Question :

I am used to arranging my Calendar events mainly on my Mac, because I think I have more options there tan on my iPhone and iPad. But at this moment I do not have my Mac at hand and I want to duplicate (or copy-paste) a calendar event that is already in my Calendar to another date… but there doesn’t appear to be a simple button to do so…

Is there really no way to duplicate a calendar event on an iPhone/iPad ?

Answer :

Yes, there is an option built into iOS/iPadOS to do so, but it’s not as straight forward as you might like :

• open the Calendar app
• go to the calendar event you want to duplicate (or copy-paste)
• click on it, so the Event Details page will open
• then click on Edit (top-right), so the Edit Event page will open
• then click on the tiltle of your event, so the red cursor line appears
• then click-and-hold on the title of your event again, and when you release the pop-up options will appear in black, then choose Select All
• the title of your event will now be entirely highlighted in red, and slightly different pop-up options will appear in black, this time choose Copy
• then click Cancel (top-left)
• then click on the date (in red) top-left
• in Calendar-roll page, scroll to the date where you want to place the duplicate calendar event
• then click + (the red plus-sign top-right), so a New Event page will open
• click-and-hold on Title (in grey), and when you release the pop-up options will appear in black, then choose Paste
• now, the event name will be pasted, and the Location-line will be pushed downward to make way for a Suggeted Event
• click on the Suggested Event and all the additional settings of the original event will be filled out (put differently : you now have a duplicate of the original event)
• now, adjust all details, like date, time, calendar, alerts, etc. to your liking
• when ready, click Add (top-right in red)

That’s it… you now have a copy-pasted (and edited) the original event !

enjoy 😉