Jack7513
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Q: iOS 7 adding unwanted alerts to events in Calendar

I have been trying to determine the root cause of an issue with my iOS calendar app for the past few days. I originally thought this was an iCloud issue, but now I believe that a bug was introduced in iOS 7.0.3 that is automatically appending the iOS default alert value to events synced from iCloud, resulting in extra (unwanted) alerts.

 

On all of my iOS devices I have a default alert time of "15 minutes before" in my settings for Events in my calendar.  Since upgrading to iOS 7.0.3 last week, I have noticed that when I create a new event on my iMac with any alert value other than "15 minutes before," my iOS device will show TWO alerts for the event - the one I specified on my iMac as well as the value of the default alert time in iOS.  So instead of getting alerted just once at the start of an event, I get alerted twice - 15 minutes before and then again at the start of the event.

 

However, if I change my iOS default alert setting to None and then create a new event on my iMac, the new event will correctly alert me only at the time I specified.  So, it's a viable workaround to the original issue/bug, but now I have to specify alert times for every event that I create on the device rather than being able to have a default value.  Annoying, but not the end of the world.

 

I was wondering if anyone else happened to notice this behavior in their iOS calendar as well.

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Oct 31, 2013 5:36 PM

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  • by carlsteffen,

    carlsteffen carlsteffen Jul 16, 2015 11:00 PM in response to Jack7513
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    Jul 16, 2015 11:00 PM in response to Jack7513

    I found this article - it may be a solution for some out there:

     

    http://ipadacademy.com/how-to-turn-off-shared-calendar-alerts-on-iphone-or-ipad/

  • by Skripo,

    Skripo Skripo Oct 12, 2015 7:53 AM in response to carlsteffen
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    Oct 12, 2015 7:53 AM in response to carlsteffen

    Looks like this is the solution!

  • by guardian67,

    guardian67 guardian67 Mar 11, 2016 12:50 PM in response to iDebbieD
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    Mar 11, 2016 12:50 PM in response to iDebbieD

    Thanks for posting your shame, Debbie!!! This was pretty helpful. I have yet to confirm, but my situation was all of my calendar events are created using Google Calendar which syncs to iCal. A friend is sharing a calendar with my wife and I. But as of recently, I had been receiving alerts or notifications for her items without warning. While all my notifiers were off, there was a 'hanging chad' option that I wasn't aware of: "TIME TO LEAVE." Wow... Like I said, I have yet to 100% confirm if this solves my problem but I believe it should.

     

    Like many here, all of my notifying options on the shared calendar are off with Google. But somewhere along the lines, I started receiving reminders for events from the shared calendar that I had already indicated I did not want any notifiers for. If you open the event that you are being reminded of on iCal, you can see what the reminder setting is toggled to. I think some were 30 minutes? And it's terrible too because many of the events are re-occurring and toggling 'none' is only good for the one event - you have to set it one by one. So I went to the Settings / Mail, Contacts, Calendars / Calendars / Alert Times and there it was. My options still said 'none' (I changed to 30 minutes and toggled back to none to cover any specific time notifiers) but I toggled off the 'Time to Leave' slider.

     

    It's a pain that someone else's shared calendar usurps your own settings. Hopefully what I did fixes this situation and I hope it doesn't screw up my own personal settings for my own items, but if this doesn't solve it, then I'm just going to say 'forget it' and unfollow the darn shared calendar.

     

    Thanks again, Debbie!

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