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How do I stop BusyCal from adding the country to every address?

When you add an address to an event's Location field, BusyCal resolves it through Apple Maps and stores the full, normalized result. Apple Maps treats the country (for example, "United States", "United Kingdom", "Germany") as a required part of a complete address, so it is always appended to the result BusyCal receives back.

There is no setting in BusyCal to strip the country from an address that has been resolved through Apple Maps.

Why the country is always included​

Apple Maps returns addresses as a complete, unambiguous place reference. A street and city alone can exist in more than one country — for example, a "Main Street, Springfield" exists in many countries around the world. Without the country, the address could be matched to the wrong location on the map, which would also cause problems for related features such as:

Because the country is part of the address Apple Maps returns, BusyCal has no reliable way to selectively remove it while still keeping the address valid for these features.

What you can do​

If you would prefer not to see the country appended to your addresses, you have a couple of options:

  • Type the address as free text instead of selecting a suggestion. When you start typing an address, BusyCal shows Apple Maps suggestions in a dropdown. If you press Return without selecting a suggestion, the text is stored exactly as you typed it. Keep in mind that an unresolved address will not show a map preview and cannot be used for travel time or Time to Leave alarms.
  • Edit the Location field after choosing a suggestion. Once an address has been resolved, you can click into the Location field and manually delete the country from the end of the text. If you then save the event, BusyCal will keep your edited value. Note that this may downgrade the address to plain text and remove its link to Apple Maps, which again disables the map preview and travel-time features for that event.
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This behavior is the same in Apple Calendar and other apps that resolve addresses through Apple Maps — it is a property of the address data returned by Apple Maps itself, not something specific to BusyCal.

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