Google shared calendar invitations for all my colleagues events

we use G suite at work. I am an admin of our account. I subscribe to all my teams shared calendars and since ios16 release, I now receive 100’s of calendar notifications from my teams calendars even though I’ve not been invited to that meeting.

this has never happened prior to ios16 and I have not changed anything else, so it must be ios16 causing this issue.

It’s an absolute nightmare and I am not able to use the calendar app - I have had to use Google’s app. Which isn’t ideal as I like to view my family & work calendars together and also have my calendar on my watch, which I am unable to do, because of this issue.

Has anyone managed to solve this issue? I’ve seen loads of others reporting this, but can’t find any good reasons or acknowledgement of the issue.

iPhone 14 Plus

Posted on Nov 30, 2022 11:58 AM

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BorisOkunskiy

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Posted on Jan 10, 2024 9:23 AM

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.

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