Duplicate iCal entries in iPhone after iCloud sync

I, too, just updated to ios5 on iPhone. I am getting duplicate entries in iCal and Reminders ONLY on my iPhone. I have Macbook Air.

I stopped syncing through iTunes. When I turned on "iCloud sync" for Calendar, it said it was going to "merge" the calendar events, but instead duplicated some (NOT ALL) of them.

How can I fix this?
Thanks!

You need uncheck the local calendars "From my Mac" and have "iCloud" calendar sync as your default. From memory it is in settings>mail,contacts,calendar> and then scroll down til you find the calendar settings.

Do you mean for me to do this on my iPhone? There is no box for me to uncheck "from my Mac". Settings just lists iCloud as the sync method already.

Btw, I have a Verizon iPhone 4 with ios 5.

What calendar accounts do you have listed when you launch the Calendar app on your phone and press the calendar button top left?

Oh! For the first time ever I see an "all iCloud" account listed. Then I have 4 others calendars listed below that. (I only use two). Should I uncheck the other four calendars?

No. That didn't work. If I uncheck any of the calendars, iCloid calendar also automatically gets unchecked.

Do you have accounts listed under the iPhone tab?

Open up the Calendar app > Click 'Calendars' in the top left

That will then open up the settings for which calendars to display. Then just make sure 'All iCloud' is selected.

EDIT: I just realised that Pendlewitch told you to do the very same. If that didn't work then I'm out of answers.

I'm not sure what you mean.

When you launch the Calendar app in the top left is a button called Calendars. If there are calendars listed under iPhone then you need to uncheck them and make sure all the iCloud calendars are checked.

No worries Chuckoir it's taking us all a while to get this right!

When you wrote "Do you have accounts listed under the iPhone tab?" I'm not sure where to look.

Clicking the 'Calendars' button


Will lead you to this screen...



As you can see, I have 'All iCloud' checked. You should be able to uncheck whichever ones you don't want to display.

Yes. That's what I have. But I still have duplicate entries on my iPhone!

When I said I didn't know where to look, I was responding to Pendlewitch.

I see. In iTunes do you still have Sync iCal Calendars checked?

No. I unchecked that.
Also, as I said before,if I uncheck any calendars such as home, the all iCloud unchecks by itself !?!?!

Ok in Ical preferences what is your default calendar in the General settings and is it ticked against iCloud also what is the account called in Accounts, it should be something like iCloud CalDAV

Where I'm going is you may have duplicate CalDAV accounts and you need to back up and delete them.

This is the copy text from a previous thread I was involved in so try this.

"Easier still.... I didn't find a duplicate account under iCal prefs. So I went to THE CLOUD, opened up my calendar and unchecked the duplicates. You can tell immediately if you're unchecking the right one because your events will disappear if you're wrong. Of course, if that happens, just check it again. Once you uncheck the RIGHT duplicate.... click on EDIT and delete. Same goes for Reminders."

Voila! Open up the iOS devices, and watch THE CLOUD push changes to them. No more duplicates."

With thanks to Mac2Dream for the above.

If this doesn't work I'm stumped.
Liam

Ok. I'm assuming you meant for me to look on my MacBook. I don't have it here at work. I don't think I have any duplicate calendars.
When u say "I went to the Cloud". How did u do that? I tried going to iCloud.com for my iPhone but I couldn't find out any info. It just went to a page telling me how to set up the cloud, which I thought I already did.
Btw, now I have some calendar entries in TRIPLICATE!

I'm not sure my reply was posted:

Ok. I'm assuming you meant for me to look on my MacBook. I don't have it here at work. I don't think I have any duplicate calendars.
When u say "I went to the Cloud". How did u do that? I tried going to iCloud.com for my iPhone but I couldn't find out any info. It just went to a page telling me how to set up the cloud, which I thought I already did.
Btw, now I have some calendar entries in TRIPLICATE!

lindoboe said:

I'm not sure my reply was posted:

Ok. I'm assuming you meant for me to look on my MacBook. I don't have it here at work. I don't think I have any duplicate calendars.
When u say "I went to the Cloud". How did u do that? I tried going to iCloud.com for my iPhone but I couldn't find out any info. It just went to a page telling me how to set up the cloud, which I thought I already did.
Btw, now I have some calendar entries in TRIPLICATE!

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Hi,
I can understand your frustration.

Apple - Support - iCloud - System Status

This may help. Perhaps you might want to consider going the iTunes route...I've found with Apple that resistance is futile. I upgraded to iOS5 via my iPhone, then discovered I needed Lion, then discovered I needed iPhoto11 for the photo stream bit.
Your iCloud ID should be the same as your iTunes ID.