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/

This worked great! Thank you!!

Those spammer's should be prosecuted.

I found a make shift solution to the blocking repeated spamming using my iOS Phone app for Mac use FaceTime app.

Before declining the invitation follow the following steps and let me know if it works well for you.

1: Create a contact call it anything but I call mine "photo spammer".

2: Add spammers email address to above contact.

3: Go to phone app>contacts > "photo spammer"

4: At the bottom select block this caller.

5: Now decline the email.

If you get another email you can always just add them to the same contact. Cheers hope this helps.

The fu***** are now sending Shared Reminders invites... Apple really needs to tackle this issue...

Yeah that's getting ridiculous

I have the same problem, I receive these spams at least 4,5 times a day and It's really annoying!! Apple can do something about that?!

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 would appreciate that simple fix!

Good thinking!

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.

Deleting the contact will unfortunately remove the blocking of these addresses also.

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).

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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