Shawnese, That is the more useful of the two answers, and it closes off the easy explanation for good.
A different date every time means nothing is pulling the view to a fixed point. No stuck date, no event sitting back there, no saved spot. The app isn't holding a date. It's failing to settle on one. It comes up somewhere in your past and where it lands is wherever it happened to land that time. That's behaviour inside the app as it starts, and it isn't a setting, which is exactly why your pass through all of them turned up nothing. Stop looking for something you changed. There's nothing there to find. Which makes the browser test the whole question now, and it's the one piece I still don't have. If that same account opens on today in a browser, your calendar is fine and the fault is that one app on that one phone, and that's a bug to report rather than a setting to change. If the browser does it too, the account is in it and that's a different conversation. Worth knowing either way: the iPhone's own Calendar app will show this same Google account, same events, nothing to move over. So you aren't stuck with the app that can't settle. I won't guess you through adding it, somebody here will give you that part exactly. When you get a minute at a computer, open that calendar in a browser and tell me what date it comes up on. VaShaun On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 06:15 PM, "'Laury, Shawnese (LEO)' via VIPhone" < [email protected]> wrote: > Different date each time > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of > *vashaun jones > *Sent:* Thursday, October 8, 2026 6:13 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: google calendar > > > > *CAUTION: This is an External email. Please report suspicious emails via > the "Report to Abuse" button in Outlook* > > > > Shawnese, > > That settles it, and it settles it against me. A reinstall takes > everything the app was remembering with it. If the fault came back anyway > then it was never remembered position, and I shouldn't have told you it > was. Scratch that whole answer. > > Here's what it does tell you though, and it's worth more than my first > guess was. Nothing on your phone is carrying this. A fresh install starts > with nothing, so either that date is coming down with your account, or the > app is working it out wrong the same way every time it starts. Either way, > stop hunting for what changed on the phone. There's nothing there to find. > > That leaves two things to separate and one free test does it. Open that > same Google calendar somewhere that isn't your iPhone, in a browser on a > computer or on any other device you've got signed in. If it lands on today > there, the problem lives in that one app on that one phone. If it lands > months back there too, the account is doing it and the app is only showing > you what it's handed. > > One more thing that'll narrow it fast. Notice whether it's the same date > every single time, or a different one each time you open it. Same date > every time means something sitting at that date is pulling the view back to > it, and that's findable. A different date each time is a different animal. > > I'd rather be wrong out loud than leave you chasing a setting that was > never there. > > Is it the same date every time, or does it move? > > VaShaun > > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 05:21 PM, "'Laury, Shawnese (LEO)' via VIPhone" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi even after a fresh start it still goes back to a previous date. I have > even deleted the app completely and reinstalled it and the same behavior > continues. It hasn’t always been this way and I cannot figure out when it > started happening what changed to cause it. I’ll keep trying to figure it > out. > > > > Thanks > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of > *vashaun jones > *Sent:* Thursday, October 8, 2026 5:12 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: google calendar > > > > *CAUTION: This is an External email. Please report suspicious emails via > the "Report to Abuse" button in Outlook* > > > > Shawnese, > > Nothing in your settings is going to explain this, and that is why > checking them all came up empty. The calendar is not working out which date > to show you. It is putting you back on the last date you were looking at. > Position is something the app remembers, not a preference it offers, so > there is no switch for it anywhere. > > What makes it feel constant is that going into an app is usually not the > same as starting it. If Google Calendar is still sitting in the background, > opening it resumes it, and resuming puts you back exactly where you left > off, right down to the date. Only a fresh start has any reason to land on > today. So some months ago you scrolled back to find something, and it has > been handing you that spot ever since. > > The test is free and it names no setting. Close Google Calendar out of the > app switcher so it has to start over, then open it. If it comes up on > today, nothing is broken, and what you have been doing all along is > resuming it rather than opening it. > > If it still comes up months back after a genuine fresh start, that is a > different problem. It means the app is holding on to a saved state it > should have let go of. Your events live in your Google account and not on > the phone, so removing the app and putting it back costs you a sign in and > nothing else. > > Which one does it do after a fresh start, today or the old date? > > VaShaun > > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 04:12 PM, "'Laury, Shawnese (LEO)' via VIPhone" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello I’m having issues with the google calendar and this didn’t start > with the newest IOS update. Whenever I go into the calendar it is always on > a previous date that is usually months back. I have to click on the button > that says go to today. This started happening a few months ago and I’m not > sure why. 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