Apple Working to Put a Stop to iCloud Calendar Spam

[TehFalcon]

You should be able to deselect the Facebook calendar from settings.

I have. Doesn't delete them.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

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'.

If so then it's a compromise. Apple has been hacked before, at least I haven't forgot.

 

[dwaltwhit]

$20 for ray-bans?? killer deal! what's the problem?

 

[nsayer]

Once again, we see proof that there isn't something nice and helpful that can't be ruined by sociopaths.

 

[macfacts]

Thats great news. I wonder how this was started.

Differential privacy. Everyone is using it wrong.

 

[Cvx5832]

Finally. Although the calendar-invite-as-email trick has successfully kept it out for me

 

[IJ Reilly]

$20 for ray-bans?? killer deal! what's the problem?

Better yet, they are X-Ray-Bans. With them you can see right though the BS.

 

[Cineplex]

iCloud was Jobs system, dude
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What iCloud mail spam issue?

Ya "dude"...and who is in charge now? That's right...Timmy!
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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.

No it's not! Dot Mac was much better!

 

[i.mac]

Hope y

i declined a few and now i am getting tons of email Spam. Punishment for sending spam should be torture in a public forum. Make happen Donald.

Hope that you're referring to Donald Duck here. The duck is sure more competent.

 

[ZMacintosh]

This article was difficult to get through, a bit more proof reading and editing please. but yes very obnoxious, hopefully fixes this problem. make spam thinner and lighter please

 

[goobot]

Just add an option that only allows invs from contacts.

 

[Speechless]

I WAS WONDERING WHY I WAS ALWAYS GETTING CHINESE INVITES TO STORES AND I COULDN'T DELETE THEM.

Thank You, Apple. Hurry up.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

This type of spam is maddening. It really grates my nerves! I'm glad Apple has finally released a statement that says they are working on it.

 

[thadoggfather]

supposedly the way to fix it in interim while Apple cracks down-

icloud.com -> calendars -> gear in bottom left, advanced, change checkbox from notify me to send me an email , and then put up an email filter rule if you use iCloud email.

 

[macduke]

Hah, "some" users. Yeah, it's probably not affecting everyone, but everyone I know who had an iPhone that I've asked about it has this problem right now. Not one person said they didn't!

 

[OverSpun]

Ugh, at least I am not the only one that received a ton icloud spam last week. I just selected them all as spam in the messages and declined them in iCal. Just Annoying.

 

[catchatyou]

Finally!

 

[japanime]

$20 for ray-bans?? killer deal! what's the problem?

Right? I'm going to buy a pair using the $20 I saved on that UGG boots deal!

 

[kildraik]

I read the title, and the first thing I thought of was the spam Ray-Ban events. Then I opened the post and laughed. Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[Rigby]

Instead of fiddling around with spam filters that will never work perfectly (and in the worst case throw away genuine invitations like iCloud email sometimes drops genuine emails), they should simply add a way to delete calendar items without sending a notification to the originator. Why should anyone have the right to clutter up my calendar without me having a means to delete the items without responding?

 

[seanmcbay]

Thank goodness. I thought this was just affecting me.

 

[DavisEngeler]

Thank goodness. I thought this was just effecting me.

Me too

 

[C DM]

Then what do you think it is?! I have instincts that do work and I will always keep my guard up when others let theirs down.

Spam? Basically what everyone thinks it is and what it is essentially.
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Hah, "some" users. Yeah, it's probably not affecting everyone, but everyone I know who had an iPhone that I've asked about it has this problem right now. Not one person said they didn't!

I know plenty who not only haven't been affected but don't even know about it. Just these forums are enough to show that given that if majority was affected, let alone essentially everyone, there would be WAY more "discussion" (as in complaining) about it here, as much smaller things that affect more people, yet still far far from everyone, have gotten more discussion.

 

[Dubstructor]

make new calendar category.....add spam invite to new calendar category.....delete calendar. It gets rid of the invite without notifying.

 

[xaqt93]

Just have to comment, I freaking love that Apple i doing something finally. This has been driving me insane...