iPhone Calendar sending multiple / repeat alerts

I often get repeated alerts for calendar events on my iPhone. It almost seems like it decides occasionally to alert me for almost every calendar even in the near future whether accepted yet or not. It is difficult to work on anything because it keeps popping the alert on the top of the screen - even when using the GPS (which covers the distance and direction of next turn).


I had to turn off calendar notifications on my Fitbit since it would often send me about 20 reminders at midnight.


Any ideas would be appreciated. I don't think it is related to any recent IOS release as the behavior has spanned multiple major releases (ios 14, 15, 16, etc.)


Posted on Oct 4, 2023 1:12 PM

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Oct 6, 2023 7:30 AM in response to mm-iphone

Hello mm-iphone,


With this going on for so long, that suggests it's more likely to be a settings-based issue than anything overtly software related. So we'd recommend going through the Calendar notifications per Keep track of events in Calendar on iPhone - Apple Support and see if those are set the way you'd expect, particularly when it comes to Alert settings.


Let us know what you find out!

Dec 11, 2023 4:16 PM in response to ShannonM1

I'd like to chime in here because this is an issue with iOS calendar events that has existed for several months. I'm not sure which os update triggered it, but we run our own mail server (Kerio) and at first we thought it was that. But I'm hearing stories of this happening with other servers including on-premise Exchange and O365.


This is becoming a significant issue as we send and reply to many events with consultants and clients. As a 75 person office it's difficult to be taken seriously when we can't even control other businesses getting flooded with duplicate replies.


Kerio replied to my repeated support requests that their hands are tied and cannot do anything about it, as it is an apple iOS issue. We run outlook for Mac on our laptops so I don't know if the issue exists in apple mail as well. Thanks.

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