iPhone Calendar Unable to Add Event

[Stuntman06]

My wife's iPhone calendar app has a + symbol to add a new calendar event. My mother-in-law's iPhone calendar app does not. Both have an iPhone 4S. Is there some setting on the iPhone that I need to set to enable the calendar app on my mother-in-law's phone to allow her to add an event?

 

[antman2295]

I won't swear to this, but I think I remember helping someone with this issue. If you go into mail I believe, and turn off what ever calender is trying to sync, then it should give you the option to add an event to your calender.

 

[CoachStall]

what a headache!

 

[Stuntman06]

I won't swear to this, but I think I remember helping someone with this issue. If you go into mail I believe, and turn off what ever calender is trying to sync, then it should give you the option to add an event to your calender.

That sounds plausible. She does have a Gmail account. I think I might have synced her calendar with her Gmail calendar. I'll check it out the next time I see her. Does this mean that I cannot sync her iPhone calendar with her Gmail calendar without disabling the ability to add new events via her iPhone calendar?

 

[BrianBaughn]

Make sure that the calendar is subscribed to in an editable way. I have a few read-only calendars on my phone.

 

[Stuntman06]

Make sure that the calendar is subscribed to in an editable way. I have a few read-only calendars on my phone.

How can I tell whether or not a calendar is read-only?

 

[BrianBaughn]

If it's Gmail and you add the account as "exchange" (search for how-to), it will definitely not be "read-only".