How do I stop spam iCloud Calendar and Photos invites?

Here's a solution from 9to5mac.

"Performing the steps below will move the spam invitation to a separate calendar, and from there, that calendar can be deleted. Thus, removing the spam invitation without having to hit “Decline” on the actual notification."

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/icloud-photo-sharing-and-calendar-spam/

Seems like what's needed is a checkbox that only allows receiving calendar invites or photo sharing invites from users on your contact list. That would fix it up for me and likely ruin it for the spammers as many people could use that option I expect.

This has now happened to me on Calendar invites, photo stream sharing invites, and requests to share Reminders with spammers. I'm taking steps to hide these, but it's really a pain in the butt. Observing how/when Apple addresses these issues as I start thinking about what phone I'm upgrading to from my iPhone 6+

I too have recently been receiving spam from Chinese spammers via the calendar.

The spammer is in my "home" calendar with whom I am apparently sharing the calendar with but when I check I am not sharing any of my calenders with anyone. I can't even remove the spammer from the sharing list.

I bought Apple products because of the security but it now seems that this is no longer a benefit.

After the low specifications and high price increases of new products, the ultimate solution I think is back to Android.

Apple used to innovate now it just iterates. It's a pity and very sad.

I have recently encountered this same problem. The is a major security flaw that Apple need to immediately address! There needs to be a way to delete the invite without sending a response. Any kind of response will only validate that the spammer successfully reached an active email address.

Thank you for your helpful answer. I followed your steps and will continue to do so every time I get a spam calendar invite. Do you know if I can then delete the contact that I created so I don't have spam email addresses saved in my contacts? Or if I delete the contact, does that undo the block? Thank you again for the insight.

This is so annoying that I've disabled calendar.

Apple REALLY needs to implement a button labeled "completely blacklist this person"

It would be good to use a social media style algorithm too such if if enough people blacklist the spammer he get blacklisted for ALL users that have enable the service.

Do Apple developers read this forum? If so some advice: Fix this or most users will disable or delete the calendar app. Google's calendar does not seem to have this problem (yet).

Just started getting these spam calendar invites today as well. I found this, which may helpful to some:

1. Login with your Apple ID on the web at iCloud.com.

2. Click on the Calendar icon

3. Click the gear icon at the very bottom left of your calendar.

4. Select Preferences...

5. Select Advanced.

6. For the Invitations option settings, select the option that will have calendar invites emailed to you instead of in-app notifications.

This isolates all invites to an email rather than auto-entering them into the calendar where you are prompted for the accept/decline/maybe answer there. Within the email you can then choose to accept/decline, or just trash the email with no response at all if it's spam.

This worked, thanks. But you can also go to iCloud.com using google chrome for iPad access, choose mail, then preferences, create a rule, pasting in th annoying Oakley sunglasses email and website, then tell it to be moved directly to trash.

I found this in one of the blogs; https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/icloud-photo-sharing-and-calendar-spam/

I just tried it on my calendar.

From a person who goes by FlashGen:

There is a slightly easier way to stop the non-email associated spam calendar events showing up. i.e. the ones that just appear in your calendar like magic.

Just log in to iCloud.com open your calendar. Then under the calendars settings (cog icon lower left of the screen), select the Preferences entry and then the Advanced tab. You'll likely notice that your Invitations setting is defaulted to in-app notifications. Change that to email and it'll prevent future invites automatically appear solely in your calendar (you'll get it as an email that is easier to delete without confirming a live account). This has stopped the calendar ones appearing for me…

Unfortunately there isn't an option for this under Photos 😟

I agree, this is intrusive beyond belief and Apple should alert its users when such spam is on offer so that they can simply opt out rather than waste hours of time on tech forums trying to work out how to stop it!

The cynical side of me wonders whether Apple plans to make a non advertising subscription app of iCal knowing that every regular user will become totally hacked off by seeing the ads

I was able to remove my apple email from my calendar by going to; Settings>Calendar>Accounts>iCloud and then switching off calendar on the list that appears there. The notification at least doesn't appear anymore and if you already didn't hide the iCloud calendar, it should also remove the events from your calendar as well ;)

Only problem, especially for Apple, is that less people will use their email accounts through them.

thanks for the suggestion, but in my case this simply removes 99% of all my diary content, not just the ad which has been cunningly linked to my work diary entries. Any other suggestions very gratefully received!

I followed all the steps to enter the new contact, but then THE OPTION TO BLOCK ISN'T THERE!.

I'm royally PO'd that Apple isn't addressing this. I'm getting this email daily. I made the mistake of declining the first one. I was on the road away from my computer, nothing but iPhone 5c, hard to read.

Besides which, there should not be any way for someone outside my own contacts to add "events" to my personal calendars! They are NOT public!i

Thanks for you advice. I wish it had worked for me.

Here's the best answer I've seen so far for doing this on your iPhone (good answer above for doing this on a mac)--create a "spam" calendar, add the invite to that calendar, then delete the "spam" calendar you created--that way they don't get a reply: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-stop-icloud-calendar-spam,news-23829.html