Spam Calendar Invites

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Get help using iCloud Contacts, Calendars, or Reminders - Apple Support

if you get a spam iCloud Calendar request

If you get a calendar request that you think might be spam or junk, let us know. Sign in to iCloud.com with your Apple ID and go to the Calendar app. Open the event that you wish to mark as Junk, click Report Junk, then click OK. Automatically delete the event from your Calendar on all your devices signed in with the same Apple ID.

You can also go to the invitation from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac and choose Report Junk > Delete and Report Junk.

Hey Andrew,

Many thanks for the assistance: I am getting the EXACT same spam as shown above, even from the same company. I was able to change my settings as you outlined and hope that I will now get these messages in my inbox where I can block them as spam. Your steps were easy to follow and I can't thank you enough for helping with this very frustrating problem.

Two things, intended more for the Apple PMs whom I hope check these forums.

1. It is egregious that strangers can put something on your calendar, without asking for permission, and there is easy no way to remove it. I'm a bit OCD about my calendar and would like to see LEGITIMATE events that I may have declined for whatever reason. (If Meeting A gets cancelled, maybe I want to try to attend Meeting B.) Currently, I can't do that because I can't turn on declined meetings without having all these spam meetings flood onto my calendar as well. This "show declined events" feature is nearly useless.
2. If I want to delete a meeting, why do you insist on sending a reply to the meeting organizer? Shouldn't that be my choice? I can't delete these spam meetings because doing so means you will automatically verify my email address for them! You are aiding the spammers!

I love Andrew's suggestion about ignoring requests from those not in my contacts, and it would certainly go a long way toward fixing this... but you also have more work to do here. The spam issue makes this calendar really undesirable to use, which stinks because it sure is handy.

I had the same issue this morning. This was the first time this has happened to me. I logged into my icloud account and then went to my icloud settings. At the bottom of the page, I clicked on "restore calendars and reminders." Then I selected my archived calendar from yesterday - before the spam invite was sent. I know that this isn't a permanent fix for keeping out spam invites, but it worked for me and I'll do the same process if it happens again.

Thanks for the instructions on sending the invites to email instead of adding directly to the calendar. I've had a couple of spam calendar invitations recently and am equally frustrated at the lack of ability to delete without notification.

I foolishly clicked decline a week or so ago. I now have a photo stream invite from the same person sitting there. I don't want to decline for fear of getting more. Can I change the main email address to prevent me getting these?

Some of us have already "declined" thinking it would lead to no more invites, to no avail. I've been getting them for two weeks. There needs to be a block, but I do wonder if the junk email addresses they're sending from means that wouldn't make any difference.

I have had this exact same issue. It began within the last week. Most "solutions" out there are from people who either don't fully understand what's happening and/or they don't understand the consequences of simply declining or deleting it. Thank you for figuring this out and sharing. I hope others find this solution as well.

This was really help and great advice! If I could figure out how to "up-vote" this answer I would! You are absolutely right - we're stuck with the annoying invites until Apple gives us a way to delete them w/o notifying sender! 😕

This does not seem to work for me. I have created a new calendar and assigned the spam invitations to it (by opening the event, clicking on the color-coded dot in the upper right of the window, and changing it to the color of the new "spam" calendar), but then when I delete the "spam" calendar, the spam invitations just reappear in my regular calendar. I also don't get the erase-with-or-without-notification options when I delete the calendar. I just get a popup asking if I'm sure I want to delete the calendar & all of its associated events. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any insight you can offer!

Hello, Andrew.

I woke up yesterday and found one of those spams in my Calendar. Unfortunately, I was naive enough to hit "Decline" and.. guess what?.. yes.. Photos invites have just begun today. Since I do not share or sign into other people Albuns, the invitations aren't coming straight to my devices, but instead to my non-iCloud email.

For one side, if that keeps the annoyance in one contained place and off my calendar.... Well.. Anyway, this whole mess should activate the alarms at Apple HQ and make them give the users the option to receive invitations only from known people that are already in their Contacts OR at least a way to report the spam, just like it is with iCloud email and even iMessages.

I know Apple does not monitor these forums, and I've send them a Feedback message about the issue. But I think I'll just send them an update. Others sites like Tom's Guide, and even some Brazilian iPhone blogs, are already warning users about this spam thing. I only wish I had read about it before.. oh well.

Hi, everyone,

One thing I just noticed: at the end of the email with the invitation to sign the stream of the Chinese spammer, there's an option at the bottom of the e-mail to "not receive any more photo sharing invitations" (sorry, I could not find an exact translation, since I receive my emails from Apple in Portuguese). Clicking it leads me to an iCloud hosted site (it's legit, with Apple signed certificate and all) and, after doing its thing, the page tells the following (again, a free translation from Portuguese): "You chose not to receive any more invitations. You'll no longer receive e-mail invitations from Photo Sharing at the e-mail %{EmailId}." Assuming the spammer is using only one e-mail (which I highly doubt), should it display its address or, at least, my address, instead of that %{EmailId}. string?

Thank you all.

I started getting spam invitations this past weekend to join an iCloud shared photo album. Today those invites have started coming through to my icloud calendar.

Has anyone tried changing the email address associated with your AppleID to stop the spam invitations? Is there any reason why I would not want to do this?

I have temporarily turned off the in-app calendar invites as suggested by another post, but that is only a short-term solution for me.