ICloud – ?corrupted iCloud calendar

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My iCloud calendar has started behaving very strangely.
Syncing issues, randomly changing date, but the weirdest thing is, if i login to iCloud from any browser, and enter an event it gets moved 3 days back, and always to 23:00. This behaviour only happens for events after 25th October 2019, and before March 30th. So all my distant future events are wrong, and even entering new ones online from an external browser, the event immediately jumps 3 days back. I have tried signing out of iCloud on all my devices, but it didn't seem to make any difference?

Best Answer

I've been through similar issues (not the same issue ... but iCloud weirdness that I couldn't pin to any device). Turns out it is possible to wedge iCloud even though all your local devices are ok.

The fix:

  1. Take backups of everything you can (your computer, phone, iPad, etc.)

  2. Go to each device you own and log out of iCloud

It is critically important you log EVERY device out of iCloud because the fix relies on you having zero devices that are logged in.

  1. When NO devices are logged into iCloud, then (and only then) iCloud will dump it's cache for all data that it was syncing to your devices. If even a single device remains connected to iCloud ... this will not happen.

Pick your most reliable device and log back into iCloud. It will start syncing it's state (such as your calendar) to iCloud.

You can start re-reconnecting other devices back into iCloud one by one (I tend to do this very slowly to make sure each device has time to fully sync before I add the next device).

If the problem turns out to be corrupted iCloud cache (and this has happened to me), then this should fix it. If the problem is with a specific device then you may need further steps.

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