Shared iCloud calendar notification problems

Thanks again but this soloution then disables ALL notifications, that is not what we want. We would like to see the notifications for our events but not the 'shared calendar' events. On all devices, macs and iCloud the 'shared calendar notifications' are switch to the OFF mode, and we are still getting the alerts.... it is very annoying...

I agree with ozcarwylde2... literally all of the current "solutions" proposed have been tried by others multiple times on this thread.

I might have found a solution, the problem with receiving popup-alerts for my wife's shared calendar drove me nuts for quite a while now.

Especially, since she was not getting any notifications for my appointments on her side. Which made me check differences in the devices' settings.

What I then did was deactivate the "standard reminder settings", which I had set for 15 mins ahead of appointments and 1 day for all day events. She didn't have that setting turned on. When she now adds something to her calendar, I won't get a reminder. Heaven.

The downside is twofold:

First, all previous appointments (added to the calendar before changing above setting) still come with the reminder.

Second, I now have to manually set reminders for my own appointments. But that's worth it.

Hope this helps!

The first problem with previous appointments can be solved by deactivating the icloud-calendar in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar choosing the option to remove all data from the device.

After all is deleted, the setting can be turned on again which will prompt the device to download all calendar events from iCloud. It won't add any reminders, so everything should be fine.

FOUND A SOLUTION! 🙂

Go to settings

Scroll down to iCloud and tap

Then go to Calendars and flip switch off

Had the same problem with my dad we work for the same place and have different umpire schedules so now we can have our seperate schedules and not have to worry about them getting mixed up!

FOUND A SOLUTION! 🙂

Go to settings

Scroll down to iCloud and tap

Then go to Calendars and flip switch off

Had the same problem with my dad we work for the same place and have different umpire schedules so now we can have our seperate schedules and not have to worry about them getting mixed up!

Unfortunately, that means your calendars are not only not shared, but they're not saved to iCloud at all! Sure it fixes the original complaint, but now your calendars cannot be updated on your Mac/PC, iCloud and iOS device and the changes reflected across all devices.

You will, unfortunately be waiting a long time. This used to be trivial in MobileMe (you set whether or not you wanted updates when first accepting the shared calendar), but it's simply not part of the iCloud design.

Don't pin your hopes on it being fixed in iOS7/Mavericks either - I can tell you exactly the same problem occurs.

What helped me was (I am the owner of the shared calendar) to make a new calendar, move the events to the new calendar, delete the old one and then rehare the new one.

To successfully stop shared calendar notifications you MUST update EACH AND EVERY connected device and iCloud.com settings. If any one device (or iCloud) has the notifications turned "on" then you will receive notifications. I had to turn off notifications on my iPhone, iPad and then log in to change my settings on iCloud.com. If you make the changes in all these places then it will FINALLY stop the notifications! It only took me a few hours to finally figure this out :-)

Cmdavis9, you indicate that you were able to stop shared calendar notificiations, but does that include stopping the notifications received via the Calendar App? I believe I have updated each and every connected device and icloud.com settings, but my wife and I still receive notifications via the calendar app in each of those devices (iphone calendar, ical on mac). Oddly, my wife just receives one periodic notification ("David has updated XXX events") while I receive a calendar notification for every single event she updates. If you could detail which notifications you turned off (and where), it would certainly help me and I'm assuming the rest of those on this thread. I think I've covered it all, but could be missing one key switch/notification setting. Appreciate your time and input.

I nailed the problem for me, finally. I'm not sure this is news for everybody but it certainly is for me. I discovered today that the notifications I get from my wife's calendar are in fact my own defaults and not hers. I use a 30 minutes default alarm on all my appointments and my iCal is so configured. My wife does not set alarms for her appointments (she teaches and has regular classes all week long. It drives me nuts).

What had not occured to me until today is that iCal uses my defaults when I subscribe to her calendars. I can diusable everything in her calendars and iCloud, as long as my defaults are on they are applied to her events on my Mac and devices. This is so dumb that it took me something like three years to figure it out.

I'm relieved but so mad at the guy who devised this. Hope this helps some of you.

François, does this include alerts that your wife changed or added events to her events do not show in the inbox within the calendar application on your mac or iPhone? Not just system notifications, but application specific inventation and update alerts?

The constant invitation and event update alerts are the main issue for me. I can stop all the system notifications, but the in app inbox alerts just pile up. It seems the only way to resolve the issue is to make the calendar public and subscribe to the calendar rather than sharing through iCloud, but then the calendar is read-only to the subscriber.

If anyone has any update that stops these types of alerts, love to hear.

Unfortunately no. And I've discovered since my last post that I need to disable default alarams on all my devices, meaninf they are totally local on each device but apply to all calendars. This is really a poor decision.

Until Apple changes it, I will still have to bear meaningless events alerts in my app inbox. But still, I have made a progress...

Same problem, no solution: My wife privately shares her iCloud calendar with me. Although I technically don't get a "notice" on my iPhone (nor an email), I still have to "ok" each of her new events in the Inbox of my phone's Calendar app. Totally annoying and serves no purpose whatsoever.