking for, it'due south stored in another account.
  5. If yous have a re-create of your contacts from a 3rd-party service in vCard format version iii.0 or later on, y'all can import the contacts into iCloud.

Ready iCloud equally the default account for your contacts:

  1. Tap Settings, so Contacts.
  2. Tap Default Account.
  3. Select iCloud.

Calendars and Reminders

To bank check which account your calendars are in, open the Calendar app, so tap the Calendars tab.

Set an iCloud agenda as the default calendar:

  1. Tap Settings, then Calendar.
  2. Tap Default Agenda.
  3. Tap a calendar nether iCloud to go far your default.
    Set an iCloud calendar as the default calendar on iPhone

Prepare an iCloud reminders listing as the default list:

  1. Tap Settings, and so Reminders.
  2. Tap Default List.
  3. Tap a listing nether iCloud to get in your default.

Delete overdue reminders

  1. Open up the Reminders app.
  2. Go to the Today view and check for any overdue reminders.
  3. If you notice any, tap the empty circumvolve to complete the reminder, or delete the reminder.

Repeat these steps on each device that'due south using iCloud Reminders.

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macOS

After each step, cheque your contacts, calendars, or reminders.

Refresh your calendars

You tin refresh your calendars from the Calendars app:

  1. Open the Calendar app.
  2. From the View menu, choose Refresh Calendars.

Since the iCloud Birthdays calendar updates hourly, you might not see changes to birthdays in the Contacts or Calendars app for an hour.

Check your default Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts account

If you shop and edit your events in iCloud instead of some other place, like On My Mac, Substitution, or Google, then iCloud automatically updates your calendars. If y'all use multiple accounts on your Mac like iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo, brand certain that iCloud is your default Calendar account:

  1. Open the Calendar app.
  2. Choose Agenda > Preferences.
  3. In the General tab, brand sure that one of your iCloud calendars is the default.

If y'all store and edit your contacts in iCloud instead of another place, similar On My Mac, Exchange, or Google, then iCloud automatically updates your contacts. If you use multiple accounts on your Mac like iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo, brand certain that iCloud is your default Contacts account:

  1. Open the Contacts app.
  2. Cull Contacts > Accounts.
  3. Click the iCloud tab and make sure that you're signed in with your Apple ID.

Every bit long every bit you've turned on Reminders in Organisation Preferences, your iCloud reminders appear on your Mac.

Delete completed or overdue reminders

  1. Open the Reminders app.
  2. Go to the Today view and check for any overdue reminders.
  3. If y'all notice any, check the empty circle to complete the reminder, or delete the reminder.

Repeat these steps on each device that's using iCloud Reminders.

Restart your computer

After you restart your computer, bank check if you lot fixed the issue.

iCloud.com

If all your updates don't appear or y'all take another issue, try these steps on iCloud.com:

  1. Update your browser and clear the cache.
  2. If updates from other devices don't appear, open up another app on iCloud.com, like Mail. So go back to the Contacts, Calendar, or Reminders app.
  3. Sign out of iCloud.com, so sign back in.
  4. Clear your browsing history. Cull History > Clear History.

Since the iCloud Birthdays calendar updates daily, changes to birthdays might not appear in the Calendars app until the next twenty-four hour period.

Microsoft Windows

Subsequently each footstep, check your contacts, calendars, or reminders.

Refresh Outlook

Click RefreshRefresh icon in Outlook.

Plough off iCloud Contacts and Calendar, then turn it back on

  1. Open up iCloud for Windows.
  2. Deselect Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, then click Apply.
  3. Wait a few seconds, select Mail service, Contacts, and Calendars, and so click Apply.
  4. Open Outlook.

Make sure the iCloud Outlook Add-in is active

In Outlook 2010 and afterward:

  1. Click the File menu.
  2. Click Options in the left panel.
  3. Click Add-Ins in the left panel of the Outlook Options window.
  4. Expect at the list of add together-ins in the Active Application Add-Ins section.
  5. Select the iCloud Outlook Add-in.

Learn how to manage Add-ins with Microsoft Outlook.

Check your default business relationship in Outlook

In Outlook 2010 and afterwards:

  1. Click the File carte.
  2. Select Info > Account Settings > Data Files.
  3. If iCloud is the default account in the Comments column, select a different account, and click Set as Default.

Restart your calculator

After you restart your reckoner, check if you lot stock-still the issue.

If you still need help

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