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I have started receiving spam Calendar and Photos invites from Chinese spammers, how can I stop/block/report these? There is no way to do it via iPhone, and even logging in to the iCloud site dosen't let me see these invites via the browser. This is gettng extremely annoying to the point I've had to turn off the iCloud Calendar and Photo sharing features.
This really, really needs to be addressed.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10.1.1
I've been having the very same problem for a couple of weeks now... Apple really needs to address this ASAP!
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.
Here's another...
This is BS. I am having the same issue, with constant reminders that "such and such" is on sale, etc.
Apple, get this fixed or I will abandon my iCloud calendars!
Thanks! My problem wasn't the emailed calendar invites, but was invites sent directly to may calendar. Your link provided a good workaround until Apple (hopefully) does something about this.
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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.
People, please leave feedback for Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/
They don't react to stuff in here. They react to bad press the flood of complaints and feature requests through the proper channels. Many corporations reason that if you don't have enough initiative to process a feedback/feature request, it must not matter enough. And Apple knows you'll be back for the next iPhone upgrade. Take the initiative.
Don't assume that they will make a smart choice for our behalf. We should be able to do something as simple as DELETING any meeting invite we want, spam or not. NOT EVERY meeting organizer is ENTITLED to a reply. This is not the corporate offices of Apple Corporation where Steve Jobs outlawed deleting calendar invites because some people said they didn't get the invite (and may have secretly deleted the invite) in order to get out of a meeting.
We are not corporate Apple employees. Cease treating us as such.
We demand the option to DELETE a meeting invite without any feedback whatsoever to the meeting organizer.
Please, everyone leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I've given my feedback on this to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback
I trust, as has been mentioned, that if we can all afford the time to post here, we can do the same.
I'm not suggesting that we should stop posting problems and solutions here, since Apple don't like to admit they may have an issue & tarnish their squeaky clean image. We know the reality & we need solutions now, so we have to self medicate.
I'm never disappointed by the altruism demonstrated on the interweb. It's not all cute cats and pratfalls.
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How do I stop spam iCloud Calendar and Photos invites?
