Spam Calendar Invites

I used this exact workaround just now and I waiting to see if it works. I have had this issue happen twice in one day that this rayban add is being sent to my calendar. Lets see if it works. Thanks!

I tested this workaround myself. I had my wife send me a calendar invite from her iPhone. I made a "spam" calendar in iCloud.com and moved her invite to that calendar. I didn't accept/delete the invite at any point, just assigned it to the "spam" calendar.

Then I deleted the entire "spam" calendar, not her invite. I didn't get any sort of prompt/message/warning that it would send any notifications, but my wife DID GET a declined message once I deleted the calendar with the invite in it.

So I am NOT convinced this is a safe workaround. It failed in my one and only test. Maybe others had better luck.

I deleted all calendars synced to my account through iCloud and it went away. I also changed my iCloud password. This isn't the first time I've had issues with my iCloud account. A few months ago I had iMessage hacked and messages sent in Chinese. Apple needs to do more about their security.

I realized this morning that I could just delete the iOS calendar app entirely from my iOS devices. So for iDevice users who aren't using calendar, this is a possible workaround until Apple steps up and addresses this ridiculous problem.

You cannot delete Calendar from OSX though, but just thought I'd add this as an option for iOS users. If people begin deleting their app, I'm sure they'll take notice.

Thanks so much for posting this! So far, so good...I changed that setting so hopefully won't get it added to calendar anymore. 🙂

APple this is one of the many reasons why I moved away from them. Came back with this iPad, makes me remember *shutter*

Thanks!

This is undoubtedly the best work around. The idea of reducing functionality by removing the "Show Found in Apps calendar" preference and breaking the email invites is a productivity killer making it unacceptable.

Googling and looking around the Apple communities this seems to have been an issue for quite a while, This month it appears to have become significantly more prevalent. I figure most people just decline the event, so I suspect the Apple iCloud spam metrics to significantly go up along with costs, though fixing it in the calendar app would probably be a lot cheaper.

This is the only option that worked to get rid of the spam calendar item I got this morning. All the others just work for new ones that come in.

On your instructions, I can't find the little gear symbol on the calendar. I signed into icloud, there is no calendar to open from there, and I went to the calendar itself and there is no gear symbol anywhere on that app. How exactly do you find it?

When logging in to icloud.com, click on Calendar and then look in the lower lefthand corner of entire page and you will see the gears icon! Hope that helps!

Bottom left side.

yes!!

I sent a feedback to Apple asking to add again

the useful Contact Buddy list we had in iChat

where only contacts in the user list where able to reach you.

This will solve all the problems we are having with Calendar, Reminder, FaceTime and messages

from unknown spammer

I sent a feedback to Apple asking to add again

the useful Contact Buddy list we had in iChat

where only contacts in the user list where able to reach you.

This will solve all the problems we are having with Calendar, Reminder, FaceTime and messages

from unknown spammer

I left feedback for  to fix this ASAP!!

When I got the first Spam calendar invitation, I completely disabled the "calendar" part of iCloud on my Mac as I'm not using the iCloud calendar, but I still got new spam invitations notifications! This is absolutely insane. Apple needs to kill this feature immediately and reenable it once it's fixed.

In the mean time, I completely signed out of my iCloud account on the Mac. Apple, please make this a high priority. Getting spam right on my desktop is absolutely intolerable! Thanks!