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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
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 totally worked for me too! Thank you!
Thank you!!!!! This finally worked to remove TONS of calendar invites that didn’t have a delete option.
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.
Thank you so much for this! It was doing my head in, but now that seems to have sorted it. The same user had invited me to something every day forever and so a few of these actions and I'm sorted. Thanks again!
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 😊
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!!
Out of this entire thread, this is the only thing that worked for me. Long presses on the calendar event only flashed and didn’t bring up any menus. I’m using an iPad Pro (4th Generation) running iOS 17.1.2.
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
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.
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.
Had the same annoying problem and iphone only gave rhe option to decline invite (not fun when spammer sent invite for basically everyday of the year lol). I tried your solution...and it worked! Huge thanks.
/bizcaya
Thank you, that worked !
I was receiving a ton of spam from a fake perfume company, I never even bought a perfume in my life…
those spammers aren’t only annoying, they are also veeeery bad at targeting.
When I take these steps I get a notification that says "Deleting this event will remove it from your calendar and notify the invitees that this event has been deleted". This seems it would also confirm to the spammers that this was a valid email address and potentially invite additional spam events?
Thankyou soo much, it worked a treat for me, mine was already grey, I long pressed it and it went normal?! Then on the same day the first day, I long pressed it again and I was able to delete it, it then deleted the other next two months of every day scams! All gone perfect! It said it was from bulldozer whatever that is? I’ve never heard of it before?? Soo Thankyou very much, you saved me a lot of grief! 🤗
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