How to remove Calendar spam?

Go to Settings/Calendar/Accounts, Tap Subscribed Calendars, tap on the offending calendar and delete it.

More precisely:

• Tap on the Settings icon
• Scroll down to Calendar and tap on on it
• Tap on Accounts
• Tap on Subscribed Calendars
• Tap on the offending calendar
• Tap Delete Account

That is a Rogue Calendar account. Go to Settings-->>Passwords & Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.

Good Luck.

Axel F

Although you can’t currently report and remove calendar spam on iPhone, iPad, and Mac except to just delete, Apple does have a process for handling this spam via iCloud.com, which may reduce it across all your Apple devices. Here’s how to address calendar invite spam from iCloud calendar:

1. Go to iCloud on the web and log in from your desktop or laptop computer.
2. Open the Calendar app once you are in your iCloud account.
3. Open the spam event and then select “Report Junk.”
4. Click “OK.”

When you report calendar spam through iCloud, it will also be removed from all Apple devices that are synced with your iCloud account.

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 If running iOS 13 or earlier versions, check: Settings - Passwords & Accounts - Accounts - Any rogue entries here? If so, delete the rogue account. 

If running iOS 14, check: Settings - Calendar - Accounts - Any rogue entries here? If so, delete the rogue account. 

Remove spam from Calendar on your iPhone

WOliver2021 wrote:

How to remove celendar spams

 If running iOS 13 or earlier versions, check: Settings - Passwords & Accounts - Accounts - Any rogue entries here? If so, delete the rogue account. 

If running iOS 14, check: Settings - Calendar - Accounts - Any rogue entries here? If so, delete the rogue account. 

Remove spam from Calendar on your iPhone

Hi Steph,

I will post the instructions again to remain relevant since my response was first posted in January of 2020. Below is the updated response:

That is a Rogue Calendar account. 

If you are using iOS 13 then Go to Settings ➔ Passwords & Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar account is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.

If you are using iOS 14 then Go to Settings ➔ Calendar ➔ Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar account is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.

Note that it is not a virus. It is something that got added to your calendar because you may have accepted an offer from a pop-up on a website unknowingly. Please be careful out there.

If you still need more information then Please follow the instructions in this guide published by Apple ➔ How to Delete spam calendars and events on iPhone

Axel F

OliviaFlashaar wrote:

So I have this same problem but idk how it started it just started popping up and I have no clue where accounts and password is I have a iPhone 6 and idk what to do it is getting annoying when they pop up

• Tap the Settings icon
• Scroll down until you see Passwords & Accounts and tap on it
• Scroll down until you see Subscribed Calendars
• Tap on the rogue calendar and tap Delete

It started because you tapped on a “free” offer on a website or in an app, and it asked you to tap “Allow” in the next dialog that appeared. That gave permission for the site to install the spam calendar.

Hello, something similar happened to me too and I have no idea how. I used your advice and it's gone now but I am wondering if I can be calm that there is no virus and nothing wrong with my iPhone or if I should make some more precautions.. Thanks for the answer.

You are welcome. Just want you to know that it was not virus on your iPhone. This was due to accepting something on a website pop up that you probably didn't know was going to add a calendar on your iPhone. Good thing is that it is gone now.

Axel F.

Axel Foley wrote:

That is a Rogue Calendar account. Go to Settings-->>Passwords & Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.

Good Luck.

Axel F

Axel, have you considered making this a user tip?

Learned something in process and that is what Axel said (Axel Foley / really? Wasn’t he a character in a very wonderful and funny movie starring a former SNL cast member?) and that is that Apple products CANNOT have Computer viruses - as I understand them to be in the PC world (I.e. self replicating and otherwise destructive) UNLESS that Apple Product has been “jail broken” which is something that most Apple product owners don’t want to do anyway! So a “calendar virus” on the Apple Calendar is nothing more than annoying sucker bait which I must have fallen for somewhere along the line. Annoying but harmless unless you respond to it.

That said, it appears that you actually CAN respond inadvertently if you delete the “event” which appears to be posted on “the calendar” - what you have to do is delete the calendar itself - which is actually THEIR calendar and not one you created at all!

one other step - something I know I am supposed to do but cannot remember HOW to do at this point (sorry my iPhone skills - not to mention my memory - are lacking) is NOT accept calendars at all from “others” to be included in with your “master” calendar.

I know that explanation is a little murky. Perhaps someone can explain that better than I did in my feeble attempt!

anyway - thank you again - “Axel” and everyone else!

You’ve got it right. For the rogue calendar to be installed you were probably offered some freebie for tapping a link in Facebook, on a web page or in an app. That link authorized the source to install a subscription calendar. You would still have seen a dialog from iOS asking if you wanted to accept the calendar.

It is entirely up to YOU whether it will happen again. If you accept another “free” offer in an app or on a website, then allow the site to install a calendar (you MUST click an “accept” button displayed by iOS) then it will happen again. Nothing can be installed on your phone without your permission.

You were targeted because you accepted a “free” offer in an app or on a web site. You then tapped “Allow” when your phone asked if you wanted to install something. TANSTAAFL*. Don’t accept anything that’s free, because it isn’t. And when your phone tries to protect you accept its advice.

*There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Robert Heinlein, in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

Sir, I know the quote and follow ardently out of searching something desirable may be I clicked something out of vain. As all that glitters are not gold. I will mind that next time.

So are they not coming again till I click install and allow again. Is that something not gonna sit on my device??