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Delete Calendar Invite w/o Response?

I think I saw a few people had a similiar issue, but there were no responses to those. I'm hoping things have changed...😉

So this is my issue: I have my iPhone 4S running iOS 6 synced to my work Exchange server. When I receive a meeting invitation, I accept it on my computer. The invitation remains on my iPhone, however, and I am unable to delete it or acknowledge it somehow unless I Accept/Decline/Maybe again. I'd rather not have to respond twice to a single meeting invitation. I have no option to delete the Calendar invitation on my iPhone.

With iOS5, the meeting invitation remained after I accepted on the computer, but it would disappear after I opened the invitation on my iPhone. Now, it doesn't disappear, so I believe I will have to eventually start scrolling through all of these old invitations.

Anyone have any experience with this and might have some input?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 7:45 AM

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betona

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Posted on Jun 23, 2017 8:30 AM

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.

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Nov 29, 2016 10:31 AM in response to jeegarshah

I tried to click "Helpful (13)" for it to become "Helpful (14)", however, it is greyed out. Some are and some aren't on this page.

I'm new to Apple communities. Is that normal?

wendy_is

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Nov 29, 2016 11:26 AM in response to Keith Gardner1

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.

JensLyn

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Nov 29, 2016 11:43 AM in response to James-Jaie

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.

Nov 29, 2016 12:53 PM in response to JensLyn

The best way to handle it that I've seen is to create a new calendar, move those invites over, and delete the Calendar.

JensLyn

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Nov 29, 2016 1:38 PM in response to andrewbbrown

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...

kenikky

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Nov 29, 2016 6:30 PM in response to Brunellem

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,

Delete Calendar Invite w/o Response?