IOS 13 - Mail with .ics is not downloading

To fix .ics show up as “unavailable” do the following....

Go to settings ing iOS

Go to Passwords and Accounts .... choose the the email account you are having issues with

Make sure the slider on Calendar is ON

This should solve your problem......

Hello Danimerino,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. It sounds like an .ics file is not opening or able to be viewed from Mail. You've reached the right place.

Here are some suggestions:

• If you haven't already, be sure to back up your iPhone then update to iOS 13.1: Update iOS software on iPhone - Apple Support
• If possible, try having the .ics file sent again to download again.
• Try opening using another cloud service using Files: Use the Files app on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

Cheers.

And this also happened pre iOS 13 so no real change there. The problem that was introduced with 13 (at least for me) was that I can no longer open some ics attachments on emails. Yes, the invite gets added to my calendar, but how do I know where to go looking for it? The appointment could be tomorrow or it could be months into the future. It’s not practical to go searching for it. Pre iOS 13 I could just tap on the ics attachment and it would take me directly to the relevant time on my calendar. I could then accept or decline in an informed way.

“Calendar” slider is on for the exchange account that is sending me calendar invitations, @Bob_Bo. In fact, I can open my calendar and view all my other appointments for this exchange account.

However, on my iPad Mini 4 running iPad OS 13.3, tapping on “meeting.ics” attachments in emails has no effect: The icon flashes, just briefly, as if it’s going to download, and then nada: icon’s still sitting there, with no attachment downloaded and I’m unable to view the invitation.

I’ve experienced this issue with 13.1 and 13.2. Attachments had worked as expected with iOS 12 and prior.

Got a user experiencing the same issue since updating to IOS 13. We've got multiple people with e-mails and calendar invites flowing fine but she's the only one experiencing this issue as well. Toggling the calendar under passwords and accounts fixes the issue temporarily but then it returns. I've attached a photo of the icon. Doesn't respond to touch and toggling the calendar only relieves the issue temporarily.

ICS is a calendar invite, so opening them in ‚another service‘ doesn‘t make sense.

What happened on iOS 12 and prior: calendar opened when clicking on the invite as attachment to a mail.

In 13.1: can‘t download message

Observation:

works with IMAP based mail but is

broken with Exchange Online based mail boxes.

Addition: same Exchange based mailbox work with iOS 12 device, aka. unrelated to Exchange

I am having this problem as well. Specifically:

I am using mail with exchange. When someone sends a calendar notice, it is attached as a file:meeting.ics.

In ios12 (and previous versions), you could view the calendar attachment. Now it just shows the attachment, and doesn’t download.

Apple, please help.

I've same problem!

For years I have used programs that generate events automatically and allows my clients and employees to manage everything automatically. Now who has IOS can no longer do it.

Really embarrassing!

It is even more so due to the fact that before the update it worked and now, after months, no solution, no fix, no support!

I can not import an ICS into my calendar. I am running iOS 13.3 and have resent the invite several time. Each time, I can open the invite but it will not import to my calendar. From the Calendar, when I select "Inbox" the screen reports "No Invitations". I also replied to one of the invites hoping to use the "Replied" selection but I get a "No Events You've Replied To" message.

How do I fix this issue?

I'm interested in this thread and haven't found the answer but you can find the new calendar invites in the Calendar app and on the bottom right there is a button called "Inbox"; it shows you all the invites you haven't yet actioned.

“This worked,” “it works” and “that setting” responses are unhelpful.

i trust @del44, @Wohoo2020 and @Canary614 are saying that @crdrummond3000’s “go to download an ics. [when] Safari opens, [go] to Setting / Safari / Downloads and select “On my phone” as opposed to iCloud.” solved the issue.

Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue on my iPad, running iPadOS 13.

I followed your instructions and my calendar was ON. The calendar invites still do not open. As others have said, this all use to work fine and in perfect Apple fashion, an update is issued and nothing works the same again. Beyond frustrating!!!

Did you have any success? I have the same issue.

thanks!

iOS 13.2 brought salvation for this issue. However, only for newly received mails. The ones received prior to the update were left with the issue.

I’m running 13.2 and still experiencing this problem. Excel (.xls) files are also not loading