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 use with iCloud.

Try the steps for your device

If yous still need assist, try the steps for your device below.

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

iOS xiii and iPadOS or later

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

Restart the Contacts, Calendar, or Reminders app

  1. Close the app.
  2. Return to your Home Screen.
  3. Wait virtually one infinitesimal, and so open up 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, then swipe down on the list.

To refresh your calendars:

  1. Open the Agenda 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 lot use 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 certain 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, and so 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. Wait a few minutes, then open the Calendar app. Tap the Calendars tab, and swipe down to refresh.

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

Set 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 data is in a third-political party business relationship, like Google or Yahoo, y'all can change your default account to iCloud. Changing your default business relationship to iCloud won't move your existing information from a tertiary-party service to iCloud.

Contacts

To meet which business relationship 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 tertiary-party business relationship, like Gmail or Yahoo.
  3. Brand certain All iCloud is selected.
  4. Tap Washed to meet your listing of contacts. If you don't see the contact y'all're looking for, it's stored in another account.
  5. If you take a copy of your contacts from a third-party service in vCard format version three.0 or later, y'all can import the contacts into iCloud.

Set up iCloud as the default account for your contacts:

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

Calendars and Reminders

To cheque which business relationship your calendars are in, open up the Agenda app, so tap the Calendars tab.

Set an iCloud calendar equally the default calendar:

  1. Tap Settings, then Agenda.
  2. Tap Default Agenda.
  3. Tap a calendar under iCloud to make information technology your default.
    Set an iCloud calendar as the default calendar on iPhone

Set an iCloud reminders listing as the default listing:

  1. Tap Settings, then Reminders.
  2. Tap Default List.
  3. Tap a list under iCloud to make it your default.

Delete overdue reminders

  1. Open the Reminders app.
  2. Get to the Today view and check for any overdue reminders.
  3. If y'all 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.

Forcefulness sync Calendar data on Apple Watch

macOS

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

Refresh your calendars

Y'all can refresh your calendars from the Calendars app:

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

Since the iCloud Birthdays agenda updates hourly, you lot might non see changes to birthdays in the Contacts or Calendars app for an hour.

Check your default Calendar, Reminders, and Contacts account

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

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

If you store and edit your contacts in iCloud instead of another place, like On My Mac, Exchange, or Google, so iCloud automatically updates your contacts. If you utilise multiple accounts on your Mac similar iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo, make sure that iCloud is your default Contacts business relationship:

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

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

Delete completed or overdue reminders

  1. Open the Reminders app.
  2. Become to the Today view and cheque for any overdue reminders.
  3. If yous find 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 estimator

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

iCloud.com

If all your updates don't appear or you 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 another app on iCloud.com, like Postal service. Then go dorsum to the Contacts, Calendar, or Reminders app.
  3. Sign out of iCloud.com, then sign back in.
  4. Clear your browsing history. Choose History > Clear History.

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

Microsoft Windows

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

Refresh Outlook

Click RefreshRefresh icon in Outlook.

Turn off iCloud Contacts and Agenda, and so turn it dorsum on

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

Make certain the iCloud Outlook Add-in is agile

In Outlook 2010 and later:

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

Learn how to manage Add-ins with Microsoft Outlook.

Cheque your default business relationship in Outlook

In Outlook 2010 and later:

  1. Click the File carte du jour.
  2. Select Info > Business relationship 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 figurer

After you restart your calculator, check if y'all stock-still the issue.

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