Why don’t events created in iCal show up in my iCloud calendar? Yesterday I installed Mac OS X 10.7.2, iOS5, and set up my iCloud.com account. I entered my iCloud details in System Preferences in Mac OS X, and in Settings on iOS. In both places, I set calendar syncing to “On”

However, I just created a test event in iCal, and it didn’t sync to iCloud.com or iOS. Events created on iOS sync to iCloud and iCal just fine.

What’s going on?
It turns out I had to:


Add my iCloud account to iCal, in iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Set my default calendar to one of my iCloud calendars, in iCal > Preferences > General.


See e.g.


http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/253324-lion-ical-not-syncing-icloud-calendar.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1249011


It seems a bit strange that I had to do this manually — you’d think just turning on Calendar syncing in the iCloud preference pane would do it.