iCloud Calendar invitations not working

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.

Well, none of the previous "solutions" worked for me. But I solved the issue for myself, and I believe I might have discovered a bug in the process...

My wife and I - both Yahoo mail users, using said accounts as our Apple ID - were having issues sending each other calendar invites in-app. Sometimes we'd receive them, sometimes (and more often) not. Today, I discovered that the ones we were NOT receiving from each other had a Location tagged the event. If we sent each other an event with the Location field empty, we'd receive the invite in-app without fail.

So, again, if we create an event and add/tag a Location in that field, then add an invitee, the invitee would not receive the invite in-app. If we either deleted the Location and left that field blank, or else sent a new event with the Location field blank, the invitee DOES receive the invite in-app. Every single time.

I Discovered when ever you send an invitation which contains an address the other party doesn't get it!

i Have to send invitation plain in simple, no address, for it to work. Than I can add the address for my calendar but the other party does not get the updated invitation...

discovered this issue in November and tired of it......

I am having the same issue sending an invite from my icloud calendar to my wife's icloud calendar. However, I can manually put in a location and as long as I don't click on the autofill field (which also put the map location in) the invitation is sent. If I click on the autofill then no invitation is sent.

For example if I type Starbucks and click on the Starbucks address that gets autocompleted, no invite is sent. If I type Starbuck and don't complete the address, an invite is sent. Maybe there is a length limit on the location field that was applied in the cloud recently that is causing some sort of error and preventing invites to be sent.

I'm happy that I can send invites now. I'm not happy that I can't put in full addresses into the location field anymore !!!

Amazing that this problem is 7 years old. Unfortunately for me none of the suggestions in this thread helped me. I still have trouble sending invitations and there is no pattern I can figure out. Spent a few hours on the phone with Apple which was a waste of time.

Robin, thank you! My family uses iCalendar except for me who uses Google Calendar. Unable to receive their iCalendar invites has been a pain for a couple years. Your post fixed the problem. Thank you!

Best,

Andy

Hope that by now that you've solved your problem, if not you can try using the phone number associated with the apple id 🙂 All of the suggestions here didn't work for me either. So my last resort was to just try and send the invite to the phone number, including the land code and that worked instantly!

Hope this helps anyone else as this seems a problem that's still happening.

I chekced again this morning, and now it seems to work for me.

Best regards,

Kasper

Still not working for me. I have my iCloud email turned off, but even when it was on it didn't work.

Still not working for me. I have my iCloud email turned off, but even when it was on it didn't work.

Same here; invites not working here after MobileMe to iCloud migration, this was working fine in MobileMe... 😟

It's not working for me too.

Mine appears to be working now, though they're showing from an address not associated with my Apple ID...but a legit address. Weirdness...

Try going into iCal on your Mac and resending the invitations to the other iCloud (formerly MobileMe) users. Because people migrate at different times, the calendar sharing didn't make the transition and won't work between MM and iCloud. Once I resent sharing invitations and my wife and daughter responded from their iCals on Lion machines (and after migrating to iCloud), then all was good.

Solved it.

Here's what I did.

- Settings

- Mail, Contacts, Calandars

- On this page my default calandar was set to the local iphone calander. Changed it to iCloud calander and that was the solution