How can I delete spam calendar invites? The spammers send the invite to my e-mail address and it automatically loads into my calendar. I don’t want to “Decline” because then they’ll know it’s an active email address. And I don’t see a way to delete the invites. I’m using an iPhone 12 Pro, running iOS 16.6.1. There are no “Subscribed Calendars” to delete in Settings, and no random Calendars in the Calendars list.
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 16
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.
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 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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Calendar spam has been a thing for years, not just with the release of iOS 17, as some have said.
It's also not Apple's fault a person has it. The user has to agree to allow the calendar spam to install. Usually, the user is tricked into doing this. Such as a site that has a pop-up stating a simple questions like, "Do you like this site?", with Yes and No buttons. The thing is, neither of those buttons has anything to do with the question. No matter which one you pick, you're really agreeing to allow the calendar to install on your device.
Anyway, Apple has their own video on its removal.
I was able to delete the spam from my calendar by holding down the event and selecting cut. Then I repeated this and it was gone. I also tried to hold the event and select delete but that would have notified the sender
It worked for me. I have more than one email accounts and, calendars for each of those emails. The ones I don’t really use I deleted. Praying they don’t find the ones I use. I will say I started having problems when I synced “Nurse Grid”. I’ve had to contact them in the past about other issues needing tech support. Check if your calendars are synced with an app you’re using. If you can delete. Maybe reinstall. But I don’t recommend that either.
Apple support needs to fix this issue. BrovisB worked somewhat but there is no way to stop it from happening over and over again.
All this began after IOS 17, I regret updating it.. Support needs to install a feature where it lets you block calendar invites
Thanks for the tip clearing junk mail worked for me!
In calendar, select “today” at bottom left. From the today view, long press on the event and select “cut”.
I just got one and I went to my junk mail and trash folders and deleted everything. It disappeared!
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.
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
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!!
Agreed I did one but got another it’s after I updated to there iOS 17 update , first I lost my Wi-Fi which wasn’t fixed until the new update now this , I get enough spam as it is without it hitting my calendar.
Thank you, Thank you!! I was trying everything else and nothing worked. This worked *and I bow*. And by the way, in case anyone is wondering, I was able to "cut" and then "delete" from the same first date listed. Changing to a different date was not necessary in my case.
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