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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.
Having the same problem. The best "WORKAROUND" that i found to be able to send out and receive invites properly is to TURN OFF Calendar in iCloud and let your "Mac" handle the routing of invites locally. Also this may be tied to the contact card of the user. Step by step process is:
1. Delete/Remove any Calendar account in iCal; including icloud, gmail. I mean ALL.
2. Close iCal/Calendar.
3. Alternatively, go to Systems Preferrence>>iCloud and UNCHECK the Calendars and Reminders.
4. Next, open Contacts/Addressbook and look for your own personal card with your emails, numbers, address etc. Click it then go to "Card" on the Menu on top, and then click "Make this My Card". Then close contacts.
5. Now open back iCal/Calendar. On the right, if you clicked Calendars, you will see 2 default calendar under "On My Mac". If you have this only. You did it right. You may add additional calendars/calendar headings from here on.
6. Test to see if you can send invites. Create an Event then add invitees. You may try your other email accounts. This should send in the background using your Mail.app. YOu may note that it will use the Email account that is first listed under your "Inbox". For me right now, iCloud is listed first among my inboxes then Gmail then Yahoomail. IN case you will change the order, Calendar will use the first listed email account.
Hope this provides a workaround for some who might want their invites capability in Calendar restored. This however hampers syncing the Calendar and Reminders. What you can do to sync the details is to also send to your iClloud email everytime you send invites.
Could it be that you disabled the email option under icloud settings because you don't use the me.com adress? If so try enabling it and tell me if it worked...
Fixed the problem...
So after apple support failed to make it work I found the solution by reversing what they told me to do.
Go to manage your apple id
Change your Id from @google.com to @googlemail.com
Save and verify the new email
Log back into manage your apple id
Go back and change the email from @googlemail to @gmail
Verify the email
Restart your phone or devices.
Voila! Fixed.
@jasonbrooks
Your solution worked for me!
Thanks!
@jasonbrooks
Genius! Worked for me as well! I only wish I saw your post before wasting hours of time! Thanks!
Thanks stuartfromglasogw, that helped my problem.
iCal does not let you send invites to yourself (although it doesn't tell you that -- it just refuses to add your name as an invitee).
Using Lion I found that suddently I could not add my work email address as an invitee to my home calendar. I couldn't figure out what was going on until I checked my appleid, and lo, my work address was listed as an alternate address. I had forgotten I had done this to authorize use of Messages on my work iPhone.
Once I removed my work address from my iCloud profile, everything started working again.
😕THOSE WHO ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS SENDING OR RECEIVING INVITATIONS/NOTIFICATIONS ON ICAL OR FIND MY FRIENDS APP😕....😁I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!! 100% PROOF TO SOLVE THE ISSUE!!!😀
1) GO TO ICLOUD.COM ON UR COMPUTER
2) LOG IN WITH UYOUR APPLE ID AND CLICK ON YOUR NAME AT TOP RIGHT CORNER
3) CLICK ON YOUR EMAIL/APPLE ID
4) CLICK MANAGE APPLE ID
...HERE IS WHERE YOUR PROBLEM GETS SOLVED...
5) CHANGE YOUR APPLE ID/ PRIMARY EMAIL ADDRESS TO AN ALTERNATE EMAIL AND SAVE CHANGES
6) LOG OUT OF THAT MANAGE APPLE ID PAGE: https://appleid.apple.com
7) CHECK THE EMAIL INBOX AND VERIFY THAT ALTERNATE EMAIL YOU JUST CHANGED YOUR APPLE ID TO.
(NOTE: TO VERIFY AND LOG BACK IN, USE YOUR NEW APPLE ID, BUT USE CURRENT PASSWORD YOU HAD WITH ORIGINAL APPLE ID)
8) LOG BACK IN AT: https://appleid.apple.com
9) APPLY STEPS 5 THRU 7 AND CHANGE YOUR APPLE ID BACK TO THE ORIGINAL
10) REPEAT STEP 8 AND MAKE SURE YOUR ORIGINAL APPLE ID SAYS "VERIFIED"
11) ENJOY RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS AS USUAL...JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
P.S. PREVIOUS TO ALL THESE STEPS, I LOGGED OUT OF EVERYTHING APPLE THAT HAD MY APPLE ID ATTACHED TO IT...I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS NECCESSARY TO DO SO...SO TRY WITHOUT DOING SO FIRST...IT MIGHT SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE!!!
🙂
Thanks so much! This worked for me!
Thanks a lot! It's really working now 🙂
This worked for me, too! Thanks for solving an age-old problem!!!! 😁
The menu was slightly different, and I could not delete the ....@me.com apple-ID as an address, but removing the alternative addresses worked. Re-adding an alternative address did no harm thereafter.
ALFABET YOU F*****G GOD!!!!
I would like to say that this WORKS!!
I contacted Apple on the 31st Jan and was put in contact with an Apple Senior Advisor!!! After 38 DAYS they still had NO idea why this wasnt working and Alfabet just NAILED it.
I'm nearly tearing up because of this fix as its massively important to my business.
Thank you SO much Alfabet!
•if you have an @me account you can't change it, but just delete the alternative email address and add a fresh new one in, then I deleted icloud from my phone and re-added like Peppi77 did!
Thank you ever so much! Worked like a f*****g charm. 🙂
You da man alfabet! I was talking to senior support and engineers for 3 weeks!!! Your post solved it in seconds!! Unbelievable, If apple execs are reading this, you need to fire some of your support people and hire ALFABET!!!!
You had one unhappy customer in me, and this guy alfabet just saved you a client!!
Having real problems with invites from my wife and tried following alfabets instructions above but get stuck at stage 5. How can I change my primary email/apple id? This is fixed isn't it? There is no way of changing this as there isn't a clickable edit/delete in blue like there is for alternate email below it. I have logged in manage apple id between stages 4 and 5 also which i guess i must do and this isn't mentioned in instructions. Please she'll me see where I'm going wrong as its driving me mad and it seems to work for everyone else.
Yeah, Beano, if your primary address is your mac.com/me.com/icloud.com address you can't change it, which seems to be the problem. I have two apple IDs. I use my gmail address as my "main" apple ID, and I use that for pretty much everything. EXCEPT for my apple mail etc, I have to use my mac.com Apple ID. It's super frustrating that I can't just combine them. So I've gone through all alfabet's steps but it hasn't worked for me either.
As it is, if my husband "invites" me to an event using my mac.com address, I'll get an alert in my phone and it works. But if he uses my gmail (which is my main email address and the only one I ever use), I (sometimes) will get an email alert that lets me go to the website and accept the event, etc. I have spent HOURS trying to fix this problem, and this is the best I've come up with. Why on earth apple won't just let us merge everything into ONE apple ID is beyond me.... But one thing you might try is adding/deleting alternate addresses- some people seem to have had luck with that.
iCloud Calendar invitations not working
