I mistakenly deleted my calandar from my iphone.
Not just current dates, but the whole darn thing. Lots of dates and times I need to have. I googled on how to restore the calander, but I seem to just be going around in circles setting new pass codes and not really solving the issue.
I would greatly appreciate anyone with the wisdom to tell me how to restore my calander, I would think it's still in my iphone, I can't imagine it not recoverable.
Thank you all.
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I have an iphone but very much use it as just a phone!
If you've ever downloaded an app from the Apple Store, you would have needed an Apple ID to sign in.
This could be somewhat innacurate and I hope someone else chimes in if it is. The ID gives access to iCloud - for file storage & backups. I have turned mine off but unless you've purposely done this, you probably have access to icloud and your phone may very well have backed itself up automatically.
Try going intto settings, scroll down to just before 'Apps'; there is a section with GameCentre, iCloud & Wallet. Have a look in icloud and see if you can find the most recent backup.
Strangely, despite being turned off, my iphone apparently backed itself up yesterday, prompted by an OS update. Have a poke around in there, you might find something worthwhile. 
I normally make house calls but 3000 miles is a bit much!
A quick visit to the Apple genius bar (or whatever they call it now), might save you a lot of time.
Your calendar events might be really gone, they might not. It depends on "where" your calendar really lived and how it was deleted (or hidden).
Trying not to overwhelm you with options, and sorry if I'm rambling a bit, but ....
- If the calendar events were *only* saved on your phone and you really deleted the calendar, then they're likely gone (ugh).
- If the calendar was on your phone, but also auto-sync'd with your iCloud account, then it might be recoverable (but ... not guaranteed; e.g. if you deleted the calendar and then that empty calendar was copied to the iCloud deleting the backup copy there).
How you "deleted" the calendar makes a difference too. You might have just hidden the calendar from being displayed in the Calendar app. You might have hidden the Calendar app and your data is really fine. Or you might have actually deleted the calendar events from within the calendar app ... the options are more than a few and it's hard to guess what it is that's happened.
Crossing fingers that your calendar is just not getting displayed and isn't really deleted. In the Calendars app, tap "Calendars" at the bottom — sometimes calendars get accidentally unchecked and just look "gone."
Apple really really tries to get you to sign into iCloud when you initialize your phone. And it'll often back up lots of stuff to iCloud without a lot of intervention by you (e.g. pictures, notes, mail, calendar events, etc., etc.).
Depending on how exactly you had your calendar (and phone) configured and how you "deleted" it, the data could be lost or it could just not be getting displayed or it could be in the iCloud waiting for it to be downloaded again to your device or ... probably other options I'm not thinking of right now.
Bottom line:
(1) If you know your iCloud login and password, you could login to icloud.com (with a normal web browser) and see if you can view your calendar that was sync'd with your phone without your noticing. But ... if you're not used to doing this, now might not be the best time to learn to do it. E.g. some of the authentication requirements & prompts can get confusing and the web interface can show you all the stuff in your iCloud account... which might be a bit overwhelming. And frankly I'd be a little worried about accidentally deleting the backup 
(2) If you have an Apple retail store handy, give them a visit. Maybe bring your Mac laptop with you too if you've got one sharing your iCloud account. I think they
Good luck and hope this helps and doesn't just stir up the mud for you.
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I gave up! In the morning I went to the Apple store and every store member was busy with a customer buying a new phone. It was also Give Away Tuesday so folks were waiting to get their free gifts. Eventually after aabout 40 miniutes one of the techs helped me out, Within 30 seconds she had restored my calenadar. I was soooo relieved I asked her if I could give her a hug she said sure, so she got a huge hug from a very relieved person. 
Thank you all for your help. So appreciated. Pam
Now ... I'm not trying to be a jerk, but ... please consider what to do if your phone were to break or get stolen or otherwise become inaccessible!
All data (including calendars) isn't safe until stored in more than one place.
Too many of my friends have their entire life on their phones and are excessively confident that they will never lose their data because they're so careful with their phones. Pictures, bank info, calendars, address books ... everything important should be in more than one place.
The saddest was a friend that had about 10 years of photos on her old phone and then got locked out of it. With no backups. The same friend also traveled without physical credit cards and depended on her phone to pay for literally everything. She then of course left her phone in a taxi ... oops (at least she got it back after a couple of days).
Anyway, suggest you ask for help from someone near you that can help make sure your phone is backed up!
In any event, glad to hear you've got your calendar back
I waved at you across the Strait yesterday, and you didn't wave back. 
That would be a really long distance wave! 
Actually, when I bought this latest phone. I kept my then current phone. I have used it occassionallu when the power on the new phone was getting low. I never even thought about restoring the calendar on the newer phone by accessing it from the older phone. Not even sure the calendar would still be on the old phine if I cancelled it on the new phone. If it was, would I know what to do to transfer the calender from the old to new phone.
But I'll give it a try if I ever screw up again. Thanks for the advice. Tas.