How do I block spam calendar invitation emails?

You can stop them from putting invites on your calendar if that is what you want.

For the time being, maybe we can suggest that Apple add an option that would allow the direct entry to calendar only be activated for the contact list members, like they have done for other features (i.e. Do not disturb). I know this isn't a fix, but most calendar invites come from contacts anyway.

The user (you) has to allow direct calendar entry, if he/she doesn't this house of cards falls down. Why do you allow direct calendar entry?

It was enabled by default.

Zickzilla1 wrote:

It was enabled by default.

Why don't you turn it off?

I did. The issue still needs to be addressed. Even under the options, it still sends the invite to mail. BTW, the iCloud address this was sent to has never been given out to anyone.

Joseph Zicherman

Sent from my iPhone

Then you can just delete the mail until some other method is provided.

The answer from Ferd II is not on point. These invites are coming into iCal directly. There is a listed email address, but of course replies to that address bounce.

There has got to be (or there should be, Apple!) a feature for blocking automatic calendar requests. Once someone gets your email address on some list, these will only increase in number and annoyance, I'm sure.

- Robert

I never use or give out that iCloud email address either and I think that is the case with most people. So the question is, how did this sunglass spammer get hold of all these unpublished iCloud email addresses?

Robert Sette wrote:

There has got to be (or there should be, Apple!) a feature for blocking automatic calendar requests. Once someone gets your email address on some list, these will only increase in number and annoyance, I'm sure.

- Robert

There is, turn off 'In-App' notifications.

This can only be done in the Calendar>Preferences>Advanced section on the iCloud website, after that is done you will get emails notifying you instead of Calendar entries.

Robert Sette wrote:

The answer from Ferd II is not on point. These invites are coming into iCal directly. There is a listed email address, but of course replies to that address bounce.

There has got to be (or there should be, Apple!) a feature for blocking automatic calendar requests. Once someone gets your email address on some list, these will only increase in number and annoyance, I'm sure.

- Robert

The OP's question was/is not related to the current flood of invitations. It was a phishing email. Expecting that answer to be "on point" is "not on point." The evolution of this thread has missed the point of the original question. There are plenty of other threads in this and other ASC Forums which are "on point." Lurkums has provided the only current solution(s) which can be taken by the user. Until Apple fixes the problem, which it appears they are working on, you will have to use the kludge solution.

In regard to the question asked by bre bro, the spammers are simply guessing possible addresses, as can be seen in these images posted in other threads:

This link provided by stevejobsfan0123 also provides some advice the user can implement until Apple provides a better solution.

This is an easy fix. Go into phone setting and then select calendar. Scroll all the way to the bottom and uncheck "Events found in Apps."

Since updating to Sierra, noticed settings in "old" apps like "Mail" didn't work. Had a lot of sorting "Rules" that sent mail to various Mailboxes, added colored banners etc. None of those Rules worked properly after updating to Sierra (Rules that sent mail to specific Mailboxes or Archives actually got changed to send to others!)

Well guess what? Settings also got changed in the "old" Calendar app! I'd created "Home" & "Work" calendars (before iCloud "Family" calendar came along). Both Home & Work were always PRIVATE calendars. Today logged on to Calendars via internet to get rid of spam invites. Happened to click on the Share icon for Home Calendar & it was set to PUBLIC!!! As was Work Calendar!!! (Family was still Private, so changed it to default calendar).

Not only that! When I clicked on Share icon for Home/Work calendars, after DE-selecting Public Calendar, I checked out/clicked on Private Calendar [Sharing] - you can Add Person to share - started typing in my name & it brought up a whole list of "Recents" - including email addresses of spammers I'd blocked in Mail!!!! What the?? (And what exactly does that mean?)

Thanks Apple!!! Whoever wrote your code for the Sierra update must have slipped in a back-door vulnerability (?on purpose?). Now my Private Calendars have been public & spammers have my e-mail address.

Make sure your Calendars are still set to PRIVATE if you updated to Sierra!

Incidentally, deleting spam invites by creating & deleting Spam calendar worked well. Also changed settings for all invites to go to e-mail, hope that's the end of this. Really disappointed with Apple - SO careless of them!

btw, turning off "Events Found in Apps" in Calendar settings on all devices does NOT prevent these Calendar spam events from getting on your Calendar [if any of your Calendars have unknowingly been reset to PUBLIC]. That was 1st thing I tried.

So far so good since resetting Calendars back to PRIVATE/making Family Calendar the default Calendar.

I hate being hacked

Having the same issue, and nothing is fixing this.