Calendar:Declined events show up as accepted in iCloud

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Calendar:Declined events show up as accepted in iCloud

Hello,

I use Mountain Lion (problem is the same in Lion). When I decline an event invitation in calendar, it gets a grey icon and in the details I can see that I declined the event. I don't get any alarms either. So far so good. But on my iPhone and because I shared the calendar with my wife also on her iPhone the event shows with the color of the calendar, as if I accepted. In the details I see that I declined...I could accept the wrong color but I get alarms for those events too! Also on icloud.com the color of the events is wrong (blue in my case)...

Anybody else has this problem? Any suggestions? Is it a bug?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 7, 2012 1:34 PM

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Answer 1

Picador

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Jan 22, 2013 4:36 PM in response to pasqualito_23

Did you ever get any advice on this?

btw, a related issue is posted to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4416711 (*though no answer there, either)

and here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3315425 (*no answer)

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Answer 2

Jan 23, 2013 12:28 AM in response to Picador

Hello Picador,

no advice...but I sent the problem to an apple support guy who said that he'll forward the bug report to the right people.

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Picador

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Jan 23, 2013 10:50 AM in response to pasqualito_23

Actually, upon further poking around -- I think it is not so much a bug as an (important) missing feature:

In iCal on MacOS, under the "View" menu, there is an option to show or to hide declined events. So I-- and I guess you and I think many people-- choose sensible to hide declined events. (*Why do I want to fill my calendar with things I am not doing?)

But iOS does not offer this option; and iOS seems to default to "show declined events". And for this reason, our iOS devices do not show the same content as our desktop devices. And this makes it feel, from a user point of view, like it is broken -- because functionally, it is broken.

(*Note that this seems to be a fairly old issue: in addition to the links above, there are also posts on this topic going back to users of mobileme -- and none of the threads have any comment from Apple, which is disappointing as attention to usability is generally the distinguishing feature of their products...)

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Picador

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Jan 23, 2013 10:55 AM in response to Picador

btw, still another unanswered topic:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4045775

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Answer 5

Jan 23, 2013 11:05 AM in response to Picador

Hello,

The feature to hide declined events in iOS is mssing, right. The bug is that declined events are shown with grey icon in MacOS but shown with blue icon in iOS (which is the color of accepted events). The missing feature is no real problem for me, but the bug is a pain, also for my wife with my shared calendar.

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