How do I stop spam iCloud Calendar and Photos invites?

I ponder if anyone actually takes 2 minutes out of their busy lives to read the few post above to actually observe that this work around has already been posted twice. Does it really need to be repeated

In response to my own question:

There is no way to remove this "recent invitee" at this time. I spoke with an Apple Store Rep today and they said Apple Corporate is working on an update/patch to eradicate this spam.

Hope this helps others! Cheers.

I am having the same problem with unsolicited calendar invitations. Apple used to boast that their products were impervious to hacking attacks, right. The truth is Microsoft was simply a bigger market for hackers, hence the effort was spent preying upon the larger market. Now that Apple has become a popular Internet connection device (via iPhone and iPad), hackers are now preying on both OS systems. This unsolicited calendar problem could be resolved with a few lines of code, but my guess is Apple will let this issue annoy their clients until a critical mass has saturated their Apple Support site. The truth is, an option to decline an invite with no response to sender should have been built into their calendar app on day one. Apple needs to concentrate on product and less on marketing, a good product will sell itself.

I had this issue with the Chinese and the Ray-bans. Today I went into Calendar and unchecked everything in the left hand menu: when I unchecked the category "Home," the Ray-bans ad disappeared. The Chinese thing was in my iPhoto-- I went into System Preferences and got rid of iPhoto Notifications in there. Irritating!

If a spam calendar event turns up, make a calendar called "spam" (or any other), don't decline but add the spam calendar event to "spam" then delete the spam event. And don't choose a notification.

Further really do think that Apple need to work this out. For one thing I don't want any calendar event from anyone I don't know. This could be made a (custom) preference.

Dear Apple

We need to be able to block iCal requests from emails or contacts without notifying them that we have declined.

Also to be able to delete entries without notifying the sender that we've declined or deleted.

Please make this a priority as it is ridiculous that this is happening.

PART 2:

The steps described above worked until I updated my iPhone and iPad to 10.1.1.

At that point, I had to repeat the above steps.

To those who are using iCloud Photo Sharing and receiving Spam messages, my suggestion is this:

If you can live without it, disable it.

I am more than very annoyed.

Trust me, younger members of this forum, Life IS short.

I resent having to think about technology more often than I actually need to use it.

I have many other interesting and life-affirming activities built into my life that I enjoy even more than I do mobile phones and tablets.

I bought Apple products because these devices are (or were?) supposed to be more secure and less susceptible to intrusion and cyber attack than were my old, very slow and buggy android phone and tablet.

It seems apparent to me that Apple can no longer claim a security advantage.

Does Apple intend to pay attention to and to solve the problems about which myriad user forums have been created?

IF NOT and the spam problem continues to be left up to users to solve temporarily and IF, indeed, this IS the new IOS reality, I have already begun to solve my own problem.

•I am reading a new softcover book I traded for at our local book-swap.

•I have checked out a brand new mystery on cd from the library.

•I have already cleaned up and readied my cb radio.

•Tomorrow, I shall purchase US Postage stamps.

Breaker, breaker, anyone?

Retro is cheaper and back in style! :-)

Totally agree! I've been buying apple since the 80's...was easier, good technology. Now its starting to annoy me to no end. When they dumped Aperture, that was the last straw. I buy whatever works... Apple doesn't seem to be at all responsive to their customers anymore. They've got too much money in the bank. Retro is in fact much cheaper and more reliable!!!

This is the FAULT of Apple's email servers not filtering out SPAM. Good email and calendar servers have spam filters. I can't get to iCloud Calendar on my computer and there is NO way to set preferences on the iPhone itself which is crazy. I only want invites from people in my calendar.

There are 2 solutions but both of them require you to either change they way you receive invites form in app to mail or you have to create and delete calendars once you move the spam invite. Both are very inconvenient, and apple should definitely work on this issue.

At the same time invites send to my gmail email do not show up as an in app invite, they just appear in the calendar. I have tried everything and still cant get it fixed.

Apple please help.

Thanks

Am trying this work-around. Thanks so much for sharing. We will see. Last unsolicited calendar invite was from Michael Kors. I've NEVER bought a Michael Kors product or shopped on line for the products. We will see!

I called Apple Support today. They were very nice. They have almost always been. Very rarely do I find them anything but.

The first young man I spoke to had not heard about the issue. He took down as much information as I could give him. I gave him permission to "ghost" my computer so he could see what I was talking about and he then went to senior tech.

They are familiar with the issue and are working on it. So I talked to one of the engineers and he asked me to email him a screen shot in general, but particularly the email address of the sender. (Hacker!)

He also asked me to let him know when\if if happened again and to send a screen shot of that.

I mention all this because if you haven't deleted your Ray-ban calendar spam (or photo, I didn't mention that as I haven't had that issue.) you might want to call Apple support so that they can have more email shots of what is happening.

Thanks for the work arounds.

I thought they were working but today I got ads for NFL Shirts/Jerseys!!! On a calendar that had not been hit before. Pffft!

Special Place in **** for Hackers!

Good luck to us all,

Cotton

Thank you for that update. I live in Canada and getting a hold of them is difficult. I did go to the calendar online and set to send emails instead. However, that is very annoying as I don't want the SPAM sent to my email and give the SPAMMERS my email either.

The problem is that their SPAM filter is failing to pick up .ics That is a huge SECURITY flaw. They carry my credit card and personal information as well as my calendar information. If they are allowing Spammers and Hackers to hijack their servers then I don't want to store my private data with them anymore. I have forwarded the invites to my email but then they have my email which is worse.

Apple finally acknowledges this issue, apologizes and states that it is now actively working to identify and block the suspicious senders. Details in the article at 9to5Mac.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/30/apple-apologizes-for-icloud-calendar-invite-spam- actively-identifying-and-blocking-sender…