Google shared calendar invitations for all my colleagues events

I know I am a bit late to the party on this one, but as a Google Workspace Domain Admin, I too have experienced this issue and found a solution:

1. Turn Off Google Calendar Sync in iOS Settings:

• • Navigate to Settings > Calendar > Accounts on your iOS device.
  • Select your Google account, disable the calendar sync, and confirm to delete all Gmail calendars from the device.

2. Force Close the iOS Calendar App:

• • Although probably not necessary, I recommend force closing the app to ensure the settings take effect cleanly (double press the Home button and swipe the Calendar app off the screen).

3. Check Google Calendar Subscriptions:

• • Via the Google Calendar web page, ensure you are not subscribed to any suspended or archived users' calendars. Unsubscribe from them if necessary.

4. Adjust Google Calendar Sync Settings:

• • Visit the Google Calendar sync settings page directly at Google Calendar Sync Select.
  • Unselect all calendars except for those you need and click 'Save.'

5. Re-enable Google Calendar Sync on iOS:

• • Return to Settings > Calendar > Accounts, select your Google account, and turn the calendar sync back on.

This procedure should ensure you only receive notifications for invites to your own account. Please note that you may still receive notifications for any past invites that you have not yet responded to.

Hope this helps everyone!

I can confirm that removing admin privileges from Google Workspace fixes the Apple Calendar.

Apparently, you get Read & Write permissions to all calendars when you're Google Workspace Admin, so Apple Calendar treats them as "My Calendar".

Afaik Google Calendar app uses its own APIs whereas Apple Calendar is synced via CalDAV — so it might be that it's actually Google who sends incorrect calendars to sync.

The most annoying thing, however, is the responses in this thread "Apple Inc. is not Google Inc., ask them, not us" which is just plain awful. This is not a proper way to treat your valued customers. At least acknowledge that the problem exists and try to investigate the internals (e.g. CalDAV payloads) to see whether something can be done on either side.

This is an issue with Calendar which is an Apple application and how it integrates with Google... This affects both macOS and iOS... Apple wrote the software to support the use of Google Accounts, Google did not write it... Apple 100% writes products to be compatible with third party products... otherwise no one would buy or use their systems.

There is a bug in the software which incorrectly fetches events from subscribed calendars and displays them as the user's events... it is probably a simple problem to fix (and may have resulted from a Google API change).

Have you enabled Scheduled Summary?

Settings > Notifications > [Select the App that you are having trouble receiving immediate notifications]

See the pic below for a few examples. Please select immediate delivery.

This is an issue on calendar management in Apple’s side, not Google’s. Google happens to be the calendaring service associated with the bug, but the problem is happening only on the Apple calendar app.

I’m experiencing it too, and it has nothing to do with Google. If it did, then it would be happening in the Google Calendar app as well, which I have.

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Everything you see in Google Calendar under "My Calendars" (whether visible or hidden) is synced to Apple Calendar. You can use Google calendar sync tool to unsync ones. Unfortunately you'll need to do that again if you have more added to My Calendars. See: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/99358?hl=en#:~:text=Change%20which%20calendars%20get%20synced

I receive notifications for co-workers google calendars unless I unsync them from my apple calender. If I click on "Calendar sync" from this page https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/99358?hl=en when I am signed into G suite then I can unsync their calendar.

This just started happening to me as well, after I was given admin privileges in our Google workspace. It’s a huge nuisance.

I was hopeful I’d solved the problem by unchecking the shared calendars in Calendar settings but the notifications keep on coming. I was surprised today to see that I’m even able to accept or decline on others behalf. (Though I can’t even tell whose calendar I’m receiving the notification for as it’s not shown in the notification.)

It has also been reported by Microsoft/Outlook users (I keep getting calendar invites for share… - Apple Community) - so it isn’t strictly an issue on Google’s end. Definitely a problem with Apple Calendar

I’m very disappointed to see that this issue has been ongoing for so long, I’m worried Apple doesn’t care to fix this issue and I will have to discontinue using the Calendar app. It’s been really nice to have my personal and work appointments together in one calendar.

Is there a better place to submit the bug to Apple since it doesn’t seem that they are seeing it here?

I've marked these calendars as "ignore alerts" but does that affect my colleagues if I have write access to their mailboxes?

Manage notifications from Calendar on Mac – Apple Support (AU)

roscoe81 wrote:

Can confirm myself and other Admins in our Google Workspace account have this issue. All receive notifications for events they are not invited to in iCal. Come on Apple!

Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This issue did not start occurring until I updated my iOS to 16. This is an Apple problem, not a Google problem. This issue does not occur on iOS versions 15 and under.

This issue seems to have been around for a while now: Receiving event invites for other users o… - Apple Community

I'm facing the same issue. It's very disturbing as even ignoring notifications for invitations meant for other team members does not help. They keep popping, sometimes right after I dismiss them, and then again and again.

Any updates on this would be very helpful. Thanks.

You are addressing this to another user and not to Apple in this forum.

Apple Support Community Forum

This is Apple Support Community forum, primarily for a user to user interaction for information & idea sharing between users, if need be, extend support on technical know-how in handling Apple products from a more experienced fellow user, This is not the right forum to discuss with Apple Inc.

Same thing started happening to me as of last night--my phone started blowing up with other people's invitations and I had to accept or decline it to make it go away. I started declining and then all my colleagues said that someone other than them declined meetings they needed to be a part of! This morning logging into my Mac, the same issue is occurring in my apple calendar on my desktop...MAKE IT STOP. I have already unchecked everyone's calendars so I don't see them but that doesn't stop the invite notifications from coming all day long...even ones from years ago.

It’s still happening for me. But it’s not all the time, so it’s super random and weird (and very annoying since I manage dozens of calendars in multiple google workspaces that I admin). It’s definitely an Apple issue as I don’t have the issue on my google calendars online.