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drainsdigest Author

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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 10, 2012 5:57 PM in response to drainsdigest

I sure hope Apple fizes this soon. Lots of married couples are having this issue. Sometimes only in one direction, sometimes in both.

The QA with Apple software has certainly gone downhill this year.

willarr

Level 1

20 points

Oct 10, 2012 6:14 PM in response to Hal Feldman

Totally mostly affecting couples!! 😉 My partner and I are aslo not getting the same. I think that I am getting the emails since I elected to receive emails when changes were made to the shared calendar pre-iOS6/icloud update. However, there is no way to change that now. My partner is not getting anythign.

chuckp27

Level 1

30 points

Oct 11, 2012 7:48 AM in response to drainsdigest

I'm having the same issues, and it's getting very annoying. It's a huge waste of time to constantly dismiss alerts that have nothing to do with me.

Oct 11, 2012 9:36 AM in response to Granite Apple

Ditto, thanks 'drainsdigest' for the updates. Keep 'em coming!

PZnaty

Level 1

10 points

Oct 11, 2012 9:51 AM in response to drainsdigest

It's kind of ironic that when you subscribe to this thread (in order to be notified if a fix surfaces), you'll get your inbox flooded by notifications from people saying "I have the same problem, my wife have the same problem etc". ;)

People, in the original post there's a "I have the same problem"-button. Press that and subscribe to the thread if you don't have anything valuable to add. That way, you won't add to the problem of getting annoying notifications.

Have a nice day. :)

Oct 12, 2012 9:06 AM in response to PZnaty

I didnt know that. Thanks for advice 🙂

Oct 12, 2012 3:26 PM in response to drainsdigest

Add me to the list with calendar frustrations with my signifciant other. I saw, too, that the settings are gone for notifications - but in calendar settings, I have the option to choose email or app notifications when she adds something or invites me. Much better than the email box being filled up.

Apple really has lots of work to do on iCloud for collaboration. They have to know that it is really causing folks to not trust their service for day to day use.

MajorIP4

Level 1

52 points

Oct 15, 2012 10:21 AM in response to Impaler80s

Well as of this morning (10/15) neither me or my wife are getting email notifications at our @me.com address. I actually liked the fact that we received emails for shared calendar changes. Both our @icloud addresses do not yet work so that didn't change. I did notice on icloud.com under calendar advanced preferences for invitations 2 buttons; 1 for in-app notifications and another for email to xxxx@gmail.com which is my Apple ID (which says use this option if your primary calendar is not in iCloud).

I sure hope they give us the option for email notification and/or in-app.

flo127

Level 1

0 points

Oct 17, 2012 11:24 AM in response to MajorIP4

Are you still having this problem ? I'm using iCloud for my work (I actually installed iCloud for my department in a Canadian university) and all my colleagues who have a shared calendar are receiving annoying email notifications... According to them, it started 2 or 3 days ago. Strange point, they only receive notifications when I change something into the calendar (they haven't the right to modify anything) however when the second owner (with the rights to modify the calendar) makes change, nobody receives an email notification, weird.

We are using iCloud either online or with iCal on macbook pro/air.

drainsdigest Author

Level 1

1 points

Oct 17, 2012 6:07 PM in response to drainsdigest

Hello all,

So this morning the Apple Consultant I've been dealing with gave me a call to see if everything had been fixed and to my suprise the email notifications had stopped coming through on the 11th of October (I hadn't noticed before because I'd had them all diverted into a folder and out of my inbox). Having a look over iCloud.com there has been some changes which hopefully means some fixes! (Yay!)

Through iCloud.com -> Calendar -> Preferences -> Event Updates: the ability to tick/untick "Email me shared calendar updates" seems to save now when I log out and log back in (that setting never used to hold). I have now turned this off for my partner and he no longer receives email notifications (although it does still appear in the Invitations tray on the iPhone Calendar app which is annoying).

My partner and I also share Reminder lists (a grocery shopping one, jobs on our home reno etc) and after the iOS6 update on our iPhone's we lost the ability to share/unshare these lists. Through iCloud.com -> Reminders you can now hover to the right of the list name and a share icon is revealed where you can share/unshare the reminder list with someone. Since iOS6 we also started receiving email notifications everytime something was added to a shared reminder list (ie. Tomatoes) which was effing annoying. This seems to have stopped =)

I'm yet to see the effects of these iCloud changes on the iOS6 "New Invitation Alerts" & "Shared Calendar Alerts" toggles in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars on the iPhone. When I get a chance to do this I'll let you know how I go.

Hope others have found the same fixes =)

Duane

Oct 31, 2012 6:55 AM in response to drainsdigest

Hello,

Thank you for all your work on this Duane.

I have been following this thread with the same issues.

I can confirm that the Invitation and Shared calendar alerts still appear on the IOS 6 iPhone even if both are toggled off.

This is very problematic because we have multiple shared calendars that are adjusted throughout the 24 hour cycle, so there is a constant barrage of interruptions and alerts for mere "housekeeping" changes.

There has to be a way for the recipient to control what alerts are received. It appears this is not so with shared calendar alerts (and probably invitations but we haven't tested that feature).

To be clear here, I am referring to automatic notifications, not emails being sent.

Keep us posted.

Oct 31, 2012 6:39 PM in response to Jim Dysart

I agree with Jim. We have been unsuccessful in getting this to work. We still get notifications of changes/updates on our iphones (iOS 6) for our shared office calendar. We have toggled ALL the off switches on both our phones and the icloud website and we are unfortunatly still getting notifications.... any advice? Thanks in advance. Ben

drainsdigest Author

Level 1

1 points

Nov 1, 2012 2:42 AM in response to 10000reasons

Hey Jim and Ben,

Sorry guys can't help you. The Apple engineers actually went into my account and reset my settings which seems to have done the trick. You could try calling them to see if they can do this but it's a massive pain if they need to do this for everyone. It should just work.

Good luck,

Duane

Nov 2, 2012 5:01 AM in response to drainsdigest

Thanks Duane and Ben.

Ben, I haven't tried Apple yet. My concern is it may not be a big enough issue for them to bother with. I don't imagine many use multiplr shared calendars. However, if the software suggests it should be possible, then obviously there is a problem with the software in IOS6. I haven't upgraded my iPhone to 6 yet, but all the new ones have it installed. Very irritating.

We will just have to wait and see what the next update of IOS6 brings.

sflomenb

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54 points

Nov 27, 2012 6:52 PM in response to drainsdigest

I have this same problem. Any ideas?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4548528

Shared iCloud calendar notification problems