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Turn off "Updated Calendar/Reminders e-mails"

Hey.

So, recently, iCloud started sending my wife emails whenever I edited a calendar or reminder list. If you click the small, green share icon to the right of every calendar and reminder list in the iCloud web interface, you get an option to switch these email updates on/off. All of mine are switched off.

Anyone else seeing this? It is extremely annoying having your inbox filled up with these meningless messages.

Both of our iPhones are updated to the latest iOS version. Her iMac is still on 10.6 (I have to update it...), but she only uses the iCloud web interface. My MacBook Pro is on the latest version of 10.7. We do not use iCloud for email (we use Google Apps on our domain, just for e-mail now, though).

Thankful for any insight into this annoying problem.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Mar 16, 2012 2:33 AM

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iLuvgeek

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9 points

Posted on Sep 30, 2017 2:05 PM

This is an old thread and the procedures have changed. I am posting this to help people still searching to the solution to this ongoing issue. Here is the new way:

The settings are now tied to Calendar notifications. You need to turn off notifications in Calendar and the reminders will stop spamming you.

Log into icloud.com
Select the Calendar icon (or select it from the iCloud drop-down at the top left)
Select the gear at the bottom of the left column
Select Preferences, then Advanced
Uncheck "Email me shared calendar updates"
Click "Save"

I am surprise that Apple has not been fined thousands and thousands of dollars for vilotating CANSPAM and CASL for not having an "unsubscribe from these messages" link.

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Mar 18, 2012 4:37 PM in response to Community User

It has stopped. Keep fingers crossed that it will remain....

Mar 18, 2012 5:04 PM in response to Mattias Thurfjell

Guess it's fixed. Yay!

moosecow

Level 1

10 points

Mar 18, 2012 6:31 PM in response to Community User

Yep fixed here also.

kritini

Level 1

4 points

Jun 27, 2013 12:29 PM in response to Mattias Thurfjell

For anyone else who wanders across this thread, I found the answer in another thread on this same topic:

open iCloud in a web browser.
Log into iCloud
click on your name in the upper right to open the settings
click on Notifications in the Account dialog that comes up
In the Notifications section turn off the Reminders & Calendar switches.
use the back button in the upper right of the Notifications pane to go back to the Account pane so you can save the settings ****IMPORTANT****
Select "Done" to save the settings <- Make sure you do this!

If you then want to turn Calendar notifications back on you can go back in and turn that back on.

Nov 8, 2013 9:43 PM in response to kritini

i don't get the "notifications" option in step 4. have mac os x 10.8.5. all i can do is change the language, timezone, or reset documents and data.

i actually want to receive email notifications once a reminders list is edited.

thanks for the help.

Mar 14, 2014 6:10 AM in response to brainthedev

same here.

but i really need to cancel these notifications. going nuts.

Dec 17, 2014 3:16 PM in response to kritini

Does not work anymore. Does anybody has another solution for this?

Turn off "Updated Calendar/Reminders e-mails"