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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.
Does anybody know how to turn off the option to add events from emails? I deleted the first invitation as described here, but another was added the next day.
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.
Perfect. Thanks for your solution! Works great.
I was lucky, only one invite that disappeared once the invite expired. Very frustrating. Apple Tech could do nothing but suggest I report the spam abuse@icloud.com, and ask for the fix via product feedback (if enough users request or give negative feedback it should be addressed) http://www.apple.com/feedback/. Not ideal, but is what it is. :|
Well that worked perfectly. It's been driving me nuts so thanks.
So I've now received another spam invite into my calendar - as well as the iPhoto invite a couple of weeks ago. Both into my new apple id which is a new email account that I have never used for anything else. I've spoken to Apple Tech again. & a very helpful advisor Sharee Davenport, advised that there is no known resolution for this as yet. She said Apple is working on it (but has been for a long time). She also said there are a lot of people out there getting these & that she is one of them! She sent me a link to send screen shots of the invites & has logged this with the engineering/tech section & will contact me when/if they come up with a solution. Once I've sent screen shots I can go ahead and delete and keep deleting until they can solve it. Not ideal at all. Also, she confirmed that tech support doesn't read these blogs - it's here for us as a community to help each other. So the only way to log your frustrations is to send them to apple feedback. 😟
MacWorld published a method to prevent this spam in the future (and delete existing Spam on iOS and MacOS):
How do I block spam calendar invites
