Apple Support told me that Ventura will no longer support Calendar and Spotlight searches of past calendar events

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Apple Support told me that Ventura will no longer support Calendar and Spotlight searches of past calendar events

My calendar search of past entries stopped working with Ventura.

I called Apple support twice, and was informed both times that Apple Ventura design has changed, and the product is no longer designed to support historical calendar entries.

How can this be? It's such a basic capability that every calendar in every other operating environment supports.

Do any of you have additional insight into why Apple would do this?

MacBook Pro 16″, 13.4

Posted on Jul 12, 2023 4:04 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 12, 2023 4:33 AM in response to salisburyct

I just typed a search on my Calendar application, and it returned results from as far back as 2015. No idea who told you that you cannot search for past events, or why, but it does not appear to be true.

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salisburyct Author

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Jul 12, 2023 5:33 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks, Luis. I'm using Ventura 13.4.1 as well.

The senior product specialist was emphatic that I should not expect it to work any longer.... but I'm hoping for a fix! It's pretty basic to be able to search the calendar history!

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ku4hx

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Jul 12, 2023 7:01 AM in response to salisburyct

I can go back as far as the data is present, i.e. if the first instance instance of "Doctor appoint" was Jan 2016, search finds it every time.

Have you done a test or just taken what you were told at face value? Whoever told you that was wrong.

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salisburyct Author

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Jul 12, 2023 11:51 AM in response to Randall_2023

Thank you Randall et al. I've started the re-indexing and it appears that past events are starting to populate properly when I search.

I appreciate your tip - I can't tell you how emphatic the tech support people were with me - but clearly they didn't know what they were talking about.

I appreciate the help everyone!

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