Delete Calendar Invite w/o Response?

I had some calendar appointments (recurring), invited by somebody else, that were not applicable anymore.

I could not delete it from within the calendar app in my iPhone.

However, I was able to do it on a computer when I logged in into iCloud. There was a delete button.

After that, my iPhone synced automatically and the appointment was gone. 🙂

The iCloud solution seems to only work for that particular calendar. But for all the other calendars synced on our various Macs and devices, we have to accept/decline each meeting on each device, sending out multiple responses to the same thing. This is driving my colleagues bananas.

Just to keep this alive with my 2cents ... we desparately need a "dismiss" option on the iPhone. I've already replied. I don't want to reply again. Thanks for the reminder, now go away quietly.

Basic, right? Possible? Not on the iPhone.

I'm on 6.1.4 with Exchange 2013. On the desktop side I'm Windows 8/Outlook 2013. I followed the advice of deleting the calendar from my iPhone and adding it back (while on WiFi) and that seems to have fixed the issue for me - now if I accept the meeting invite on my PC the iPhone recognizes the response and dismisses the invite.

Chuck444 - thank you for the workaround.

I called Apple Support and the initial person I spoke to said that the person who sent the invitation "has the right to receive a reply" (no, not if they are spamming me and I do not know them!!).

I asked to be given to a developer or another person - and they are checking.

Your work-around does indeed help for a local system (mac computer).

Sadly, the notification still exists in my icloud.com web interface under calendar.

Thanks again Chuck444 for posting this work-around (works for a physical computer, awaiting/researching method to fix for the icloud.com web interface).

I am tired of apple's games. It's MY phone. I don't have a right to clean up my calendar because someone else has a right? Also, that somsone else has messed the invitation up and resent a recurring invite 10 times. So half of my calebdar is his invitations FOR EVER!

This was the last time in my life I bought any thing apple.

Just loaded IOs 7.0.4 and now have an OK button on the calendar invites on the screen that lists all the invites. I did not go into the detail of the invite (that has the accept / decline / maybe). All the invites on the phone are invites I have already accepted on my PC. I click OK and the invite goes away!!!!!

Have not tested functionality on an invite that I have not accepted. If anyone else does please update this post.

I just loaded 7.0.4 and the issue still exists for outlook invites you delete in outlook without responding still showing up in your iPhone calendar inbox as "new" with no ability to respond.

In terms of the feedback given to one user by Apple about how the organizer "deserves a response" these are meetings I'm not even invited to and are instead someone forwarding me an invite and asking me to put together a proposal or other meeting item for them so I would NOT want to respond to the invite and instead just want it gone/deleted so a fix is most definitely necessary apple!

Correction to typo above: the deleted invites still show up in my iPhone calendar (after deleting in outlook without a response) with no ability to DELETE the invite from my phone. I'm forced to respond or else it stays as a new notification. I even tried permanently deleting the invite from my outlook mailbox and re-syncing my iPhone calendar, still there as a new invite on my iPhone calendar. Again, these are situations where I was not an intended invitee to the meeting and instead someone forwarded me the invite so I am NOT to accept or decline the invite due to negative implications of an uninvited attendee suddenly declining an invite they should never have received.

Found a work-around: From a computer, you have to go to your outlook calendar and the meeting day where the invite displays as pending a response and delete it from your outlook CALENDAR, not just delete the invitiation from your inbox and trash. You'll be prompted if you want to notify the organizer and you can say you do not. Then re-sync the iphone calendar. It would still be much easier if apple would just add a "delete" option to meeting invites in the iphone calendar so you can delete without a response.

I am really surprised that Apple has let a *bug* like this continue. I definitely need a local (iPhone only) 'Dismiss' button. I have heard many people in the corporate environment cry about this missing option.

I moved the calendar app into the vast wasteland of the fourth screen. That way the red dot overlord is winking its pitiful existence out in no mans land. By no means a solution, but it does remove it from line of sight.

Hate to resurrect an old thread but I found the most simple solution is the most obvious. On my Mac in Calendar.app, while in month view you will see the pending invitation displayed in gray on the date of the event. Simple right click and select delete. This removed all traces of the invitation.

The only real solution I know is TURN OFF OS-X Calendar in accounts and install Sunrise instead. iOS has no real problems handling it, thought when you go to inbox (in calendars) and look at past replays there it is a mess of things, tough could be useful potentially.

For OS-X I guess we are out of lick and I have to look at box reminding me that I have 71 invitations which I already may have replied to.

Sunrise, looks very similar, is free, from Microsoft and it does not have this problem.

Most of the work arounds here are unfortunate and some do not even work. I have 71 meetings a day which I have to click on "OK" or respond. It is total mess. I do not want to move them or delete them since I also need a record of what meetings we did and when.

Sunrise for now...

These are the things that keep me from using my iPad as productivity / business tool and Mac replacement. I cannot even work with calender in a reasonable way.

Currently I have several business meeting invitations hanging around in my IOS calender which I already replied to from my work Outlook. I really do not want to reply again. This is also true for work calender invitations I forwarded to my private email/calender from my work Outlook. I really do not want to reply to the invitation, creating an email from my private email address to my work collegues / customers.

My workaround is to disable network access, accept the invitation and then delete the outgoing email.

This is just required to use an IOS device in a work environment. I really cannot understand that there is no progress over all those years. The same with multiple Exchange calenders, wich appear in calender on MacOSX, but not on IOS calender. I cannot even see my Exchange travel itinary calender on my iPhone.