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 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. :|
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):
Brightwell, THANK YOU!!!! I've spent 4 hours today trying to fix this. Now, I know what to do. Bless you, bless you.
Exactly the message and conditions I encountered
Thank you, this worked for me as well!🙂
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.
Perfect. Thanks for your solution! Works great.
Well that worked perfectly. It's been driving me nuts so thanks.
How do I block spam calendar invites
