iPhone Calendar Virus

M_Anderson72 wrote:

I deleted the unwanted calendar but it keeps adding it self back repeatedly. Any further advice?

So to confirm, you viewed the subscribed calendar section of the (iPhone? iPad? Mac?) and found and deleted the subscription there, and the subscribed calendar is now somehow getting re-added? Which iOS or iPadOS or macOS version?

I deleted it on my phone several times and it repopulated itself immediately. It was under the Google calendar section, so I went to my google calendar on my desktop and removed the calendar subscription there, which then removed it from my phone and it has not repopulated. Maybe that will help if someone else is dealing with this.

M_Anderson72 wrote:

I deleted it on my phone several times and it repopulated itself immediately. It was under the Google calendar section, so I went to my google calendar on my desktop and removed the calendar subscription there, which then removed it from my phone and it has not repopulated. Maybe that will help if someone else is dealing with this.

That’s a different calendar spam mess than the rest of this thread. Seems those ever-clever spammers have found a different calendar vehicle for their spam. Yes, visit the Google website, log in, and sort it out there.

Thank u !!! Happened to me yesterday same cause and I got out today quick after deleting the subscribed calendar account.

question when your phone tells you the info was in a data leak what does that mean?

Chaneld91 wrote:

…question when your phone tells you the info was in a data leak what does that mean?

That’s a separate question, and it means that one or more of your passwords has been found in a breach. Whether that is a common password (bad), or is a re-used password (very bad)?

Apple provides details on iPhone and iPad here > Settings > Passwords > Security Recommendations.

Passwords are best when unique and robust. Re-used passwords—even robust passwords—go from great to horrible, just as soon as one of the services where that password is re-used is breached. And lots of services have gotten breached, and more services are getting breached, with more passwords and more password pairs getting exposed with each.

If you want to expose your email (already widely known for most of us), see haveibeenpwned for a summary of the breaches you’ve been caught up in: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I suspect this is a little more virus-y than first thought.

When I go to Settings->Calendar, my screen freezes. As long as I don’t try to launch calendar, all other setting options work.

I’ll contact support tomorrow.

Has any of these spam companies been sued in a California small claims court? I feel like I’m owed $5K for this PITA spam.

That response was written more than a year ago and it is not current anymore. Please see the updated instructions below:

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.

Axel F

Even before finding this thread, I tried all the suggestions. There were multiple videos available for suggestions for the different versions of iOS, but McAffe’s YouTube video posted in May was the cleanest. I have 14.6.

I guess you missed my sentence that my “system froze” after going to System->Calendar. I could never get to Accounts, which was the McAffe suggestion.

The freezing part is the piece that I’m sharing with the community that others haven’t mention. I honestly don’t care what it is, but I wanted it gone.

What I did after writing my original comment was delete the Calendar app and reinstall. From there, I was able to remove the objectionable calendar from the Calendar app and not Systems -> Calendar -> Account since it wasn’t present. Another YouTube video I saw said removing the spammy calendar from Calendar app isn’t the solution. I’m hoping it’s gone for good. Maybe I ran into a different version of whatever it is?

I guess if it returns, I’ll return to factory settings.

“Whatever it is” is a subscribed calendar that was offered by some website or mail, and was accepted.

Deleting the subscribed calendar from within the Calendar app is easiest, with iOS 14 and later.

The Path to unsubscribe the subscribed calendar through Settings is more involved, but necessary on older iOS versions.

Whether there was another issue due to (for instance) low available storage that might have caused responsiveness problems is unclear.

I guess thanks for this reply.

Yes, I’ve paid heavily for launching an URL from a friend and not watching what I was doing or had my big fingers on the screen as the link launched. Yes, I must of hit okay, but I don’t remember doing it.

This will be my last post on the issue & I’m only writing it to save someone else time.

What I’m trying to get across, but apparently not well is the standard fix for iOS 14 didn’t work until I deleted the Calendar app from my screen. After reinstalling Calendar app, I could then delete the #%^* annoying calendar.

If anyone is getting these in 2021, you have to go to SETTINGS >> CALENDAR >> ACCOUNTS >> iCloud. Then check all devices that are connected to your Apple ID. I have an Apple Watch that is named as mine, so I know which devices are mine. But somehow another Apple Watch was added to my iCloud account!! So the moment I deleted that other Apple Watch, all those calendar “events” and notifications that were added to my calendar disappeared!

If anyone is getting these in 2021, you have to go to SETTINGS >> CALENDAR >> ACCOUNTS >> iCloud. Then check all devices that are connected to your Apple ID. I have an Apple Watch that is named as mine, so I know which devices are mine. But somehow another Apple Watch was added to my iCloud account!! So the moment I deleted that other Apple Watch, all those calendar “events” and notifications that were added to my calendar disappeared!

I am updating the resolution again since the initial response was over a year and a half ago and things have change with the newer iOS version(s).

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.

Axel F

Axel F.

Pincoy wrote:

Factory reset will solved this problem ..

A factory reset will not clear a calendar subscription, short of erasing all data.

Remove the erroneously-subscribed calendar.

There is no need for a reset, or for an erase.

Dude you are the ****!!! Man that was tripping me out for the last 3 weeks been trying to find like an app cleaner or something! Huge help bro! Wicked advice!

just remember to tell people it’s under settings——mail—-accounts at least mine is for my iPhone x