Why an Event Appears on Your Phone but Not on the Web

Open the phone-only appointment and find its calendar name and account. It may be in a different cloud account or saved only on the device. Preserve its details before removing accounts or clearing app storage, especially if you created it offline.

Open the appointment and inspect its calendar

Look for the calendar name and associated account in the event details or edit screen. You may find a Google account, iCloud, Microsoft, a CalDAV service, or a device-only calendar.

An event in a local calendar will not automatically appear on Google Calendar or iCloud.com. An event in a second Google account will not appear on the website while you are signed in to the first.

Google's sync troubleshooting instructions recommend checking the account selected for new events.

Write down the details before changing anything, especially if the appointment was created offline.

The matching provider website

Open the website for the account shown on the appointment. Confirm the exact signed-in email address and make sure the relevant calendar is selected.

If the event appears there, the event has reached the server. The problem may be a different account on the other device, a hidden calendar, or a downstream copying arrangement.

If it does not appear there, focus on getting the phone's event to its own server. There is little value in reconnecting a separate destination service before that happens.

For iCloud, check that calendar syncing is enabled for the correct Apple Account. Apple recommends checking service status, account consistency, and device settings in its iCloud sync guide.

Device connection and calendar selection

Confirm the phone has an internet connection and the account is not requesting sign-in again. On Android, inspect the account's calendar sync setting as well as the calendar selected within the app.

For a CalDAV account, open the Android sync adapter as well as the calendar app. Its status may show a sign-in or background-update failure while old appointments remain visible.

If only one calendar is missing, enable it and retry the refresh. If several accounts are affected, also check the app's connectivity and storage.

Avoid clearing app data until recent events are safely on the server or otherwise preserved. Google's guide warns that clearing storage can lose unsynced information.

Move local events carefully

If the appointment is in the wrong calendar, use the app's supported move option where available. For important or numerous events, export or back them up before a larger migration.

After moving a small test event, confirm it on the intended provider's website. Do not delete the old version until you know the destination holds what you need.

Check guests and recurrence before moving real meetings. Moving an ordinary personal appointment is different from transferring an organized meeting or an entire series. Make a calendar backup before moving many events.

Also change the default calendar for future appointments if necessary. On iOS 18 and later, Settings → Apps → Calendar → Default Calendar controls that choice, as described in Apple's settings guide.

Copies after the source reaches the server

For a personal event copied to work through Avum, the original must first reach its Google, Outlook/Microsoft 365, iCloud, or CalDAV account. Then its Sync Rule can read it and maintain the work copy. Avum cannot read an appointment stored only on the phone.

Once the source website shows the event, inspect the rule and destination if copying is the remaining problem. Trace the source-to-destination update from that point.

For the same account on a second device, use native account sync. A copying service helps when you need events in a different account; it will not fix an appointment the phone has not sent yet.

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