iPhone calendar spam

This is how I was able to delete mine. I’m not sure if you need to do it in this order but this worked for me. I opened the calendar app on the iPhone and went to the first day the spam event popped up. I long pressed the even on the day (don’t click the link) and it gave me the option to “cut.” Once I did that, it greyed the events out but they were still on my calendar. I then long pressed again (on a different day, if that matters) but this time it gave me the option to delete. I hit delete and now they’re gone and haven’t come back so far. I kept declining before trying this and it wasn’t doing anything so happy this work but still annoyed that this can happen

All this began after IOS 17, I regret updating it.. Support needs to install a feature where it lets you block calendar invites

Hi everyone ! Solution💡🚨;

-go to setting type: calendar

-then account: in my case clicked put look

-turn off calendar.

all your manual invites will stay , all spam will be removed

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My exact problem! Everything solution online has unsubscribe or delete calendars but that’s not the issue. I can’t find the email invite in my email_ only in my phone calendar. Just started after I updated to iOS 17 .0.1.

I found how to delete completely!! Go to your Microsoft Outlook account through the web browser. Then from there click on your outlook calendar. Find the event the first day it was added click the event then click delete event. It will remove it 100%. This took me hours to figure out, but after reading a ton of things and getting nowhere I brainstormed with my husband and this is all we could think was left to do and it worked!!

I have the same type of device with the same iOS version as you described. I also ran into trouble with deleting spam invitations, but appear to have been successful. First - I went through settings to make sure I (or my children) hadn't inadvertently suscribed to a spam calendar (there were none). Then, I went into outlook and cleared the junk folder for any email accounts I had (this deleted one of the spam invitations). Finally, in the calendar app, I performed a long press on the spam event and selected "cut"...that seems to have cleared them without having to decline the invitation (and in doing so, confirm that this was a valid email address, which would have surely invited additional spam events).

I'm having the exact same problem after upgrading to iOS 17x. This comes from the sync between Mail calendar invites to the Calendar app.

The best thing to do to secure yourself is to remove all your accounts from the built-in Mail app and use the individul mail apps, if they're non-iCloud apps.

If you decide to keep your account or have iCloud mail, make sure you turn off notifications to declined calendar invites- Settings --> Calendar --> Toggle off 'Show Invitee Declines'.

Also, you can block the sender.

Regardless, Apple is supposed to be more secure than Android, and this feature makes users more exposed. This is a security flaw that has a potential to exploited easily.

Sincerely,

A security-minded IT Admin

I have successfully removed a similar spam calendar invite. Search you emails for ‘Melissa you have won a ….,’ When you find this email , block sender, and move message to junk and then delete message completely. Hopefully this will remove the spam invite.

Had this recently and none of the above worked. So, I’ve found the following two options to work;

1) Delete the associated email account in settings; mail; accounts; delete account- then re-add account

2) open emails and try search the invite title/number of whatever it appears in calendar and delete email and you’ll find it deletes calendar event.

these are my two proven ways to sort out these pesky spam events.

Good luck!

Long press & Cut. It worked thank you Greatly appreciated.

I’m having the same issue. I’ve been using my Apple Calendar for years. Looking to use a different calendar entirely since this seems to be a continuing issue with no update or fix. How do we report a bug in the iOS updates? Seems to have happened with the 17 updates. Thank you.

I just got one and I went to my junk mail and trash folders and deleted everything. It disappeared!

Oh my!! Finally I was able to delete these invites. That long press on the spam finally eliminated them. Thanks for this advice.

I have this exact problem also. And I’ve tried all the frikkin work around. And even searched the specific emails in my inbox to block the addresses. But some of them are not coming from an email that I can specifically find. So no way to block the contact. And I don’t want the invites sitting there so I declined them. This only started after the iOS 17 update.

Hi. This happened to me too and I was unable to delete it through calendar but I found the fix. Go to your junk mail and either search the topic of the invite to find the spam email generating the calendar entry or just empty your junk mail folder. Once the email is gone, the calendar entries associated with it will disappear too.