Disable alerts from shared calendars

I have not been able to find a solution to this problem on my iPhone despite reading all the posts here and elsewhere on it. It's a big problem. No matter what I do, events on shared google calendars cause alerts on my phone.

I give up. I've tried every option I can find on both the Mac and my iPhone and I just can't take it anymore. EVERY little change my wife makes to her calendar, I get an alert on both my iPhone and both my Macs. It's absolutely maddening and after two years of this constant annoyance, I'm done -- I had her remove me from her iCloud calendar.

So frustrating that Apple hasn't addressed this issue when it's so basic.

It really is puzzling why they haven't fixed this yet. People have been complaining about it for YEARS. How hard could it be for them to fix? I can't do it, but I don't know anything about coding. I think they do! Maybe in the next update? (I keep thinking that, but it never seems to happen!)

What exactly fixed the problem? I can't find what you are referring to as the fix.

I have that button selected but I still get alerts from her calendar.

I have managed to turn of alerts from shared calendars in IOS 8, specifically shared calendar changes. The setting is actually in the Notifications settings under Calendar. So Settings>Notifications>Calendar. Near the bottom there will be a Shared Calendar Changes choice, inside that you can change the behaviour of the notifications for shared calendar changes.

This has made my life so much easier since I was receiving an alert for every change my wife made to her calendar. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn of alerts from her scheduled events, but at least I won't be getting an alert every time she changes something.

Yes, this is a good step forward. Once you figure out how to stop the alerts from the events on her calendar, can you post it here? Thanks!

Best,

Scott

I too have tried turning off shared calendar alerts and it doesn't work. I finally found the answer that worked for me!!!

Click on your Calendar app

Click on the word Calendars at the bottom of your calendar app.

Click the little "i" icon to the right of each calendar.

Scroll all the way to the bottom and switch off Event Alerts.

Repeat for each calendar.

Beautiful! Thanks for solving this long-standing problem!

Yeah, I also would ike to be able to see my shared calendars without having to get alerts from them.

And yeah, Apple should have anticipated this.Part of the job of a software engineer or anyone who writes software is to anticipate what the user will do, or will want to do.

I guess the "cobbled together" feeling might be an accidental byproduct of the object-oriented approach to programming since it allows you to use a bunch of smaller programs that you've already written and used for other projects instead of having to rewrite the same code; it can make a software writer a bit lazy. The only upside to the procedural programming approach is that each line of code is made specifically for that program and it really forces the writer to think about what he should do instead of just cobbling together a bunch of older subprograms.

By the way, I know this because I took three semesters of Computer Science classes.

If you use delegates instead of subscriptions to shared calendar you won't get the invitations.

Check in you own calendar settings > delegates