Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
The Add Invitees option is not displayed in Calendar on my MacBook Air.
The Calendar is syncing with my iPhone and I can add Invitees on the iPhone.
In the iCloud section of System Preferences I do not have Mail checked. When I do check this box I am asked to create an email account but this fails. Do I have an iCloud eMail account I don't know about?
Clearly my MacBook isn't set up correctly so any help would be appreciated.
MacBook Air (2018 or later)
Hello Cambs_Lad,
We appreciate the follow-up information. It sounds like a good start to test this in a temporary administrator account on your Mac. This will help narrow the issue down to being user account-specific, or system-wide, and that helps work out what might be causing the issue. Here are the steps you'll need; in this link, you'll also find additional steps to try depending on your results: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac. When you create the test user, you'll want to sign in using all of the same accounts, if you use any in addition to iCloud.
Cheers.
Hello Cambs_Lad,
We appreciate the follow-up information. It sounds like a good start to test this in a temporary administrator account on your Mac. This will help narrow the issue down to being user account-specific, or system-wide, and that helps work out what might be causing the issue. Here are the steps you'll need; in this link, you'll also find additional steps to try depending on your results: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac. When you create the test user, you'll want to sign in using all of the same accounts, if you use any in addition to iCloud.
Cheers.
Hi Cambs_Lad,
Thanks for the post in Apple Support Communities. I understand you're unable to send invitations using Calendar on a Mac.
You mentioned iCloud settings. While iCloud mail shouldn't relate to this, I do recommend making sure that Calendar is checked under System Preferences > iCloud.
When you create a new event in Calendar, do you see the other standard options like "Add Location" and "Add Notes, URL, or Attachments?" If not, what do you see instead?
If you create an event and then double-click it to bring up the event details, are you then able to see Add Invitees?
Do any of the methods described here allow you add an invitee to your event? Invite people to events in Calendar on Mac.
I hope this gets you started!
Take care.
I do have Calendar checked on iCloud and it works as expected.
When I create or double click an event I see
Event and Add Location
all day: starts: ends: time zone: repeat: travel time: alert:
Add Notes, URL or Attachments
In the Edit Tab the section Share Calendar/Stop Sharing/Resend Invitations is greyed out.
Hi Joseph,
I am the administrator on my MacBook Air and when I set it up there was a "Guest" account. I logged out and logged in as "Guest". I added a new event in Calendar and sure enough the "Add Invitees" was there!
So I guess it must be related to settings on my account.
Where should I start looking?
Thanks for such a simple idea to localise the issue.
I did create another user account and gave it "Administrator" privilege.
Calendar works fine on this account so it definitely points at my account/settings.
Just updated to Mac OSX 10.14.3.
Problem solved.
Thanks for everyones help on this.
Hi Cambs_Lad,
Thank you for following up to let the Apple Support Communities know the issue is taken care of. That's great news.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Unable to use invitees on Calendar.
