no access to Calendars?!? PANIC!

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I have two iPads on the same account, and I was working on them very late last night. Idk what I did, but this morning there's no data in my calendar!. So I press Calendars. There's nothing there except a message saying it doesn't have access to my calendars & fix it in privacy settings. But in my privacy settings, I don't see anything I can do! Could someone PLEASE!, tell me how to get my calendars back? Thanks in advance. It's an iPad Air 1st gen running 8.1.3

Julie

 

[J. A.]

Welcome to iPF, Julie!

It's possible that you enabled restrictions for your Calendar app.

Go to Settings - General - Restrictions - Privacy - Calendars. Make sure "Allow Changes" is checkmarked.

Then look at the account that you use for your calendar entries. Make sure the calendar is enabled there.
Force close the Calendar app:
Double tap the Home button to show the multitasking bar and slide the picture above the Calendar app icon towards the top of the screen.

Open the app again afterwards. If you still can't see the events you added, tap "Calendar" at the bottom. This will show all the calendars you could use in the app. Make sure the one you need is checkmarked.

Drag down the calendars to force them to refresh. The spinning wheel should appear:

Let it finish refreshing. If the events still don't appear, force close the app once more and take a look at it again.

Hope that helps.

 

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Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, there is no Privacy under Settings/General/Restrictions. Privacy, in IOS 8.1.3, is in its own category (Settings/Privacy). But I tried to keep going from there. I can go to Privacy, Calendars. But when I get there, this is the ONLY thing on the screen: "Applications that have requested access to your calendars will appear here", and as I said, it's otherwise blank. I haven't allowed any apps access to my calendars, becase I don't need them to.

But you said, Accounts, which I couldn't find, so I went searching, and somewhere along the way, I fixed the problem. I hope it didn't happen again, because I still don't know what I did to mess it up OR fix it. But, my datas back, so I'm happy again.

Thank you very much for trying to help. I guess all I needed was some sleep and a new perspective.

Julie

 

[J. A.]

I should have added a screenshot to show you what it looks like.
There is Privacy in Settings - General - Restrictions. You have to scroll down to get there:

Maybe you need it sometime.

However, I'm glad you got back your data. Hopefully this won't happen again. And I agree, sleeping over a problem sometimes helps solving it.

 

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Idk what device or version if IOS you have, but it's not the same as I have. Even though my problem is fixed, I wanted to see if I'd missed something. I did not. I'm using an iPad Air, 1st generation, wifi only, with IOS 8.1.3. The screenshot you're showing is so completely different from top to bottom compared to mine, I've gotta know WHY. It's making me crazy. I hope you respond! I like mysteries, but I can't solve this one alone.

Julie

 

[fig4159]

BTW, here's what MY screenshot looks like, from Settings - General - Restrictions. Just to prove That I may be a noob, at least to Apple, but I'm NOT nutz. ;-)

 

[J. A.]

First of all, something very important:
If you post a screenshot, do not show your iCloud ID. Use an app like Skitch to hide it, or crop the part where it's visible.

The difference between our screenshots is: you've enabled restrictions, I didn't. And my iPad is in landscape mode.
And here are my screenshots, to show you where Privacy is. You opened Restrictions, but didn't scroll down.
Here's what we see when we open Restrictions:

And now, scrolling down:

Privacy appears. Scrolling further:

And once more:

 

[scifan57]

BTW, here's what MY screenshot looks like, from Settings - General - Restrictions. Just to prove That I may be a noob, at least to Apple, but I'm NOT nutz. ;-)

I've deleted your screenshot as it included your full iCloud email address. You're welcome to repost the screenshot if you obscure the email address.

 

[fig4159]

I've deleted your screenshot as it included your full iCloud email address. You're welcome to repost the screenshot if you obscure the email address.

I didn't even think of it, but I didn't care anyway. If there's a rule against it, sorry about that!

 

[fig4159]

First of all, something very important:
If you post a screenshot, do not show your iCloud ID. Use an app like Skitch to hide it, or crop the part where it's visible.

The difference between our screenshots is: you've enabled restrictions, I didn't. And my iPad is in landscape mode.
And here are my screenshots, to show you where Privacy is. You opened Restrictions, but didn't scroll down.
Here's what we see when we open Restrictions:
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And now, scrolling down:
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Privacy appears. Scrolling further:
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And once more:
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Thanks. I'm not getting much sleep lately. Sick kid. Normally, I'm REALLY good with tech and puzzles.

Aha! I was looking for Privacy to be a category, as in one of the many options with which I could actually DO something. But it's just a heading. (For lack of better terminology.)

If I didn't love my grandson so much, I'd never gave gotten the damn iPad - now, we have 3. All because he really wanted some (educational) games that weren't available for the 6! Android tablets we already had. I'm in techno trouble, he's only 4 and just this year we've added this iPad Air 1 to his ASUS Infinity, Kindle HD & the (POS) Leapfrog His mothers family bought him. My little geek-in-training, he's more of an app junkie than I am! LOL