I migrated my MobileMe account to iCloud and calendar invitations are not working. When I create a calendar event and select an invitee an email is not sent to the invitee. I have tried sending invites from iCal on my MacBook Air, iPhone, and iCloud.com with no success. I tested by creating a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID and still no luck. Anyone else having this problem?
This is a very old thread but for the last few posts here is the thread you are looking for with current information.
Re: iCal will not send if location is added to event
Since late November/Early December 2016, many people have not been able to send event invitations when the add a "suggested Apple Maps location" which seems to be blocking the invitation. Read the thread above for other people who have had the same issue.
As i said, this has been happening to me since late November/Early December.
I was manually adding some December/January Calendar events (adding suggested Apple Maps locations) and the inviting a couple family members. After about three invites to events, the invitations stopped going through. One other did go through but it had "TBD" as the location.
Fast foreward: Tonight I removed the suggested Apple Maps locations and left only location names and the invites began to flow! I was able to reproduce it as described above and below in every instance.
1. Both macOS Sierra & iOS 10.2 Calendar apps are affected in my case.
2. It only has happened to me with using suggested Apple Maps locations.
3. I have had no problems with Emojis nor adding notes, only with suggested Apple Maps locations.
I was able to create an event then invite without a location on macOS. After accepting I could modify it on an iOS device and add a suggested Apple Maps location. The the invite would then update to the suggested Apple Maps location for the invitee.
I wonder if my initial action of sending multiple event invites in a short time triggered some anti-spam block in iCloud servers? This began around the same day Apple announced it was going to start actively blocking spam invites. My hope is that I have not been put of some spam list.
I submitted a bug report to the Calendar Engineering Team. It was quick and simple. Hopefully they will find the bug/spam filter issue and fix it soon.
I have this same problem, invitations not making it to recipients. It was working fine 2 weeks ago.
Invites from me (4s) now come as emails to my wife (4s), but work normally to another user (iPodT). My wife's invitations never make it to me, no invite, no email.
Overall my iCloud experience has been poor. I also suffered from disappearing contacts until I disabled iCloud contact sync.
Having the same problem with event invitations not working.
First noticed the issue when i created a iCloud account for my fiance for her iTouch (4Gen / iOS5.0.1), all invites i sent her came through as e-mails (@me.com) and not into her iCal app as i had set it up to.
Now mine isnt working either. i can create events no problem and send invites to my fiance but if she sends one to me on my @me.com, it doesnt even come through to me via e-mail or iCal app. I'm running on iPhone 4s (iOS5.0.1) & iPad 1 (iOS5.0.1)
Anybody able to help at all?
I'm having the same problem now. It was working great even past the iCloud migration. Not exactly sure when it stopped working, but the past few invites I've received via email have not been working.
I have spent the last 2 days trying to send calendar entries to my wife. We both have @me.com addresses. I cannot send anything to her but I can send to other e mail addresses with great success. Interestingly she can send me entries. I am now stuck and fed up with looking. From the posts here, its seems I am not alone. Lets hope Apple take a look at these message boards.
Good luck folks
Just received my ExpressLane call from Apple - if I want help it will cost me £25. No thanks.
It is ridiculous.
I have just got mine working.
One of my old Apple IDs had the new iCloud email address as the alternate email address on the account. Once that was removed invites started working perfectly.
If you have any old Apple IDs check them out at http://appleid.apple.com and make sure that the iCloud address is not being used as the alternate address on any of them.
Good work fella!
I have just followed your instructions and found the offending e mail address. I am really pleased that the entries are working as my wife and I really find it useful.
Well done and thank you
Best wishes
Septic
I have found the solution to the problem it seems.
For the problems with iCloud calendar invites not going through to calendar on iPhone, iPad, iTouch and so on or going to email instead.
Solution was found while I tried to sort out a problem with my iMessager, it kept saying could not validate as it was already in use. I also had the same issue with FaceTime on my iPhone after logging out, I couldn't log back on.
- Head over to appleid.apple.com
- Login
- Remove any old email email addresses that have been assiociated with the account (if there has been any) - this should sort it the iMessage and FaceTime issue.
- Change your password, making sure that it conforms to the new constrates set by apple (two letters, one upper case & one lowercase, one number and so on.
- Click "Save Changes"
- update all your login settings with the new password and it should work.
I have fixed my me.com and my fiancé me.com account with these steps. Hope it works for you all as well
I'll add my 2 cents on this. I am new to the IPhone 4S and I cannot get invitations to work at all on iCloud. Ironically, I have email accounts on Exchange server (gmail, Hotmail and work email) and invitations work on all these perfectly. When I get an invite at my me.com email, the email contains an ics attachment and does not give me the option to accept or decline. There is no invite in the calendar. I have tried the various suggestions in this discussion string and none have worked. To my knowledge, I only have one Apple ID.
Here is a follow up to my posting yesterday:
1. iCloud works correctly for invites when I receive an invite from another iCloud user
2. Invites from non-iCloud email accounts show up as an ics attachment. This is inconsistent with most other providers who seem to manage the invites as normal, but I can live with it.
Thank you Stuart! I had exactly the same problem and removing the unverified email address as you suggested solved it.
@stuartfromglasogw
You are my hero. I had the same thing and could solve it with your tip.
Thanks
Ok, Do any of you guys answer invites in Ical succesfully or do you as I have to respond trough mail?
• Is it possible to respond trough Ical?
I work on Icloud with latest versions on rest.
Hello, I have the same problem: I have an old mobile me account username@yahoo and an attached mail address username@me; after migrating to icloud, I cannot use anymore the username@me mail within the yahoo icloud and I cannot send invites; I made a new iCloud account: username2@me from wich I can send invites. And if someone sends me an invite to username2@me, i see it in iCal, but if someone sends it to username@yahoo, I see it in mail as an attachement.
Stuart solution is not working for me.
If anyone can help, that would be great.
Thank you!
Hi. I'll clarify my own situation in case it's of any help.
I have two Apple IDs: one for purchases (a "gmail.com" ID) and one for iCloud (a "me.com" ID - formerly MobileMe which I migrated to iCloud). I have tested out a couple of things with a friend of mine (let's call him Bob) who only has one Apple ID / email address for everything hence does not have all these headaches.
If Bob sends me an iCal appointment to my "gmail.com" address I receive the invite as an email. It also appears in iCal but Bob only receives my response when I accept/decline via the email (i.e. he never sees my response if I accept/decline via iCal).
If Bob sends me an iCal appointment to my "me.com" address I only receive it in iCal and Bob gets my response when I accept/decline it from there.
The problem I had is that iCal invites were not being sent at all (Bob informed me he was never receiving invites from me) and this was due to the previously mentioned problems of "alternate unverified" email addresses (in fact, I would recommend that anyone who has multiple Apple IDs they should log in with each ID (https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa) and remove any "alternate UNVERIFIED" email addresses).
And also Bob now only ever sends me iCal appointments to my "me.com" address because he finds it useful to know I'm not ignoring him.
iCloud Calendar invitations not working
