“New Event” has no title in iPad Pro calendar

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“New Event” has no title in iPad Pro calendar

A little over a year ago I decided to begin moving from Android to Apple’s OS, and bought an iPad Pro 12.9 to initiate the transition. About two months ago I purchased an iPhone 16 Pro to start transitioning from my Android phone to the iPhone. The rep at the Apple store, where I purchased my iPhone, moved everything from my Android to my new iPhone. Some days later, I saw thousands of entries in my Apple calendar that were named “New Event” but none of them are recurring events nor is there a Title when you try to edit the “New Event”. Subsequently, I would have to physically delete over 10,000 of these “ghost” events individually. I called Apple support but they couldn’t resolve this issue.

Has anyone ever experienced this, and if so, were you able to delete these en masse, or did you find another solution?

TIA….Mark

iPad Pro

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 11:32 AM

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Answer 1

6x6

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Nov 9, 2024 6:13 AM in response to Onaquest_

If you are absolutely sure that all the events named “New Event” are spurious, you could create a shortcut in the Shortcuts application to delete them all:

Open the Shortcuts application;
Add the Find Calendar Events action.
Add the Remove Events action
Set the Find Calendar Events action as follows:

Run the shortcut by tapping the ▶︎ icon.

I’d recommend backing up the iPhone before running this shortcut.

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Answer 2

6x6

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Nov 5, 2024 4:08 PM in response to Onaquest_

On iPhone and iPad, the Calendar app can use multiple calendars. They are usually using different colors to differentiate them.

Do you have any real events in the calendar (ie same "color") that shows the "New Event" events? What is the name of the calendar associated with the color of the "New Event" events? On the iPhone you can find out by tapping "Calendars" at the bottom of the screen in Calendars.

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Onaquest_ Author

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Nov 9, 2024 4:07 AM in response to Onaquest_

We were planning to move to IOS for our entire household but after this fiasco, we’re not going to move the remaining android and Microsoft items we currently have. I’m very disappointed in Apple’s inability to resolve this issue…

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Answer 4

Onaquest_ Author

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Nov 5, 2024 11:00 PM in response to 6x6

Thank you, but Apple support had looked at that already. Unfortunately this seems to be beyond Apple’s ability to resolve it…

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