Shared calendar invitation won’t open for invitee

I've also invited my mother to a calendar. When trying to accept the calendar through email (whether through logging in through browser, gmail app, or apple mail app) all we received was a spinning circle. We even tried using different email accounts and nothing worked. But when I opened up the Calendar app itself, there was a notification inside the app that I'd invited my mother to a calendar. I opened the notification within the Calendar app and accepted the invite without a problem, bypassing the email link altogether. I guess it's not a fix, but a workaround that worked for me.

Edit:

Note: The email I used in order for the calendar to show up in the Calendar app was the email linked to her Apple ID.

Solved.

I wanted to share our Home Calendar with my husband.

I sent the invite to his email address, and he just got the spinning square. He tried on his iPhone and his Mac. So I texted the invite, still gets the spinning square. We tried repeatedly, me inviting, canceling, inviting again. Always the same spinning square.

He opens Calendar on his iPhone and there’s a notification (1) in the lower right corner “Inbox”. Click that, and there’s the invite, where he then “accepts.” Problem solved.

It’s simple, sure, but not what we expected: we swear there USED to be a pop up notification on the iPhone screen when I invited him to share precious Calendars. And judging by this Discussions thread, we’re not the only ones who expected a different notification process.

I’m glad for the Inbox (1) but the email and text notifications should just say “you have an invite in your Calendar Inbox” if the links Apple is sending just lead you to a spinning box (“spinning beach ball 2.0”?).

I had to create a calendar and send the invite to the other persons iCloud email account. Then make sure that person had iCloud calendar turned on in settings, iCloud, swipe to turn calendar on. Then once the invite was sent, went to the recipients calendar and click inbox on bottom right corner to accept the invite

I had to go to my laptop, open calendars, and click on the download symbol (with all the other notifications), and accept there. Not sure if I had to click the email first.

I don’t see the symbol on the phone. But, email alone didn’t work.

In response to m00p00, I had the same problem of getting the little spinning box in Safari when trying to respond to the email invitation to share a calendar. I read the "Solved" solution, but my email addresses were all complete and correct. What worked was to change the browser! Ironically, Safari was blocking the invitation, but Chrome and Opera worked just fine. I assume Firefox would as well, but I didn't try it.

I also got the the problem of invites not getting through in either the iCal app or email. Occasionally the email invite would arrive which then led to the spinning box in Safari. I found 2 solutions:

1. As the two posts above suggested I opened the email link (if it arrives!) in Chrome. It in turn presented a web interface to log in and the calendar can be added.
2. I sent the invite to the invitee's .me address rather than the .mac address. It would then show up in the calendar inbox of the invitee and it can be added from there.

I suspect this has something to do with apple trying to move away from the .mac addresses. and is yet another example of apple's software upgrades delivering "two steps forward, one step back". Mind you, their iCloud service have always been pretty ropey since day 1 of MobileMe so at least it's better than it was. I would be happy to get a upgrade that just makes everything work for a change!

I finally got the person added to my calendar, but they had to join on an iMac, not on their phone.

The thing that worked for me:

The apple ID which would receive my calender didn‘t have the calender sync checked in iCloud settings. After I set that, there was the (1) notification in the calendar app, able to join my calendar.

Hello m00p00,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities! We understand you are encountering some issues with trying to send an invitation to share a calendar on your iPhone. We are happy to help look in to this with you.

To begin, we want to make sure that the correct steps for sending a calendar invite are being followed. Take a look at the procedure to send a calendar invite here:

Share iCloud calendars on iPhone

We'd also like to ask some additional questions to get a better understanding of the situation and look to our next best steps.

• Are you able to send calendar invites out to other people successfully, or does this same thing happen with everyone you try sending an invitation out to?
• Have you been able to share calendars in the past with the device you are using?
• Are other people able to send calendar invites and share calendars with you?

Keep us updated on how it goes and the answers to those questions.

Best Regards.

I’m sure you verified already, but double check that he sent it to your correct mac email address?

This is the same problem I am having on my iPhone and MacBook when being sent an invitation to an existing calendar from my wife's iPhone or iPad. Another has received a sharing invitation from my wife that she was able to accept on her iPhone. I can create a new calendar on either of my devices and share it with my wife (invitations worked properly).

Despite the irony, try changing your default browser to something other than Safari, so that the email invitation link does not try to open in Safari. I found it works with Chrome. Shame on Apple.

For me the calendar invite comes through as a notification for one person ok, but another person didn’t get the notification. They both got email invitations, but when either one of them tries to join from the email link it goes to iCloud and shows a small spinning square only.

After weeks of trying...I'm finally getting the email invitation (but no invitation on my calendar app). When I click the email invitation, I get redirected to iCloud on Safari and that spinning square. Nothing else!

Please help!! I am sharing 3 other calendars with no issues. This one had no issues until the owner invited another person to share. That went fine but it kicked me out! He has since stopped sharing with all/anyone. We're still having trouble getting back to the original scenario where I am the only one he shares with. Ideally, the calendar will be shared with 2 ppl. Shouldn't be a problem, but it is! Why?? Any suggestions?