Edited an event but my phone's calendar has not updated
What you are seeing
I edited an event but my phone's calendar has not updated.
#Why it happens
Refresh is deliberately staged: a rebuild is scheduled 60 seconds after the edit, the edge serves a cached copy for up to 15 minutes, and the calendar app itself polls on its own schedule (the feed suggests hourly).
#What to do
Wait and refresh in the calendar app. If nothing at all is arriving, remove and re-add the subscription. Note that an edit to a calendar nobody has polled recently is skipped and rebuilt cold on the next poll.
#Settings involved
Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Base Timezone | Calendar Configuration panel | "Set the timezone by which events are co-ordinated. Note that events are shown in the timezone of the user viewing the calendar." In practice it pre-fills the event create/edit form only. The grid always draws events in |
In-calendar Events | Calendar Configuration panel → Events | "Show in-calendar user made events". The events people create and save inside this calendar. |
Native page dates | Calendar Configuration panel → Events | "Show events from date macros on pages". Confluence's own date chips scraped off the calendar's source pages. |
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Event macro title | - | - |
Saved event name | - | A 3-character event title is rejected on save. The same 4-character floor is why .ics import skips very short titles. |
Saved event description | - | - |
#Related
Subscribed calendar has not changed for days even though the calendar is active
A feed left unpolled for 3 days has its cache cleared and rebuilds cold on the next poll;
Person removed from the space could still see the calendar feed for a while
The subscriber's permission is re-checked at most once an hour on the cached path.
Everything else
The rest of this family.
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