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Apple Working to Put a Stop to iCloud Calendar Spam
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I have changed this setting on iCloud and thankfully it has stopped it, whats even more frustrating about it is that I never used calender invites, it would be good if they put a setting in only allow calender invites from contacts.
Same kind of thing can work there with Gmail invitations and Google Calendar as well.
I've been having this issue for weeks now, I thought I was the only one. I get these calendar invites daily, driving me nuts. I'm glad apple is doing something about it.
I hate these, and I also hate the fact I cannot just completely reset Calendar. Long time ago when FaceBook first had iOS integration, I made the mistake of syncing the Facebook calendar with my phone. Now I have hundreds of birthday notifications that I absolutely do not care about, and turning the sync off in the Facebook settings does nothing.. tried deleting them all one by one on my Mac and they still all came back..
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iCloud was a Jobs idea... so..... Calm down. iCloud is 1000x better then .Mac was.
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iCloud was a Jobs idea... so..... Calm down. iCloud is 1000x better then .Mac was.
This is what I did. I am travelling. You can't access the iCloud iCal web app cog thingy from iOS with a browser.
No.Apple has not been hacked. Some spammers have found a loophole in what is otherwise a useful function. Apple have messed up by a) letting it happen by b) not implementing a delete instead of decline option. All spammers are doing is exploiting that loophole. There's no 'hacking'.
Maybe they will fix the iCloud mail spam issue at the same time...Wishful thinking I know.
You realize that the spam filtering of your email is only as good as it's trained — you need to train it to recognize your valid email.
- Always move spam to the Junk folder.
- Always move false-positives (good mail) that lands in Junk back to the Inbox.
Both actions improve the filtering.
It's not really much of a loophole either as much as just spammers sending event invites as spam rather than sending it all as regular email.
Maybe they will fix the iCloud mail spam issue at the same time...
Totally agree. I've had to stop using iCloud mail for anything which even remotely might lead to spam. Gmail is far superior for SPAM control. It's astonishing that Apple hasn't done a better job of SPAM control on the iCloud mail side, even after all these years, and all the money they've spent on iCloud! Let's hope this calendar issue wakes some folks up...
This has nothing to do with Tim, or iCloud, but simply time and changing landscapes. I've had my @Mac email address for 10+ years, back when iTools was renamed to .Mac. I got a lot more spam these days to my address, but the filtering is really good because I've spent the time to train my account.
Good-
Now lets fix the photo sharing invitations from people not in our contact list
that too only has Accept-Decline options
Now lets fix the photo sharing invitations from people not in our contact list
that too only has Accept-Decline options
I don't know where this "unsolicited calendar invitation" comes from. I don't recall seeing any "invitations" over the past month (or ever). If it was there, it must have disguised itself pretty good as something else (like an ad to clear with an "X" button, you know the kind that sites like Forbes won't allow you to view their news articles unless you let them SPAM you to death with pop-ups and other god-awful ads. But I sure as hell got an add in my calendar for Ray-Bans. I found a solution. Turn off the iCloud mode! The iCloud sucks and is just a disaster waiting to happen. You put your personal information and backup your hard drive online, you pay the price when they HACK INTO IT LIKE THEY DO EVERYTHING. Yes, they could hack your personal computer, but what's a more juicy target? Your personal computer or the Cloud Service itself at Apple where tons of people have their information. It's why they target Windows desktops more than Macs. There's more "gold" there. iOS Cloud is a juicy target indeed.
I guess in a sense that's not that different to how it hasn't happened to most people with iCloud until just recently, and even now it hasn't happened to many still.
This issue can be fixed by Apple by creating a setting in the Calendar app that reads, "Allow invites only from people in my Contacts."
