Delete Calendar Invite w/o Response?

This worked for me after getting a spam email invite - thanks!

Annoyingly when you do delete the entire calendar it does actually prompt you to "Delete & Notify" or "Delete and Not Notify", I mean c'mon!

Shoot now I'm getting photo sharing invite that I can accept or decline only. I cannot ignore!

And the source of spam seems the same thing that added calendar entry. This is insane... I do not want to get unsolicited invites.

I only looked because it is imperative a solution is given. Yesterday I was spammed and it repeated the same message, all-day time frame again today. Responding could mean virus, so exactly how does Apple expect its user to proceed? I am not at all happy that I don't have the freedom to remove something without completely removing everything. Apple, are you ever going to respond? This is now URGENT for all of your users!

I have the same problem, but it's not just calendars - I also get people trying to share photos with me. There's no way to delete these invitations other than declining as far as i can see. It's a form of spam that Apple seem to take no notice of whatsoever.

I also received a spam calendar request that I can accept or decline. In both cases e-mail will be sent to spammer. I do not want that. I was able to turn of iCloud calendar, delete sync data, and it removed the spam invite from my iPad but it's still on my iPhone with no red bubble. It would be good to be able to swipe and delete/block/report spam invitations. 😉

I just started having this problem as well, with Black Friday spammers. It's kind of infuriating that you can't block them or even get rid of the invite, you just have these spam events sitting in your calendar. I'm not going to fiddle with making new calendars and deleting them, that's silly - Apple needs to fix this asap.

Apple, please add the ability to mark an invite as 'SPAM'. This way, users can discourage spammers. Or add the ability to delete an invite without responding to it.

As it is, the most obvious way to get rid of the invite is by responding to it, which in the case of spammers, is the worst thing one can do, since the spammers now have verified that there is a person at the other end.

Simply creating a new calendar to move spam invites is a clumsy and non-intuitive solution.

Very Helpful! Thanks🙂

I totally agree with your statement. It is ridiculous that there is no "Spam" or "Delete" available on the Calendar App and the Mail App is a joke at this stage. I have been using Apple cloud service from the time is was me.com and in my opinion all that iCloud has achieved is linking all the services together resulting in multiple access points for Spam to be received.

Had this happen the other day, an Event Invite appeared on my Calendar on iPhone / iPad iOS 10.1.1 and there was no obvious way of safely deleting it without the sender being notified of a response. this was obviously Spam as written in Chinese for a start! How on earth did it get onto my Calendar in the first place 😠

Checked settings and under Calendars and Events found in Apps is switched OFF

There seems to be no similar way to switch off Events found in Mail or Messages

The deeply concerning thing is, that a notification for this Event appeared on the Calendar. I have received no recent Spam Email or Texts. Could it be that the notification for the Invite only pops up on the day of the event, so the Event itself could have been inserted a while back?

I do not use Gmail Calendar.

Thankfully I found the solution in this thread, to create a new Calendar, move the unwanted Spam rubbish onto it, then delete the new Calendar. What a performance though!

Apple really need to give us a Delete option. Accept, Maybe, Decline is just not good enough as they would send a notification back to the Spammer.

However, when you select this option, the pop-up dialog box clearly states that the organizer and all recipients will be notified, and there is no option to suppress notification here. This is not a solution.

The solution has been mis-stated several places, but what worked for me was to log in to my iCloud.com account from a computer (i.e. not an iOS device), create a new Spam calendar. Then go to the desktop version of the Calendar (I was not able to try this part from an iOS device so can't confirm whether that would work as well), double click to open the event(s) in question, change the calendar (the colored dot at top-right of the info window) to your Spam calendar, and close the event. You should see the count in the Spam calendar increase by one for each event added. When you're good and ready, you can delete the Spam calendar from the desktop Calendar app, and it will give you the option to delete without notification, which is what you want.

It seems possible too to simply not display the Spam calendar, so the events would still be there but you won't see them. You'd only see them if you enable the display of that calendar, or log in to iCloud to see them. This way you don't have to keep recreating and deleting the Spam calendar.

Also don't forget the suggestion to divert any future calendar requests to email rather than calendar. Maybe that way you can filter them more easily.

Another very helpful tip, which I have just read on David Sparks's MACSPARKY(dot com) Blog entry for November 27th 2016 is this, I shall quote ....

Move to Email Notifications

If the problem continues, the best solution is to go into the Calendar screen of your iCloud.com account and throw the lever to move calendar invitations from the calendar app to email. Then you can delete emails before these things ever hit your calendar. The below gallery walks you through the steps to do so.

He does illustrate this with screen shots. Very helpful as it appears to be the only way to stop these pesky things getting onto the Calendar in the first place.

Sorry to reply to a post thats almost two years old....i just can't help myself.

When I do as you describe James-Jaie i get a promo to confirm the deletion of the appointment, where it is explained that the originator will be notified.

Unfortunately this will give the originator an indication that your address is active, which almost certainly will increase the rate of the invites. In the very least the response will make the originator able to document your address as active, when/if the person sells your address to more or less shady individuals.

So the whole point of wanting to delete the invites, instead of declining them is kind of lost.

At least thats how i view the issue.

Thanks its also the best solution I have seen so far :-)

I guess I'm just mostly annoyed that the spam gets through and that we're not able to simply delete it without revealing that the account is active.

Perhaps we should just wait for a solution...

Thank you so much for that info on the work-around. I had an invite that I neither accepted nor declined. I had no idea how it even got put on my calendar. It was driving me crazy that I couldn't delete it. Thanks to you, it's finally gone. I've saved the steps you outlined for future use in case it happens again.

Thanks,

This is driving my users at work crazy... There has to be away to mark these as 'read' or otherwise remove the Invitations. Please advise if you find a workaround.