How do I stop spam iCloud Calendar and Photos invites?

I've been having the very same problem for a couple of weeks now... Apple really needs to address this ASAP!

Some suggestions in this thread.

Spam Calendar Invites

Yeah I am getting Photos invite spam now

I received icalendar spam from ray ban this afternoon on my iPhone 6+ and iPad Air2-both run IOS 10.1.

Did I ruin my entire life when I declined the message on my iPhone?

By now, everyone reading this has realized that I am a luddite. I do not understand the attempted fixes described by other forum participants.

I need to know the following:

1. What else should I NOT do?

2. How do I prevent the intrusion of unsolicited messages in calendar?

3. How do I configure, disable or remove Calender from my IOS devices?

I am concerned that Apple has become equally as vulnerable to cyber attack as is Microsoft .

Fortunately for me, I am old, patient, and I have books. Shall I clean up my CB radio and purchase US Postage stamps?

Please excuse my unsophisticated techno-verbiage.

Thank you.

Yeah there is now way to delete the invite so once you accepted it, you let the spammers know your email address is legit. I am getting the spam almost daily now

Follow the suggestions provided in this similar themed thread -- Spam Calendar Invites

that link doesn't address the iCloud Photos spam, there isn't a way to delete or block the invites

So, "Decline" is just a slippery way to accept the message?

Yeah it just invites more spam

I had a chat with Apple Support this morning. Unfortunately as of now with Photos spam invites your only option is to decline the event according to them. The other option they provide you is that they can enable spam throttling for your Apple ID at their end. I asked them to do that for me. No idea how well it will work but at least it is an option that is available if you contact Apple Support.

At the root of this issue is Apples incredibly naive stance that any action one takes on an invite should solicit an automatic response to the sender. That is exactly what the spammers are preying upon. Either way they are getting a mail letting them know the spammed account is active. And it can be sent more spam in the future.

For apple calendars the "solution" is to delete the calendar once logged in on the web. Once the problem calendar is deleted it can be recreated. The way to figure out which calendar is the problem is to deselect each calendar until the spam events disappear. In my case it was the "home" calendar I wasn't using. I don't consider this a solution because were one using these calendars they lose their invites and events in the process of cleaning up Apples naive omission.

Photos is a different problem because there isn't a way to do this. Accept or decline sends a message to the sender.

So Apple, perhaps its time to have a third option, "delete", that doesn't message the sender with your actions? Or how giving the user the option to not send action receipts at all? Either that or people will just start using google photos or other services. Google has already made it very easy to migrate from photos. And many of us already use google photos as a backup.

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.

Feedback

Just got another Photos invite, not going to press deny anymore will just forward the email address it is coming from to Apple

This is ridiculous, its been going on for years for some other users, yet apple has failed to offer a delete event without a reply/notify. Spammers are NOT entitled to a reply. For an organization that successfully develops both great software and hardware, this is a huge fail. I've left feedback.