iCloud Calendar invitations not working

All the above is informative but not helpful in my case. My wife and I both use the Calendar app on our MacBook Pros, iPhones and IPads. She shares her main calendar with me, and we share a joint calendar for activities we do together. We both can see and edit events on these two calendars.

However, I recently created a third calendar for my work events, and I set it up so she can see but not edit my work events. I sent the invitation to her, but she never received it. She did not get an email. She did not get an alert within her calendar itself. My calendar says the sharing is "pending." Why did she never get my invitation to share the calendar? How can we complete the sharing process, so she can see my new calendar?

This might matter: I created an active iCloud account with an iCloud email address, but she never activated her her iCloud account with an iCloud address, so I am sharing my calendar with her email address for a third-party webhost. Part of me says this is the culprit, but since we already use our addresses to share two calendars without any problems, why am I having so much trouble sharing this new calendar?

FYI, we both are still using Mavericks on our MacBooks yet all of our mobile devices use the latest iOS.

Any help will be welcome. Thanks.

Amazingly this still fixes the problem in 2016. I had to change my apple ID to another email and back, with the additional complication that any secondary email previously used in contact info was not allowed even after deleting them making a new email necessary. worked right away after switching back to my apple ID - thanks!

After all these years and they CANT or WONT fix this issue.

It stupidity.

been looking for a solution on this issue for so long and your workaround worked straightaway, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the info. I am a little worried though. It is very possible that janedoe@gmail and Jane.doe@gmail could be emails for different people. There for the invite could be sent to the wrong person. Have you had this issue or know anything about it?

As of couple of weeks ago it seems, for myself and those I share calendars with at least, that a new issue developing regarding calendar invitations and also the inconsistent way shared events are displayed in shared calendars...

I strongly suspect this more than coincides with some backroom activity going on at Apple regards addressing the recently highlighted issue of spam calendar invitations but so far those I have spoken to deny this.

Problems I have currently:

When create a new event in MY calendar and INVITE my partner she no longer receives an INVITATION ALERT. Even more strangely, examining her calendar "inbox" reveals the invite has already been filed in the REPLIED section and with the status ACCEPT! (it seems iCloud is automatically accepting invites on her behalf...). However... the event is NOT displayed in her own calendar at all. Meanwhile, my own copy of the event in my calendar shows her invite status as "NO REPLY". This is completely bizarre and also works the opposite way - eg if my partner is trying to invite myself to an event. This all used to work fine, albeit with occasional delays In propagating the calendar event data to all of our devices.

I have tried unsubscribing each other's calendars and starting again with regards inviting one another to share our respectvie calendars - no change.

Have also done the usual switching off of iCloud calendars on these devices, deleting locally stored calendar data and switching back on iCloud sync. Again, no improvement. I have found the issue extends also to another party I sometimes invite and who also has a long established iCloud account.

Our iCloud accounts are definitely linked to our Apple ID email addresses so no scope for error there - or so I thought... Another recent, lengthy telecon with Apple Support found me being advised to make sure we both had @icloud.com email addresses added to our contact details wiin the contacts app. I cannot believe this is a requirement and besides we never needed that before.

You can read articles : iCloud: If you’re not receiving event and shared calendar notifications

: iCloud: Receive email about shared calendar updates

Already read those links - neither relevant to my issue.

Thank you - legend! Tried everything but couldn't get to work. Changing primary iCloud email to another an then back worked for me.

this might be a dumb question but how do you change back and forth between primary addresses? I have my main and then 2 alternates listed in my appleid account. do I just login with one of the others and logout??

Thanks.

Thank you so much, Alphabet!

I spended hours trying to solve this problem, but only with your help, in a few minutes this F@#% problem is solved.

THANK YOU!

Shame for Apple Support.