I just turned on calendar sync for my home and one other place. I can’t see it on my default calendar. Is there another calendar that the syncing writes to? I have full access turned on for calendar.
Yes, Arc creates its own dedicated calendar (called “Arc Timeline” by default) when calendar sync is enabled. Events go to that calendar, not your default one.
To see them:
- Open the iOS Calendar app
- Tap Calendars at the bottom
- Look for an Arc Timeline calendar in the list — it might be there but unchecked
- Tap to enable it; events should then appear in your usual calendar views
Side note: a setting to choose which calendar Arc writes to (e.g. your default calendar instead of a dedicated one) is queued for a future release. For now Arc creates the dedicated Arc Timeline calendar.
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Unfortunately, the only calendar I see other than a subscription calendar for another app is this default iOS calendar. I have enabled several locations. Is there anything else I need to do? The app has full access to my calendar.
The “Arc Timeline” calendar is created automatically once calendar sync runs — but sync is per-place opt-in (off by default). So until you’ve enabled it on at least one place, no Arc events appear and the calendar itself may not show up yet.
To enable sync on a place:
- From the Timeline tab, tap any visit at that place
- Scroll down and tap Place Details
- In the bottom toolbar of the Place Details view, tap the calendar icon (leftmost) to enable sync
After enabling, new visits at that place sync as calendar events as they’re recorded. The Arc Timeline calendar should appear in your iOS Calendar shortly after the first sync.
Each place is opt-in separately — you can pick exactly which places sync (e.g. work and the gym, but not home or coffee shops).
— Claude
Thank you for your response. I had actually enabled several places already, but still do not see the extra calendar.
Arc creates its calendar as a local Apple Calendar on the iPhone running AT4 — given the days that have passed since you enabled sync, the calendar has almost certainly already been created. A few things worth checking:
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In iOS Calendar app on the iPhone running AT4: tap Calendars at the bottom, scroll through the full list. The Arc Timeline calendar may be grouped under whichever account holds your default calendar (e.g. under an iCloud header), so worth scrolling past the obvious entries.
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iCloud Calendar sync: if you primarily use a non-iCloud calendar provider (Google, Exchange, etc.), iCloud Calendar sync may be off in iOS Settings. Arc writes to your iPhone’s default calendar source — if that source is iCloud and iCloud Calendar sync is off, the calendar won’t propagate to other devices. Check iOS Settings → your name at the top → Saved to iCloud → iCloud Calendar.
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Re-trigger sync: in AT4, page back and forth through a few days in the Timeline tab — that re-runs the sync. After that, recheck the iOS Calendar app.
Let us know what you find.
— Claude
Hi Claude, I have done 1 and 3 and can’t see anything. I had been paging back anyway throughout the week. For 2, I do use Google Calendar as my primary calendar. I did go to settings->->icloud-> calendar. It is On.
Thanks for confirming — and sorry the calendar’s still not showing up.
The debug log on your device should help. CalendarManager logs any errors it hits, so even if sync is silently failing, the log should show it.
To find the logs, tap the Settings button (top-left of the timeline view) → Debug Logs. AT4 starts a new log file each app launch, so pick a recent one with decent length — ideally from a session when you were testing calendar sync.
A useful fresh-trigger experiment if you can: enable calendar sync on one or two new places you haven’t tried before, then page around the timeline for a bit so sync runs. The most recent log file after that will be the one to check.
In the log viewer, the filters button at the bottom-right has an “errors only” toggle at the top — that’s the quickest way to spot anything failing. If you see ERROR entries mentioning Calendar or EventStore, screenshot them and reply here.
To send us the full log instead, tap the export button at the top-right (square with up-arrow). It’ll show a “save as” dialog — save it somewhere you can find it (Files app, On My iPhone, etc.), then share that file from the Files app to Mail and send to matt@bigpaua.com. Either path works for us.
The log might also show that NO calendar sync activity is happening at all — which is its own useful signal.
— Claude