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drainsdigest Author

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1 points

Shared iCloud calendar notification problems

Hey all,

My partner and I have a number of shared iCloud calendars which we seem to be having problems with since we upgraded to iOS6 and iCloud.com's upgrade (I'm not sure if there's been an upgrade but things seem different).

At the moment whenever my partner or I add/delete/change and event in our shared calendars the other person is recieving email notifications of these changes. Orginally when you shared a calendar with someone you could choose whether or not you would be notified when they made any changes to it- this toggle seems to have disappeared and we seem to be stuck with the settings we had set with no way of changing them.

Does anyone have any ideas on a work around to this?

In the preferences pane of iCloud->Calendars we've both turned off all the alert and notification settings yet are still recieving emails. Not only that, but we are also getting notifications via the Calendar App on our iPhones despite in Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars having 'New Invitation Alerts' and 'Shared Calendar Alerts' both turned off.

It seems no matter what we turn off (iCloud.com & on the iPhone) we still recieive these emails regarding changes, deletions, and new events.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

Duane

iPhone 4, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 7:24 AM

114 replies

Oct 1, 2012 10:08 PM in response to pvonk

Sorry. I meant to wrie Calendar > Preferences > Alerts

MrTweety

Level 1

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Oct 2, 2012 1:22 PM in response to Navy Nurse

It seems that the shared calendar alerts switch doesn t doanything in ios6 on my iphone 5. And the problem is the same in iclous.com, i recieve notification everu time my wife changes anything in her calendar, could the option be activated or not.

It seems to me it s an Icloud issue rather than an Ios issue.

drainsdigest Author

Level 1

1 points

Oct 2, 2012 5:36 PM in response to drainsdigest

An Apple Senior Consultant will be calling me today after checking this out with iCloud.com engineers. Hopefully I'll have an answer for us soon =)

drainsdigest Author

Level 1

1 points

Oct 2, 2012 6:04 PM in response to drainsdigest

Ok, spoke to the Senior Apple Consultant after he's spoken to the engineers, not too much good news.

In regards to the email and iOS notifications for shared calendars the engineers are aware of the problems and are working on icloud.com and iOS6 to resolve them. At the moment there is no real fix. For the email notifications I've set up a filter in my gmail to filter all noreply@icloud.com emails to a separate folder so they don't crowd my inbox.

For shared reminder lists they're also aware of the iniability to now share/unshare/turn on/off email notifications and it will be fixed in the next iOS6 update.

Sorry there's not too much good news, other than they're working on it.

The engineers are hoping to reset my Calendar preferences and have a bit of a play. Will let you know how that goes too.

Oct 4, 2012 6:31 PM in response to drainsdigest

drainsdigest wrote:

Ok, spoke to the Senior Apple Consultant after he's spoken to the engineers, not too much good news...

Thanks very much for the update; you saved me a lot of time searching these forums and talking to Apple support.

stash1

Level 1

14 points

Oct 5, 2012 10:13 PM in response to drainsdigest

I'm in this same boat. I liked the email notification for shared calendars previous to iOS 6, but now that it has the native calendar notification (which is even better) - I'm stuck getting both the notification and the email, with no way to turn the email off.

Glad to hear Apple is already working on this.

Skiver

Level 1

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Oct 7, 2012 8:30 AM in response to drainsdigest

Thank you very much for keeping us posted 'drainsdigest'!

The shared calendar notification problem has been driving us mad too.

I find it difficult to believe that this is the only thread that I could find on the subject.

Oct 7, 2012 2:07 PM in response to Skiver

Likewise thanks to all including the original post - I couldn't find anything on this at all before and came back the Support pages having had another go at resolving this because it is now getting pretty irritating, to say the least! Hopefully the fix is not too far away 🙂

cpd5215

Level 1

4 points

Oct 8, 2012 5:07 PM in response to drainsdigest

Thanks for the update draindigest...My wife has had it with getting updates everytiime I add or update my schedule. She just want the ability to view it!!!

amilx

Level 1

0 points

Oct 9, 2012 3:09 PM in response to drainsdigest

Hello all.

About email notifications... does anyone know how to receive these email notification on the @me.com email address and not on the apple ID primary email address?

I've tried to change my apple ID from my hotmail.com email to my me.com email, but it doesn't let me...

I don't want to use my hotmail anymore; I want to have just one email address... my me.com address.

Thank you in advance for your help!

TTFN

CRJ1981

Level 1

10 points

Oct 9, 2012 4:48 PM in response to drainsdigest

If you are talking about alerts when a new appointment is added to the shared calendar or edited or deleted then u can turn this off.

Settings

Mail, contacts, calendars

Scroll right down to bottom and toggle 'shared calendar alerts' to 'off'

Oct 9, 2012 5:13 PM in response to CRJ1981

Thanks CRJ181, but the point of this thread is our shared recognition that this switch is broken in iOS6, at least on some devices. Changing that setting has no avail on any of my devices running iOS6.

cpd5215

Level 1

4 points

Oct 9, 2012 5:16 PM in response to drainsdigest

I agree with hilde_dog. I tired the switch last night with no luck. Would Apple figure this out already...C'mon man!!

stash1

Level 1

14 points

Oct 9, 2012 5:51 PM in response to drainsdigest

Just wanted to update this thread for anyone else having my same issue of receiving an email notification as well as a calendar notification on a shared calendar, despite email alerting being turned off at icloud.com. I'm happy to report that my email notifications have stopped and I'm now just receiving the native Calendar notifications when items are added, removed, or edited.

I also noticed my @icloud.com email alias is now usable - coincidental that this fix came around the same time; perhaps this has something to do with it (for us old MobileMe customers anyway).

MrTweety

Level 1

0 points

Oct 10, 2012 3:23 AM in response to hilde_dog

I agree with you and i would add that the switch doesn t work neither on all ios6 devices, neither on icloud.com. I also recieve those notifications on icloyd.com webapp and the option that disables notifications upon new shared calendar events is also effectless. That s why i think about a global icloud problem rather than an ios 6 issue.

Maybe flaw is on the server side not on the device side.And i hope it could be fixed even before the 6.1 update.

Shared iCloud calendar notification problems