Apple in its infinite wisdom has declared refresh buttons about as verboten as a stylus or large batteries. So has anybody discovered some kind of workaround to refresh iPhone Calendar when it refuses to show up to date calendar information synced from Google calendar?
Work requires me to use Google calendar. While synchronization on the Mac is also buggy and slow, on the Mac Calendar there is at least cmd-r to force a sync which, in conjunction with copious amounts of patience, usually results in Calendar display being brought up to date. On iPhone, there is obviously no cmd-r and I cannot find any equivalent.
I have tried dragging to the bottom in Calendars and Inbox, which does indeed get a little spinner going, but still fails to get the calendar app to sync with the Google calendar. Surprisingly, not even a force quit and restart of Calendar app will get the job done. The web browser Google calendar tells me something (which I’ll assume is the ground truth), the Mac calendar can be refreshed to the point where it agrees, but the *%$&^# iPhone Calendar stubbornly refuses to update. Any other suggestions (apart from ditching Calendar app or using the browser instead)?
What is your settings / calendar / accounts / fetch new data (tap it) set to for the fetch schedule at the bottom? “Automatically” says “your iPhone will fetch new data in the background only when on power and on WiFi” so I’d think setting it to one of the scheduled settings would help with this.
Struggling again with this right now. I just cannot coax iPhone Calendar to update according to what Google calendar is showing. Not even an iPhone force restart managed to get this stupid forsaken app to refresh. Is there really no trick to force it to finally sync?
Nope. There really isn’t. Unfortunately, Google uses their own versions of email and calendar push technologies – and at the same time, Apple refuses to accept these “proprietary” methods like almost everyone else has, choosing to stick with absolute standards.
FWIW, I still see a significant delay with Mail app syncing with Gmail. And even when the new mails come in, deleting a Gmail email doesn’t always work permanently… sometimes the email re-appears in Mail’s inbox a few seconds later. It can sometimes take an hour for that same email to stop re-appearing in the inbox.
FWIW, I feel your pain. The only solution that works is to “choose a side” and not use the other – very frustrating to say the least.
iPhone Calendar stubbornly refuses to update. Any other suggestions (apart from ditching Calendar app or using the browser instead)?