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Q: no invite button on iphone calendar app?

I have a verizon iphone 4g.  It was just updated to 5.x.  My wife showed me this feature on her phone, where you can invite people to a calendar event.  But it not on my phone?  Any thoughts?

iPhone 4, iOS 5, calendar

Posted on Dec 5, 2011 7:46 PM

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  • by ajfromsan sebastian,Helpful

    ajfromsan sebastian ajfromsan sebastian Dec 6, 2011 11:58 AM in response to gholder4235
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    Dec 6, 2011 11:58 AM in response to gholder4235

    I have exactly the same problem! (even that my wife has and not me... ;-() any idea how to solve?

     

    rgds!

  • by gholder4235,

    gholder4235 gholder4235 Dec 6, 2011 12:57 PM in response to ajfromsan sebastian
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    Dec 6, 2011 12:57 PM in response to ajfromsan sebastian

    Okay so this what I did to make it work.  I have a mobile me account and I went into setting and scrolled down to calendar.  There I opened my mobile me account and turned on the calendar switch and viola I could use invitee.

    Now to get complicated.  I read it could also be turned on with a gmail account.  So previously I had set one up and added it to my phone email.  But when I went to activate the gmail calendar switch it warned me it was going to erase my existing calendar.  Which I couldn't do.

    So if you don't have a mobile me acct maybe you export your calendar then import into a gmail calendar and then activate it on your phone? And have invitee, Maybe.

     

    Note to Apple- Why make this feature so hard to activate?  Just make it standard with the software.

  • by ajfromsan sebastian,

    ajfromsan sebastian ajfromsan sebastian Dec 6, 2011 1:40 PM in response to gholder4235
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    Dec 6, 2011 1:40 PM in response to gholder4235

    Thanks but not so easy...

     

    I have three accounts: icloud, MS Exchange and gmail... all of them with the calendar option ON. When making a new event, if I choose the icloud calendar voila the invitees appears but if I select any other calendar disappears... :-( So I only can invite to people to an icloud calendar which is not right in my case because the MSExchange is the calendar for my company...

     

    the worst thing is that in my Ipad I have the same accounts and the option of invitees appears with any calendar... :-(

     

    I'm becoming really crazy!

     

    thanks in any case...!

     

    Austin

  • by thm22,

    thm22 thm22 Jan 11, 2012 11:08 PM in response to gholder4235
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    Jan 11, 2012 11:08 PM in response to gholder4235

    All,

     

    I had the same problem. It looks like the Invitee tab is only active if you are making/editing an event in a Exchange or in a iCloud calendar. You can set either one as your default calendar, then it will always be there. Or you can switch the calendar on the individual event, in which case it either shows or disappears. It does not matter how many or what type of calendars you have, the event has to either be in iCloud or Exchange. A serious design flaw, if you ask me. What if I'd like to use Google or Yahoo for my may calendar. Then I am not supposed to meet anyone?

     

    T. 

  • by lisafrohio,

    lisafrohio lisafrohio Jan 23, 2012 6:59 PM in response to thm22
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    Jan 23, 2012 6:59 PM in response to thm22

    at least i know i'm not crazy. my husband has an older iPhone and has the ability. why would they eliminate such an important feature. i can't use iCloud b/c i have a POP account.

  • by Alfcomp,

    Alfcomp Alfcomp Jul 1, 2012 9:54 PM in response to gholder4235
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    Jul 1, 2012 9:54 PM in response to gholder4235

    I think if you set up a gmail accounts as an exchange account as opposedto a "gmail" account (in the new account set up dialog,) you will be able to use contacts w the calendar as you are trying to do.

  • by adrien.vion,

    adrien.vion adrien.vion Sep 7, 2012 9:08 AM in response to Alfcomp
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    Sep 7, 2012 9:08 AM in response to Alfcomp

    The link does not work.

  • by avoidspam,

    avoidspam avoidspam Sep 25, 2012 11:09 PM in response to adrien.vion
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    Sep 25, 2012 11:09 PM in response to adrien.vion

    Here is a link that walks you through how to setup an Exchange account for Gmail:

     

    http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740

     

    but there is still a problem. I have done this and yes, the invitees option now shows up, but no matter what email address you enter under the invitees, it does *not* email the invitee the appointment. It does work if it's an iCloud or Exchange server, but will not for Gmail. I am not sure why they are blocking this ability. Very frustrating.

  • by Kaka Dongguan,

    Kaka Dongguan Kaka Dongguan Sep 25, 2012 11:28 PM in response to gholder4235
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    Sep 25, 2012 11:28 PM in response to gholder4235

    My mobile is working well.

     

    Be sure you mark "All Calendars" in your device.

     

    If you want invite someone, I believe he also should have an iPhone, but I am not sure about it.

     

    Also confirm if in Settings>>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>>Calendars:

    1. The option New invitation is turn on. In "Standard Calendar", mark Calendar (from my PC).

    2. You also must turn on "Alerts of Sharing" (I do not know if is the right name in English, since I am currently using another language in my device)

     

    Good Luck

     

    If it helps, please vote.

  • by galos,

    galos galos Sep 28, 2012 10:20 PM in response to Kaka Dongguan
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    Sep 28, 2012 10:20 PM in response to Kaka Dongguan

    Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I can't find all the settings you're referring to. Here is what I was able to confirm:

     

    In Settings>>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>>Calendars:

    - I have "New Invitation Alerts set to ON

    - Default Calendar (is the calendar in question)

    - Shared Calendar Alerts is set to ON

     

    In my Calendar App, I have Show All Calendars

     

    Perhaps some of these were what you were referring to?

     

    In any event, I still cannot get it to send out an invite even though it shows the email for the person I invited. It works perfectly fine for Outlook, but just not Gmail.


  • by Usermom58,

    Usermom58 Usermom58 Oct 6, 2012 2:27 PM in response to gholder4235
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    Oct 6, 2012 2:27 PM in response to gholder4235

    I had the same problem. It looks like the Invitee tab is only active if you are making/editing an event in a Exchange or in a iCloud calendar. I needed to go to settings. then down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars then I needed to change my default calendar to icloud.  Then make sure the new invitation alerts is on.  Hope this is helpful.

  • by cbrr900,

    cbrr900 cbrr900 Dec 24, 2012 5:49 AM in response to gholder4235
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    Dec 24, 2012 5:49 AM in response to gholder4235

    Simple Solution. I had same issue and corrected it on wife's iphone 4 and my 4s. You add gmail as exchange account. All details in following link. Let me know if helped you.

     

    http://support.google.com/a/users/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

     

    cbrr900

  • by galos,

    galos galos Dec 24, 2012 5:55 AM in response to cbrr900
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    Dec 24, 2012 5:55 AM in response to cbrr900

    cbrr900:  no, that hasn't worked. While it shows the option to invite someone, it does not actually send the invite to the person. I have my gmail setup as an exchange account for that reason as well as being able to change the calendar color, but with my iPhone 5 running 6.0.2, it does not work.

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