AW Calendar Events Complication Display

[MacGiver]

Hi all,
Quick question. Just got my AW5. It is 9:30pm, I have an event a 8:30am tomorrow. On my display complication it shows I am free. When i click on the calendar I can see the 8:30 event tomorrow. Question: how long before the next event is displayed on the screen? Any idea. I would have thought that at 9:30pm it would display tomorrow’s 8:30am event instead of showing I am free...

Thoughts?

 

[Itinj24]

Hi all,
Quick question. Just got my AW5. It is 9:30pm, I have an event a 8:30am tomorrow. On my display complication it shows I am free. When i click on the calendar I can see the 8:30 event tomorrow. Question: how long before the next event is displayed on the screen? Any idea. I would have thought that at 9:30pm it would display tomorrow’s 8:30am event instead of showing I am free...

Thoughts?

Maybe after midnight when the new day starts?

 

[cvstodes]

Hi all,
Quick question. Just got my AW5. It is 9:30pm, I have an event a 8:30am tomorrow. On my display complication it shows I am free. When i click on the calendar I can see the 8:30 event tomorrow. Question: how long before the next event is displayed on the screen? Any idea. I would have thought that at 9:30pm it would display tomorrow’s 8:30am event instead of showing I am free...

Thoughts?

This has been just straight up broken for me since upgrading to watchos 6, both on my Series 3 before upgrading to a Series 5 which I set up as a new watch. My watch's calendar app knows I have events, but the calendar complications say "no events today."

Doesn't matter if it's a calendar from my iPhone, one I make in iCloud, or something from a synced google calendar, the complication reports out nothing.

 

[deeddawg]

It just shows today's events -- not anything from tomorrow.

So tomorrow morning's event will begin showing at midnight as the new day begins.

 

[cvstodes]

It just shows today's events -- not anything from tomorrow.

This is never how the calendar complication worked prior to watchos 6.

Prior to watchos 6, my calendar complications would absolutely show tomorrow's events if they were within a certain amount of time (I forget how long... maybe 12 hours) ahead. If I looked at my watch before going to bed and I had an 8:00 am meeting, the complication would tell me about the meeting the night before, it didn't wait until midnight.

 

[MacGiver]

Actually the complication should always show the next incoming event I believe. I fixed my problem doing several times the following:
-Go to settings and password and accounts then select the calendar you need and toggle it off (and delete from my iPhone)
-Then go to the watch app, General and reset and reset sync data (you will get no notification confirmation that it is done...but it is)
-Turn off your watch and iPhone. Turn them on again and toggle back on the needed calendar

it did not work for a while but after maybe five times my complication was showing my next event.

This sure need a fix Apple!

 

[deeddawg]

This is never how the calendar complication worked prior to watchos 6.

Huh. I stand corrected. I described how it’s seemed to work to me, but just tested any you are correct - though showing more than 12 hours ahead, I see my 9am meeting now at 6:38pm.

Prior to watchos 6

Well, it’s apparently working for me on WatchOS 6.

 

[cvstodes]

Huh. I stand corrected. I described how it’s seemed to work to me, but just tested any you are correct - though showing more than 12 hours ahead, I see my 9am meeting now at 6:38pm.



Well, it’s apparently working for me on WatchOS 6.

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Yeah, I'm not sure what's doing it, although in my case, I suppose it could be this.

I have a Google Device Security installed on my personal phone to give my job limited access to the apps I need for work, which puts me in a similar boat to the posters in the thread I linked to. Hopefully someone sorts this out, as it worked without a hitch prior to watchos 6, and I relied on it heavily throughout my day. :/

@MacGiver , do you have a similar app installed on your phone?

 

[MacGiver]

Yeah, I'm not sure what's doing it, although in my case, I suppose it could be this.

I have a Google Device Security installed on my personal phone to give my job limited access to the apps I need for work, which puts me in a similar boat to the posters in the thread I linked to. Hopefully someone sorts this out, as it worked without a hitch prior to watchos 6, and I relied on it heavily throughout my day. :/

@MacGiver , do you have a similar app installed on your phone?

I actually a similar app. It is MobileIron an MDM installée by my company. But I would not say it is the cause of the issue.
I think this is iCloud synchronization which is not 100% reliable. I have another issue I could not fix, it is birthdays that are shown 4 or 5 time on my watch while it is there only once on my iPhone.

 

[cvstodes]

I actually a similar app. It is MobileIron an MDM installée by my company. But I would not say it is the cause of the issue.
I think this is iCloud synchronization which is not 100% reliable. I have another issue I could not fix, it is birthdays that are shown 4 or 5 time on my watch while it is there only once on my iPhone.

For me, removing the MDM got the complication working, reinstalling it broke it again. Not a perfect way of determining that this is completely at fault, but it seems unlikely that it’s unrelated.

 

[deeddawg]

For me, removing the MDM got the complication working, reinstalling it broke it again. Not a perfect way of determining that this is completely at fault, but it seems unlikely that it’s unrelated.

Datapoint in case it helps -- my calendars are from O365 (no MDM) and iCloud only. No issues with viewing upcoming appointments in WatchOS6.

 

[MacGiver]

Thanks for sharing that’s good to know. It is probably one part of the issue for some. I never had the issue with my AW3&4 eventhough I was on a MDM device.

 

[cvstodes]

Thanks for sharing that’s good to know. It is probably one part of the issue for some. I never had the issue with my AW3&4 eventhough I was on a MDM device.

Same here, the issue for me cropped up as soon as I upgraded to watchOS 6. It was fine on my Series 3 before the upgrade, and broke immediately upon boot to watchOS 6. It’s never worked on my Series 5, but that has always been on the current OS.

Again, not definitive proof of anything aside from ruling out a hardware issue, but there’s circumstantial evidence to suggest it’s how MDM is playing with watchOS 6.

 

[MacGiver]

By the way another question related to calendar complications. How do you change the calendar color on the AW. I have a “red” calendar on my iPhone but it shows purple on my AW. I have tried to change colors on my iPhone but it does not sync to the AW. Is that the same for you?

 

[cvstodes]

FWIW... going into the Passwords & Accounts setting on my iPhone, turning off the MDM managed calendar, confirming I wanted it deleted, then re-adding it made the watch complication work again. On that Apple Discussion thread, seems like it didn't work for everyone, but it did the trick for me. Fingers crossed that it sticks.

By the way another question related to calendar complications. How do you change the calendar color on the AW. I have a “red” calendar on my iPhone but it shows purple on my AW. I have tried to change colors on my iPhone but it does not sync to the AW. Is that the same for you?

When this happened to me, hitting Reset Sync Data in the Watch App did the trick.

 

[MacGiver]

When this happened to me, hitting Reset Sync Data in the Watch App did the trick.

Just tried and i am back again with no more meeting on the complication while when i hit it i can see the events in the AW calendar... This is just a nightmare. I have now i guess to delete the MDM managed calendar and hope it will come back again. I needed to do it 5 times a least to get the events back on the complication. Please Apple have this thing working!!!!

 

[MacGiver]

OK... So I deleted the MDM calendar and reactivated it again. The calendar is back on my complication and visible. But I still has the wrong color (red on my iPhone, purple on my AW). I think I know why... when I reactivate the calendar on my iPhone it is by default poping up as purple (I don't know why) so I just modify the color on my iPhone to red.... But I guess the AW is synching the very first color that it sees... and I guess again that due to the MDM crap thing... It stays stuck with that very first color and changing it on my iPhone won't replicate on the AW. I guess I will leave with it. 🤬

 

[mbhforum]

I tried everything. I’m on my companies Microsoft InTune MDM as a data point. Apple Support told me this is a known bug and will be addressed soon....

 

[MacGiver]

I tried everything. I’m on my companies Microsoft InTune MDM as a data point. Apple Support told me this is a known bug and will be addressed soon....

Thanks for sharing, this is encouraging... Just a bit skeptical about the genius on the phone having this kind of détails... Time will tell and hopefully soon will be soon... Meaning 13.2

 

[gymratjudy]

Actually the complication should always show the next incoming event I believe. I fixed my problem doing several times the following:
-Go to settings and password and accounts then select the calendar you need and toggle it off (and delete from my iPhone)
-Then go to the watch app, General and reset and reset sync data (you will get no notification confirmation that it is done...but it is)
-Turn off your watch and iPhone. Turn them on again and toggle back on the needed calendar

it did not work for a while but after maybe five times my complication was showing my next event.

This sure need a fix Apple!

Thanks, worked for me after the first try. Going to screenshot your post just to have it handy in case it happens again.

 

[MacGiver]

Thanks, worked for me after the first try. Going to screenshot your post just to have it handy in case it happens again.

Cool. One question, do you have the same color on your calendar on your iPhone and AW? Is you iPhone managed by your company?

 

[gymratjudy]

Cool. One question, do you have the same color on your calendar on your iPhone and AW? Is you iPhone managed by your company?

Red on both and no as to manage by company.