Hi - since downloading ios26 last night, I’ve noticed that the calendar search facility no longer works on iPhone or iPad. It is not even working with new appointments entered since the update was installed. Has anyone else experienced this and can someone assist please. It is a function I use regularly. Thanks in advance.
iPhone 15
Sorry to hear it still isn't working after the IOS 26 upgrade for some of you. I did find that I was having a search issue (after it was resolved). But the problem was on my end: I had selected only 2 calendars to search specific entries and failed to return to 'all' calendars. Then later when I did a search I couldn't find something I was looking for but remembered I had only 2 choices selected, after I changed the search to all...... VIOLA everything was back. This was on my iPhone 16+ and may MacBook Air M4. Maybe that will help someone.
I waited until Apple issued 26.1. Before that iOS 18.7 and previous updates all allowed search to work in the calendar.
On my iPhone 15 with iOS 26.1 I cannot find where to select “All” calendars. I looked in “Settings/Apps/Calendar” and I also opened my calendar and selected the calendar icon in the lower right corner. I have checkmarks on all three iCloud items. No dice.
Dave_HH, how do I choose which calendars I want?
If so: on my MacBook Air M4: click on calendar, on the left side of the screen it should show the calendars options, to choose specific one/ones to activate you'll have them checked and uncheck the other ones.
If they are not showing you should see a calendar icon at the top left of the screen beside an open folder icon. Click on the calendar icon and all of your choices should appear on the left along with other and a small calendar at the bottom.
On my iPhone 16+ IOS 26.1 the calendar and folder icons are at the bottom of the calendar screen on the lower right. You'll click on the calendar icon and it will show which calendars you have active.
Trust this helps
I’ve got the same problem. I am a disabled vet and I need my calendar lists all my VA appointments. I make them as VA then whatever appointment is so I can or used to be able to just search VA and all my A appointments pop up.
I need to be able to use calendar to do this search.
I tried this. Prior to trying it absolutely nothing would come up with search, after trying it I type in one letter and it pops up three or four things. None of them are any later than 2018. So weird.
I put an appointment in yesterday that had the name Annie in it and I go to search for Annie and I get zilch. I hope they fix this soon. I take elderly people who can no longer drive to Dr appointments and searching every single day for their appointments among all the other personal things of my own is time-consuming and annoying.
Replying to my own comment to say that this problem was resolved for a while, but it looks like 26.1 is giving my iPhone 16 problems. I have tried turning search on and off. Restarting the phone. I’m not getting any results at all. I keep track of three different people’s doctors appointments and it is really important that this function works for me.
11/14/25: Sorry for the continued problems. I did update on my MacBook Air M4 to Tahoe 26.1 and my iPhone 16+ to IOS 26.1 and have verified on both devices that the calendar search is working for me. Hopefully each of you will get yours resolved as well.
same here
iphone AND ipad
tryed every hint i can find (disable sync, hardreset and so on....)
nothing helps
nope
not for me
Thank you. It works!
Worked for me too
Same on iPhone or iPad versions AS WELL AS MacOS.
Worked for me too. Thanks for this!! I don’t know why it was broken in 26. But this is the fix!
No solutions working for me. This needs to be fixed asap please.
Is this for macOS? I don’t have calendar under settings.
On the iPhone go to settings and scroll all the way to bottom of page and select apps. Calendar is under apps.
Calendar search facility no longer working since ios 26 upgrade
