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Fred Zed

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Aug 15, 2019
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Is there anyway for me to find out how a calendar entry was entered into my iPhone calendar? First thing I checked is to see if the entry was repeated from last year which it wasn’t.
 

NoBoMac

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Jul 1, 2014
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Don't think so.

Closest thing I can think of is to export the calendar the event is in as an ICS file. You can then pull that file up in your text editor of choice, locate the event, and then look at the "CREATED" value for the event. Will let you know when but not how.

If have a Mac, easiest there.

For example, a trimmed down event of mine:

Code:
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20201124T225623Z
RELATED-TO;RELTYPE=X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET:22A56546-A9D1-40F1-A2
 7E-47312576F69C
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;UNTIL=20210404T150000Z
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Hike
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:CE67E3CF-6DEB-436D-AD67-DA82723961AE
END:VEVENT
 

Fred Zed

macrumors 603
Original poster
Aug 15, 2019
5,820
6,517
Upstate NY . Was FL.
Don't think so.

Closest thing I can think of is to export the calendar the event is in as an ICS file. You can then pull that file up in your text editor of choice, locate the event, and then look at the "CREATED" value for the event. Will let you know when but not how.

If have a Mac, easiest there.

For example, a trimmed down event of mine:

Code:
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20201124T225623Z
RELATED-TO;RELTYPE=X-CALENDARSERVER-RECURRENCE-SET:22A56546-A9D1-40F1-A2
 7E-47312576F69C
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;UNTIL=20210404T150000Z
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Hike
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:CE67E3CF-6DEB-436D-AD67-DA82723961AE
END:VEVENT
Thank you 🙏🏼 I’ll give it shot via the MacBook.
 

NoBoMac

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Staff member
Jul 1, 2014
6,285
4,973
Add: might need to do multiple searches for the event as there might be multiple entries for same event. Just to be sure.
 
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