How do I block spam calendar invitation emails?

I didn't see it at first, either. Folks: the most helpful thing when you have a solution is to offer the exact steps for performing the task. That will save a lot of questions.

To do this:

Log into iCloud

Click on your Calendar

With Calendar open, locate the gear icon in the lower left corner and click on it.

Click on Preferences

Click the Advanced tab; down at the bottom of this window is the option to send invites via eMail.

Then if/when you receive an invite to your mail account, you can mark it as spam from there.

But bottom line, it's up to Apple to fix this very serious loophole. And they need to do it fast, as it is compromising everyone's confidence in using iCloud.

Thanks, Drew.

So, hopefully, no more cheap RayBan events.

Your last paragraph is exactly 'on the money'.

Kind regards

JB

But how to get rid of existing events??

I'm having the exact same issue. I was hoping I could create a contact and then block them, but no luck.

I wasn't able to move the invite to a Spam calendar (it was set so only the organizer/spammer can do that), but the invites ended up in my "Home" calendar, which I don't use. So deleting it actually was a one-step process. I did re-create the Home calendar though, so any others that might get through will also go there. Hopefully setting invites to come in via email will allow me to block the sender altogether.

Apple, please take care of this soon!

Thanks Drew!

Check down below for a post from DrewYonkers. It precisely describes a way to mitigate this until Apple gets a solution in place. I received only a single invite which I didn't respond to and haven't received any more, so perhaps they're fixing this on the server side with a spam filter of some type...

It looks like, ridiculously enough, Apple has no possibility to block these spammers on OS X. I added a special 'Spammer' contact in my address book, but I was unable to block it.

Thanks for responding but that doesn't work.

joeyf76 wrote:

But how to get rid of existing events??

Delete them.

mschipperheyn wrote:

It looks like, ridiculously enough, Apple has no possibility to block these spammers on OS X. I added a special 'Spammer' contact in my address book, but I was unable to block it.

There is an option to not receive them in the first place though, just turn this to Never (in Mail>Preferences>General)

The "help" from some of us is only confusing the rest of us.This is not the only thread on this topic. Hundreds of users are complaining elsewhere all over Apple Discussions.

It has been difficult for me to experiment with the differences between what some of you are seeing, because it has to do with which version of OS X (or macOS) you use. Some versions of it behave differently.

For example, DrewYonkers' post is confusing a lot of people, because he is missing steps in his step-by-step. For most of us, there is no "gear" icon in Calendar, as he describes, and his screenshot is not the same as we see.

Also, in the many threads on this topic, the "help" sometimes refers to steps on iOS without saying it is on iOS, and sometimes on OS X without saying it is on the desktop version of Calendar. Then there is the difference between settings on iOS 9 and settings on iOS 10, and between OS X and macOX.

Bottom line, not every screenshot in this thread will match what you or I see. It's up to Apple.

Quote: There is an option to not receive them in the first place though, just turn this to Never (in Mail>Preferences>General)

This doesn't work, since I have had it set that way and still receive calendar spam.

Turning off "Add invitations to Calendar" in Mail does not block them.

Works for me consistently, I have never received a calendar invite since I first installed iCal and now Calendar

Al Hatch wrote:

Turning off "Add invitations to Calendar" in Mail does not block them.

And I never said that it does, it just stops receiving them.