iPhone calendar spam

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!!

Solution for me was to search email for the original sender (was on outlook account), delete mail then go to Settings, email accounts and toggle the calendar option for my outlook account sync (and selecting delete local calendar). Toggled back on and re-synced and calendar is now free of the spam invite. Annoyingly, with the original suggestion, when doing the 'Cut' and 'Delete' the Calendar app reponds with 'Delete this appointment and respond to Organiser'... this is exactly what I dont want it to do.... e.g. Confirm account active and welcome myself to some 'suckers list' for future annoyance... does need to be fixed with a 'Delete and do not respond' as this could potentially lead to further exploits / vulns. Not impressed at all.

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

This worked. Went to first event day and held invite down, pressed “cut” and it greyed out. Then went to the next day and clicked each one but this time I could “delete event”, which then deleted the original event and all others. Thanks!!

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!

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.

I went into settings > calendar > accounts > unselect your email DO NOT DELETE IT!

check calendar to make sure the event is gone then go back into accounts (see above) and re-select your email. Go back into your calendar and it should be gone (may take a minute, make sure all of your calendars are selected)

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 just spend 3hrs trying to fix the issue according to some of yours advice, NO LUCK. I spammed every single "winner" e-mail and trashed them but for a while now I can Spam all I want they always send new ones "Yeti" had 30 even after I spammed 12 already.

Anyway, go into SETTINGS- Privacy & Security - Calendars - Google Calendar and hit NONE I hope that does the trick 😊

Gordon hit it on the head. Works perfect. Press lightly on event in the day or week format and hold it till a message shows up. Release and an instruction bar comes up with “cut” as an option. Press and the bar changes its shade of grade. Press gently and hold again. A another bar comes up. Click on “more” and red delete comes up. Click and it is gone. Do not click on any “accept, maybe or decline” links which lets the sender know he or she has a live one. Good luck.

Mine is coming from a junk email folder from one of my Outlook accounts. For me I don’t interact with it in calendar at all. I go into the Apple mail app and delete the items in the junk mail folder.

I wish Apple didn’t let those items show in the calendar in the first place. They don’t show on the Outlook version of the calendar. I also turned off all the preview on calendar Outlook options even though they weren’t showing there anyway try to help the IPad. All the junk just shows on IPad.

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

I successfully deleted it by go to junk email then delete the actual mail they send

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 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.