Delete Calendar Invite w/o Response?

I would also like to add that I belong to numerous message groups on my Exchange server. I receive invites all the time from users on these lists that I am not required to attend, however, now I am required by my iPhone to reply to every one otherwise it won't remove it from my Invitations List. This is a serious problem and I'm hoping Apple can come up with an option to delete appointments rather than require you to respond. I simply cannot decline or accept to every appointment I receive. I'm already writing tons of emails to users who sent out appointments and want to know why I declined and won't be coming to the meeting, when I am not supposed to attend. This is doubling the amount of work I have to do.

Apple - PLEASE - add a delete appointment option instead of requiring the "Accept/Maybe/Decline" response.

Five years after this was posted and still no good solution. In my case, the calendar invite is from Exchange, meaning it's nowhere to be found in icloud. I completely deleted it from my email and it doesn't go away. What I have is a spam invitation that I don't want to send any reply whatsoever to the spammer.

This is driving me nuts as well. I receive calendar invites for my boss and do not want to accept or decline them but cannot clear them off my iPhone calendar. Has anyone found a solution yet? Hopefully if enough people comment Apple will do something about it!

I had the same thing happen for me. Spam message came into my work outlook account. The email actually went directly to my spam folder so I never even saw it in outlook. However the calendar invite showed up on my phone with no way to delete it without notifying the spammer.

What fixed it is that I went into Accounts & Passwords -> Exchange -> Uncheck Calendars. This will remove all calendar items and invitations from the phone. Now turn it back on again and your phone will re-pull everything back in. But this time no spammy calendar invite showed up.

I'm using iOS 11.

The workaround is to temporarily delete the Calendar(s) from your device. Then resync the Calendar(s) from the server. Instructions:

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars

Tap on the offending account in the Accounts list.

Turn off Calendars for that Account by tapping the On/Off switch next to Calendars.

It will ask you if you want to remove the Calendars. Click "Delete". This only removes the calendars from your iPhone/iPad, it does not delete anything on the server.

Now tap the On/Off switch again to turn Calendars back on.

The iPhone/iPad will redownload all appointments and other calendar data from the server. Because it will redownload all calendar data, I would recommend you do this when attached to wifi, rather than over the mobile network.

Chuck

Brilliant solution! I just need to buy a Mac to delete appointments from my iPhone that I don't want to reply to!

It's so ridiculous that this bug (yes, it's a bug) hasn't been fixed yet! Why can't Apple just give us a 'delete' option?

I have the same issue. Received a spam calendar (how is that possible? is apple listening?) request that I can accept or decline. In both cases e-mail will be sent to spammer. I do not want that. whats the way out?

I too had a pesky recurring Invite from 6 months ago which I was unable to delete on my iPhone 4S (IOS 7.1.2). After reading the different responses, I was hesitant to delete my entire "Work" Calendar which would have solved the problem but would also have deleted ALL Invites and All Meetings when I only wanted to get rid of the one Invite. After a few minutes of thinking (a bit of a challenge for me 😉), I came up with the following workaround leveraging the "delete the Calendar" solution:

1) Create and Save a new Calendar called "Junk" (or whatever name you like)

2) Open the Invite you wish to get rid of

3) Change and Save the Calendar on the Invite to "Junk"

4) Delete the Calendar "Junk"

Hope that helps...

I would like to know the same thing. I just receive an ICLOUD calendar invite from someone I do not know. I do not want to reply. It is spam since the invite is repeating all over my year with *no end date*. What's worse it's not in my inbox so I am very curious how I even received this. Could someone have sent a malicious text message with a calendar invite and even though I didn't open it could it have linked to my ICLOUD calendar?

Based on stackexchange post I tried a workaround and it seems to have worked.

Create a new calendar. Move the problem event to that calendar. delete that calendar. There will be a prompt and one of the button is delete without notify.

but apple needs to make sure calendar cannot be spammed.

Had the same problem. Found it was a spam invite coming in via my icloud "work" calendar which I don't use. I deleted that calendar and it went away. Now what is really needed is a way to delete an invite without sending an accept or decline to the invitee.

I did the "phone Spammer" trick and this one too:

1. Open the Calendar Application

2. Navigate down to Calendars, then tap "Edit"

3. Add a Calendar to the list using the same button

4. Give this new calendar a name (like "Spam").

5. Double-tap "Done" to return to the calendar

6. Open the spam invitation

7. Tap towards the bottom on "Calendar"

8. Select the newly created "Spam" calendar so there's a checkmark next to it.

9. Uncheck original calendar that spam was on.

10. Repeat steps 6 - 9 for all spam invitations.

11. Now navigate back to the Calendars page (steps 2).

12. Select your "Spam" calendar.

13. Scroll to bottom and select "Delete Calendar"

No more spam invitation showing and you did so without hitting "Decline".

Just tried it, not sure how long it will work for, and I think this is complete horse-sheet that Apple doesn't have a "Spam" or "Delete without replying" button! Tells me Apple is getting money from companies that use spam to allow such crap to take place!

Wow -who knew I'd ever appreciate the annoying workaround I had in IOS5! I seem to be forced to respond to a meeting that occurred last week. Hopefully, I'm just overlooking something really simple.

My users are having the same issue in Exchange 2010. It also seems to leave appointments unread in their inbox after they have been accepted. In IOS 5 it would move the appointments to their deleted items folder, but still leave them as unread. This was somewhat acceptable, but now it is unmanageable.

I am having the same issues. I have deleted an appointment in my Inbox (because I noticed it after the appointment passed) and it's still showing up in my Invitations. I do not want to select "Maybe", "Decline", or "Accept". How can I delete this invitation without having to chose the available options? I wouldn't mind Declining, but I know it will send an email to the person who sent the appointment - which I do not want.

BTW, I do get numerous appointments from various divisions on my company's Exchange (2010) server. I simply cannot keep declining all these appointments. I need a way to delete them without having to respond.