How can I delete an iCal event without notifying the sender?

In Ical, I created a new calendar and named it spam. I then drag and dropped the recurring chinese spam in the new iCloud calendar. I then selected the new iCloud calendar I had NAMED spam and pressed the delete key. It asked if I wanted to delete the calendar and all invites would be notified. There was a button next to that that said delete without notifying. YAY! Done in 10 minutes. And yes, i am noob apple.

I received a very similar calendar invite. I don't have an Apple computer, but I have an iPad, and iPhone, and a Watch, and it's showing up on all three. It's an all day meeting that lasts until the end of September, so it's hard to ignore it and work around it. We need an option to get rid of it without declining it.

Sorry to be dim, but how exactly do I move the invite to the new calendar I've created?

Changing the iCloud preference to convert iCal invites to email has worked well for me. I also came across this workaround for deleting existing spam invites that made it into my iCal before I changed my preference setting. I haven't tried it yet but it makes sense.

Basically, you disable networking, delete the event, then delete the notification from email:

1. Turn off networking on your Mac
2. Delete the event from iCal
3. Wait for the notification to show up in your Outbox
4. Delete email from Outbox
5. Turn back on networking

Once networking is back on, the sync will remove the other events from iCloud and your Phone.

When I delete the "Spam" calendar I just created I'm alerted that invitees of my events will be notified that the events have been canceled, and organizers of events I've been invited to will be notified that I've declined.

Is there truly no way to delete and not notify?

It won't let me move the event. Says "Only the organizer of this event can make changes to it." I was trying to do this on iCloud app for windows as I do not have a Mac and the software is so unwieldy on the iPad, it is impossible. Any suggestions? I may just delete that calendar and hope I did not have any events that I needed. No agenda or list view makes that impossible to tell.

Thanks - that worked for me as well (created a new icloud calendar, named it spam, changed the event to that calendar and then deleted the calendar). Seems the spammers are always just one step ahead of everyone in new tactics.

Awesome! 864 people have found your post helpful, including myself! Since this issue may become more pervasive and, to my knowledge, Apple has no plans to address this issue, I have taken your idea one step further.

I created a new calendar and moved the invite into this Spam Calendar, as you suggested. I then went back into my iCal settings and deselected Spam Calendar from the list to hide this calendar.

Now, whenever I receive spam iCal invites, I can instantly move them into my Spam Calendar and they will not show up on my Apple Callendar!

Since this issue may become more pervasive and, to my knowledge, Apple has no plans to address this issue, I have taken your idea one step further.

I created a new calendar and moved the invite into this Spam Calendar, as you suggested. I then went back into my iCal settings and deselected Spam Calendar from the list to hide this calendar.

Now, whenever I receive spam iCal invites, I can instantly move them into my Spam Calendar and they will not show up on my Apple Calendar.

Thank you, that worked. However Apple does need to have a direct "report spam and delete" for these

You're welcome. This spam problem is spreading like wildfire. If you see a similar thread please share the solution. Thank you. 🙂

And everybody with the problem needs to send feedback at the link below. This is important.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

1. Create a new iCloud calendar
2. Move the spam invite to the new iCloud calendar
3. Delete the newly created iCloud calendar with the spam appointment in it

Deleting that calendar will delete the event. You'll get a prompt whether you'd like to delete the event and notify the sender, or do so without notifying the sender.

Just expanding on previous posts.

1. Create a new calendar in iCal (file - New Calendar ⎇⌘N)
2. drag the invite to the new calendar
3. Right click the new calendar and select delete
4. In the following pop-up select "Delete and do not notify"

Hope that helps others

Strange that, I didn't see that alert when I deleted a couple of these invites via this work-around. I wonder if it's a very recent modification that the spammers have somehow introduced, rather than a feature of the calendar? What OS version are you using?

Interestingly, the "Delete without notifying" option isn't there for me. However I'm on an older version of Mac OS (10.9) and Calendar (7.0) so perhaps upgrading to a later OS will improve things for me.