I've just received a calendar invite for a sunglasses sale from a random chinese email address. I don't want to accept or decline it as that will show that I responded. I can see many other email addresses that have been invited so they can obviously see mine as well. How can I block this to ensure I don't get it again and my email isn't viewed by everyone??
MacBook Air, iOS 10.0.3
I spoke to Apple Support earlier. They confirmed there's nothing you can do. (which even the support guy was surprised about!). Currently if you select delete a decline notification is sent to the sender. Basically replying. So you have to ignore the calendar invite and leave the item in your calendar. The support guy was going to raise it as a unresolved item and suggested I use Apple Feedback to raise it from my end also. which I did. Completely unacceptable that Apple does not protect its calendar app users.
I spoke to Apple Support earlier. They confirmed there's nothing you can do. (which even the support guy was surprised about!). Currently if you select delete a decline notification is sent to the sender. Basically replying. So you have to ignore the calendar invite and leave the item in your calendar. The support guy was going to raise it as a unresolved item and suggested I use Apple Feedback to raise it from my end also. which I did. Completely unacceptable that Apple does not protect its calendar app users.
Ok so this works. Create a new calendar (Calendar/File/New Calendar) then open the bogus invite, you should see a drop down box; when you pull it down you'll see colour coded buttons for the original calendar/s and the new one - you can assign the invite to the new calendar by clicking on it (default name is 'new calendar'), then go to the sidebar (or click the top left button marked 'Calendars' if the sidebar isn't showing) and delete the new calendar. It takes a minute or two for the original calendar to update, but then it will be gone. And without replying to the invite! (I hammered all this out with an Apple online chat person, who at first told me to 'Decline' the invite, bad advice...)
good luck
I just started receiving these too. Here's a screenshot. Interestingly, if you open the Info window on the event, it lists everyone else who got the invite. It also lists the name of the person (in this case Jana Moller) who originated the spam....
Me too, really hate that junk mail has got into my ical. I always delete the emails from these people on sight and have never opened a link in them. How does one delete it from the calendar and stop it happening again?
Wow, that's really rubbish isn't it. You'd think that Apple would be more interested in preserving the integrity of an app that's really central to the user interface with their OS. How is it possible that nasty junk like this can get such a firm toehold in the system? It's obviously hit a lot of people and some suggest creating a new calendar and transferring the 'invite' to it and then deleting the new calendar, which apparently works - but I can't for the life of me work out how to transfer the invite to the new calendar...
Also if you still have the email message - this whole thing is happening because the icalendar has innocently trawled your email for invites, a facility which you can turn off if you root around a bit - you can probably get your ISP to block it
Thank you Brightwell ! This did work for me as well. When you delete the temporary calendar with the spam invite in it a window pops up with the option of "delete without declining or notifying". I hope Apple fixes this crazy security breach asap. I will send feedback today about this problem. I also received probably the exact same Chinese spam sunglasses thing, and I do have the auto add invites off, and have auto add off for gmail calendar, and have no sign of any email in any of my accounts that this could have been linked to.
This is most annoying. Unable to transfer the spam invite to a different calendar so it can be deleted, the invite doesn't exist in any email I can find so how did it get straight to my calendar in the first place, and any response I give to the invite notifies the spammer they have pinged a real address. Definitely an issue Apple needs to fix stat.
So in the end after visiting the Apple Store support person, I had to change my Apple Id. This meant logging out of everything, creating and changing my email address for my login and then signing in on all my devices. It did get rid of the spam calendar invites & the iPhoto invite. But it really isn't ideal. Apple should have a solution to this problem. Oh, and 2 weeks later - Ive just had a spam invite into my shared photos!
Sorry to hear about you changing your apple ID and still getting them. I also kept getting them after deleting without notifying. Even after I was able to transfer and delete the spam invites, I kept getting the same one several times a day. So I figured these were linked to my email account (even though I never saw any spam emails related to them) and I have always had the "automatically add event invites from email" off. What I did that stopped it was to remove my email account from my phone and from my computer (from the apple cloud too i guess). Knock on wood that worked. I now access that email account in a browser on my computer instead of through the Mail program. An annoying fix, but hopefully worked. And I sure hope Apple fixes this. I have seen reports of this problem for several years now though.
This is definitely an apple-specific hack. I have an icloud email that I use with with iclould account, and I don't use it for anything else. I don't use the email account, i don't even have it set-up on any devices etc, its just my icloud sign in email, and that's the one that's receiving these spam calendar invites.
Same thing here... I deleted the event as you suggested.
Unfortunately, my wife got a text message from “me” with the same calendar invitation. She didn't accept, but it seems to go beyond email/calendar apps.
I discovered that the spam invitations (yep Chinese sunglasses) are going only into my 'work' classification on the Icalendar. I'm lucky that I don't need three classifications ('calendar', 'home' and 'work') so I've changed all my calendar entries to either 'calendar' or 'home' and have disabled 'work'. And those annoying invites have just disappeared. Well it works for now.
Permanent solution sought!
I've been getting the same invite and of course I hit decline not knowing what that would do. They have been sending calendar reminders for a a week now several times a day. This is frustrating!!
Apple needs to help find a solution.
Removing my gmail account from Apple Mail on my computer and iPhone worked for 2 weeks. Just today I got spam calendar invite pop into my iCal and it says it was sent to my yahoo email address. Again I never have had the auto add invites turned on, but this time I did see the spam email this bogus invite was related to in the yahoo spam on the yahoo mail website on my computer. That yahoo address is not on my computer Mail app but is in my iPhone Mail app, and was on my own contact card in Contacts. So I don't know if it came through the Mail app (on my phone) or the Contacts app, I think both are in the cloud. I deleted my yahoo account from my iPhone Mail app. Please Apple fix this security hole.
How do I block spam calendar invites
