I migrated my MobileMe account to iCloud and calendar invitations are not working. When I create a calendar event and select an invitee an email is not sent to the invitee. I have tried sending invites from iCal on my MacBook Air, iPhone, and iCloud.com with no success. I tested by creating a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID and still no luck. Anyone else having this problem?
This is a very old thread but for the last few posts here is the thread you are looking for with current information.
Re: iCal will not send if location is added to event
Since late November/Early December 2016, many people have not been able to send event invitations when the add a "suggested Apple Maps location" which seems to be blocking the invitation. Read the thread above for other people who have had the same issue.
As i said, this has been happening to me since late November/Early December.
I was manually adding some December/January Calendar events (adding suggested Apple Maps locations) and the inviting a couple family members. After about three invites to events, the invitations stopped going through. One other did go through but it had "TBD" as the location.
Fast foreward: Tonight I removed the suggested Apple Maps locations and left only location names and the invites began to flow! I was able to reproduce it as described above and below in every instance.
1. Both macOS Sierra & iOS 10.2 Calendar apps are affected in my case.
2. It only has happened to me with using suggested Apple Maps locations.
3. I have had no problems with Emojis nor adding notes, only with suggested Apple Maps locations.
I was able to create an event then invite without a location on macOS. After accepting I could modify it on an iOS device and add a suggested Apple Maps location. The the invite would then update to the suggested Apple Maps location for the invitee.
I wonder if my initial action of sending multiple event invites in a short time triggered some anti-spam block in iCloud servers? This began around the same day Apple announced it was going to start actively blocking spam invites. My hope is that I have not been put of some spam list.
I submitted a bug report to the Calendar Engineering Team. It was quick and simple. Hopefully they will find the bug/spam filter issue and fix it soon.
Thats it - thanks a lot.
Eventually useful - also login in "only purchase" Accounts - such you were using the time befor @me or icloud came up .. e.g. name@gmx.com etc.
In my case my purchase mail adresse (also appleID but not using for sync icloud mail, cal, etc.) name@gmx.com has the unverified email adress named as my name@me.com adress (thats the ID i use for icloud sync)
After deleting this unverified ID everything goes fine! iCal events came by push to my mate.
THX
@Apple - seems to be a notice in your support 🙂
Ok, cool, thank you.
One more question:
Where do you reply to the invites: In mail or in Icals notifier?
When I use the notifier the answer is not sent - but if I answer through mail it works fine. ***.
@EricandIcal
I reply to invites sent to my iCloud address (invites sent to my "me.com") via iCal's notifier (because I never receive these as emails).
I reply to invites sent to any other email address (e.g. my non-iCloud Apple ID or any other email address) by clicking on the links in the email I receive (although I can see these as invites in iCal too, I either cannot respond or the response is never received).
I can appreciate all the confusion. Before iCloud came along, I think iCal notifications worked very differently - people could send me invites to ANY of my email addresses and once I'd accepted/declined I'd see a corresponding "sent message" appear in the Mail app (i.e. there seemed to be some integration between iCal and Mail apps). Since iCloud arrived I don't think they're integrated in the same way (i.e. I never see anything in "Sent Messages" now) and it certainly appears that I can only accept/decline messages via iCal notifiers provided that (1) the invite was sent directly to my iCloud email address, and (2) there are no stray UNVERIFIED email addresses lurking around in my Apple IDs.
My advice: if you get an email, respond via the email. If you don't, use the iCal notifiers.
I have the exact same problem. Apple has "sent this to the engineers" when I talked with them last week. It seems isolated to only one account for me...two others still work fine. Issue is still unresolved.
I still have a fatal problem when i send an invite to my work-calendar (where we use Outlook) from iCal on my iMac or my iPhone.
I am not able to accept the invite in Outlook, since iCal or iCloud seems to put the reciepients adress as the sender aswell???
Has anybody seen a workaround for this, or has anybody seen Apple acknowledge this problem?
Actually, I went through ExpressLane and as soon as I told them I had just upgraded to Lion less than 90 days ago, the support call was free.
However, it was about this issue, and to date remains unresolved. 😟
Unfortunately that isn't a catch all. I just tried again and it was unsuccessful.
Solution in this topic worked for me!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3454604?answerId=17319571022#17319571022
Contacting apple support also solved my problem. I Also couldn't remove (or see) that my appleID was registered with an old MobileMe account that was no longer active (Was a 30 day free trial that I didn't continue). I think at one point in december they rolled all MobileMe accounts over to iCloud somewhere in December (as it stopped working for me in December) and my email address conflicted on both accounts...
Support escalated the case and the address was manually removed by an employee and it started working like before.
Same problem here; not receiving invitations in Icloud or Ical agenda, but only via email as an "ics attachment"
Resolved by removing any "alternate UNVERIFIED" email addresses in my Apple ID; log in with your ID (https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa) and remove those email adresses...
Thanks for all the suggestions here in this thread.
It helped me solving this irritating problem!
Thanks
Manus
Yes I am having same issue but all was running fine for awhile. I converted to iCloud months ago. All with invites fine - I do these on daily basis... then all of a sudden the people I was inviting were letting me know they were not getting my invites. I trouble shooted, not a lot of success except, if you put choose the On Your Mac calendar instead of iCloud calendar, it does work. But that's a problem as I need it to be on iCloud calendar so all syncs with my devices. Really frustrating. In theory I would have to create separate event - one for myself and one for my invitees... stupid. Really annoyed. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts.
I'm not sure of the whole response above about SPF record but that's not really helpful. It should be seamless... and it was til just recently. I'm not sure what changed.
Same problem here - the iCloud calendar won't send any invites. In addition, received invites from Outlook/Exchange Server are only shown as ICS files in emails, not as invitations which I could accept/decline.
I guess I will have to get in touch with Apple support (though I have only one @me.com address with no other addresses linked to it).
I got some help from great sources at. Ended up talking to a guy. Didn't pay anything. They wanted me to initially but I said it was an iCloud issue that they needed to address, etc. Turns out I didn't really have a problem! Long story but it's on my husband's end!! Mail will not show the invite sent when you use iCloud as goes from your server to icloud server to recipient server. Technically coming from iCloud and not direct from my isp. anyway, they were a wealth of info and bet they could troubleshoot for you.
Have you tried Express Lane?
Jump start your next support call by creating a case online first. Let us know the best time to reach you, and we'll connect you to an Apple Advisor who has the answers. Put yourself in the driver's seat and check out Express Lane today!
at Express Lane... that's how I got to talking to the right people. they called immediately.
That worked for me too. Thanks.
I had an old apple id username (not email address) that was associated with my new email apple id.
Here's the answer to the issue of iCloud calendar not sending invites ...
Your iCloud me.com email address must be active. Otherwise, iCloud does not have a proper email address from which to send thr invitation.
So on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows, turn on the iCloud mail option and create a new email address @me.com. You can choose to add that email acct to your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows mail accounts, or simply manage it on the web at icloud.com.
If you do not want to actively monitor the me.com email acct, I'd suggest forwrding mail from the me.com acct to an email address that you do actively manage.
iCloud Calendar invitations not working
