In this guide, we will show you various methods to fix the issue of the Apple Calendar not working or lagging on iOS 15/15.1. The calendar app from the Cupertino giants provides quite a few nifty features up its sleeves. it’s an online cloud backup service, the ability to sync with other third-party calendars such as Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange Server, and its multiple calendar view are just some of the noteworthy features. However, as of now, all this is just looking good on paper.
If we keep our focus on the latest iOS builds, then the app’s implementation has been far from perfect. Users were already plagued with a plethora of performance issues related to the Calendar app on iOS 15. And since then, the issues have also taken an increment with the increment in build number to iOS 15.1. As of now, the Apple Calendar app is undergoing frequent crashes, lagging quite a lot, and facing sync issues as well. Apart from that, users are also unable to see events associated with a shared calendar on their Apple devices.
Moreover, error messages such as: “The server responded with an error”, “The request for account ‘iCloud’ Failed”, and “The server responded with ‘500’ to operation” only make the matter worse. So if you are also getting bugged with any of these issues, then this guide is shall come in handy. In this tutorial, we will show you numerous methods to fix the Apple Calendar not working or lagging issues on iOS 15/15.1. Follow along.
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How to Fix Apple Calendar Not Working/Lagging on iOS 15.1
Do note that there’s no universal fix as such. You will have to try out each of the below-mentioned workarounds and see which one works best in your favor. So keeping that in mind, let’s get started.
FIX 1: Re-Install Calendar
Many users were able to rectify this issue by deleting the calendar and then accessing it from App Store. So try this workaround and then check if it fixes the underlying issue or not.
FIX 2: Use the Display Orientation Hack
A pretty nifty workaround when it comes to fixing the missing calendar events, it requires you to change the device’s orientation to landscape and then back to portrait. As soon as it comes back to portrait mode, all your calendar events will re-appear and the issue stands fixed!
So with this, we round off this guide on how you could fix the issue of the Apple Calendar not working or lagging on iOS 15/15.1. This is a developing story and we will keep on adding more workarounds as soon as we get hold of the same. In the meantime, you could also drop in your opinion/tips regarding the same in the comments section below.
Stephen Woodhouse
The landscape/portrait trick doesn’t work for me, neither on my iphone 11 or ipay air 2019.