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

 Learn what to do if your iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders aren't appearing on all the devices that you lot use with iCloud.

Try the steps for your device

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

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

iOS xiii and iPadOS or later

Later each pace, check your contacts, calendars, or reminders.

Restart the Contacts, Agenda, or Reminders app

  1. Shut the app.
  2. Render to your Home Screen.
  3. Wait near i minute, so open the app again.

Refresh your contacts and calendars

To refresh your contacts, open the Contacts app and swipe downward on the list. To refresh your contact groups, tap Groups in the upper-left corner, then swipe downward 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 use multiple groups or accounts in the Contacts or Calendars app, make sure that your iCloud Contacts and Calendars are set to appear:

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

Change how often your calendars update:

  1. Tap Settings, then tap Calendar.
  2. Tap Sync.
  3. If All Events is selected, choose a specific timeframe instead, like Events 1 Month Back. If a specific timeframe is selected, choose All Events instead.
  4. Return to your Home Screen.
  5. Look a few minutes, and then open the Calendar app. Tap the Calendars tab, and swipe downward to refresh.

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

Set iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders equally your default

If your contacts, calendars, and reminders are in iCloud, then iCloud automatically updates your information. If your data is in a 3rd-political party account, like Google or Yahoo, you tin modify your default business relationship to iCloud. Changing your default account to iCloud won't move your existing information from a third-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] option for any third-political party account, like Gmail or Yahoo.
  3. Brand sure All iCloud is selected.
  4. Tap Done to see your list of contacts. If you lot don't see the contact you're looking for, it's stored in some other account.
  5. If y'all take a copy of your contacts from a tertiary-party service in vCard format version iii.0 or after, you can import the contacts into iCloud.

Set iCloud as the default business relationship for your contacts:

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

Calendars and Reminders

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

Set an iCloud agenda every bit the default calendar:

  1. Tap Settings, then Agenda.
  2. Tap Default Calendar.
  3. Tap a agenda under iCloud to brand it your default.
    Set an iCloud calendar as the default calendar on iPhone

Gear up an iCloud reminders list every bit the default listing:

  1. Tap Settings, then Reminders.
  2. Tap Default List.
  3. Tap a listing under iCloud to make information technology your default.

Delete overdue reminders

  1. Open the Reminders app.
  2. Become to the Today view and check for any overdue reminders.
  3. If you find any, tap the empty circle to complete the reminder, or delete the reminder.

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

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macOS

Subsequently each step, bank check your contacts, calendars, or reminders.

Refresh your calendars

You tin can refresh your calendars from the Calendars app:

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

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

Check your default Agenda, Reminders, and Contacts account

If you shop and edit your events in iCloud instead of another place, like On My Mac, Exchange, or Google, then iCloud automatically updates your calendars. If y'all utilise multiple accounts on your Mac like iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo, make sure that iCloud is your default Agenda account:

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

If y'all store and edit your contacts in iCloud instead of some other 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 sure that iCloud is your default Contacts account:

  1. Open the Contacts app.
  2. Choose Contacts > Accounts.
  3. Click the iCloud tab and brand certain that yous're signed in with your Apple ID.

Every bit long as 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 you lot detect any, check the empty circumvolve to complete the reminder, or delete the reminder.

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

Restart your computer

After you restart your calculator, check if y'all fixed the issue.

iCloud.com

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

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

Since the iCloud Birthdays calendar updates daily, changes to birthdays might non appear in the Calendars app until the next 24-hour interval.

Microsoft Windows

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

Refresh Outlook

Click RefreshRefresh icon in Outlook.

Turn off iCloud Contacts and Calendar, and so turn it back on

  1. Open iCloud for Windows.
  2. Deselect Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, and so click Use.
  3. Look a few seconds, select Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, and so click Apply.
  4. Open Outlook.

Make sure the iCloud Outlook Add together-in is active

In Outlook 2010 and after:

  1. Click the File menu.
  2. Click Options in the left panel.
  3. Click Add-Ins in the left console of the Outlook Options window.
  4. Look at the list of add-ins in the Agile Application Add-Ins department.
  5. Select the iCloud Outlook Add-in.

Learn how to manage Add together-ins with Microsoft Outlook.

Bank check your default account in Outlook

In Outlook 2010 and later:

  1. Click the File menu.
  2. Select Info > Account Settings > Data Files.
  3. If iCloud is the default business relationship in the Comments cavalcade, select a different business relationship, and click Ready equally Default.

Restart your figurer

After you lot restart your estimator, check if you stock-still the effect.

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