iPhone Why does the calendar only go back 2 years max?

[Benz63amg]

I want to add an event to March 2 in 2018(I’m organizing life events into the calendar on my iPhone and March 2 in 2018 was the closing day for my home purchase and I want to put it into the calendar on my iPhone) but when I add the event to March 2 2018 and click save no such event gets saved to my Calendar, am I doing something wrong?

 

[C DM]

Is this an iCloud calendar or some other one (Google, etc.)? Have you tried adding it from the web?

 

[Benz63amg]

Is this an iCloud calendar or some other one (Google, etc.)? Have you tried adding it from the web?

No its the built in calendar in iOS 13, i dont use icloud for my calendar. its all local on the device

 

[EM2013]

Just tried adding event in 2017 and worked for me.

 

[NaimNut]

Dude, Cloud the calendar.

 

[Benz63amg]

Dude, Cloud the calendar.

Will that solve my issue?

 

[NaimNut]

Will that solve my issue?

Yes
Using Outlook.com in iOS Apple Calendar App

 

[Benz63amg]

Yes
Using Outlook.com in iOS Apple Calendar App

So I just tried to toggle that setting on and it’s prompting me with a question on whether I want to “Merge” data from my local calendar? Huh? How can I clear whatever calendar data I have on iCloud (I might have had that setting enabled sometime in the past) and I don’t want any old calendar data to suddenly merge into my current calendar data if I click “Merge” for enabling iCloud for Calendar

 

[NaimNut]

I’m no iOS guru.
I simply cloud everything and when setting up my devices, have them access my cloud accounts. Nothing stored local. Everything synced (contacts, calendar, email, photos & files) to all devices, regardless of platform, perfectly.

You may have to take an initial data entry hit when setting up a cloud based calendar.

Hopefully others here with more iOS knowledge will chime in.