How to Delete iCloud Calendar Spam Without Alerting Spammers

[jlc1978]

Yes, this is just ridiculous. Events should automatically expire at the end of the day to which they're scheduled!

Only if they still stay on the calendar so you have a record in case you need to check when something occurred or who was invited.

That other calendar services also works the same way is not an excuse; of course it's an oversight. When something inconveniences and annoys its users, and especially at this level

It works just as it should so you can schedule items easily and check for conflicts, etc. That a few people find it inconvenient is outweighed by the many who use that feature each day. I have gotten some of the spam but the inconvenience is far outweighted by the feature's usefulness.

Emails are different, because an inbox exists for the very purpose of letting people contact you. A calendar is not intended to be a general way of getting in touch with a random person.

Neither is email, both are intended to allow you to communicate, and spammers use that to their advantage.

Apple could implement better spam filtering, And I would welcome it as long as it avoided too many false positives and let you see all the rejected invites.

 

[ardchoille50]

Not so fast.....the "accept or decline" message is no proof at all. The reality is that when the user receives the "accept/decline" pop-up, it creates a cryptic dilemma, just the same as if it were email spam. Does "declining" a calendar event, only alert the sender that somebody is actually reading it.....thus inviting more calendar spam at a future date? I'm sorry, but "been there, done that."

The question is, does the invite alter your calendar prior to tapping accept or decline? Disregarding the sender for the moment, the invite does not alter your calendar without your permission. That was the point of my reply. The reply I quoted made it sounds as if anyone could send an invite and alter your calendar before you had any say in the matter.

 

[Easttime]

On an iPhone, one can swipe left on the invitation and select delete. Does that notify the spammer or simply delete the invite?

 

[bungiefan89]

On an iPhone, one can swipe left on the invitation and select delete. Does that notify the spammer or simply delete the invite?

It lets the spammer know that you're an active user, so there's still a reason for them to send garbage to you, because you're alive.

 

[tjleonard]

Yup. Get em by the dozen per day.

Annoying as ****.

Almost as annoying as the daily "would you like to update to the next OS version" crap.

No I don't want to ****ing update to the next version. I still use Firewire Audio, and since Apple took that out of the latest OS releases I would lose all connectivity to my mixing console. I'm not replacing a console that costs 10X what the computer is because Apple could give a **** about Firewire Audio.

You can hide the update and it will not prompt you for that one again.

 

[JaSuS]

worked for me thanks

 

[tw1ll]

"It just works", my John Thomas.......fixes shouldn't be necessary. This is just another niggle where Apple continue to design applications without reference to the real world - why on earth isn't there an "ignore" option in calendar. The app and cloud should be transparent to the end user - zero hassle, high reliability and above all else the ability to trust ones data to them. If that trust goes, so do the customers.

 

[TitoC]

Why not just have a setting to only receive invite from certain people or people that are in my contacts list? Not that hard.

 

[jahanas]

I tried the instructions and created a new calendar but when I go into the event it doesn't give me an option to change calendars.[/QUOTE]

 

[Lennyvalentin]

Only if they still stay on the calendar so you have a record in case you need to check when something occurred or who was invited.

You want spam invites to stay on your calendar?

Hookay, but the rest of us would just as well simply see them gone, over and done with, thankyouverymuch.

It works just as it should so you can schedule items easily and check for conflicts, etc. That a few people find it inconvenient is outweighed by the many who use that feature each day.

It's no problem to you or those many other people, if Apple were to offer an option to simply block all calendar event invites (and iphoto shares) from people say, not in my address book, for example.

If you want invites from randoms, I won't begrudge you that, but I personally have no use for them whatsoever. I want them out of my phone and my mac. Apple needs to add this setting, and right quick too.

 

[jlc1978]

You want spam invites to stay on your calendar?

Hookay, but the rest of us would just as well simply see them gone, over and done with, thankyouverymuch.

What I want is to get to decide what invites get deletes, not have someone else decide that all past invites over a certain date should disappear. If I delete it it would stay deleted but if I don't it should stay on my calendar.

It's no problem to you or those many other people, if Apple were to offer an option to simply block all calendar event invites (and iphoto shares) from people say, not in my address book, for example.

If you want invites from randoms, I won't begrudge you that, but I personally have no use for them whatsoever. I want them out of my phone and my mac. Apple needs to add this setting, and right quick too.

I agree, having an option not to accept any invites from anyone not in a user's contacts list would be useful to some users. I personally think it's good to make such things an option, not a built in feature. My work results in invites from a number of people not in my contact list so I would not use it, but can see where you might want that option. I share your gripe with companies who insist there si only one way to configure a program and leave out options that would make their products more useful to some users.

As for pam, it's a never ending battle. Email filters have gotten to the point where much of it is caught so the spammers are looking for new ways to push their crap.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

What I want is to get to decide what invites get deletes, not have someone else decide that all past invites over a certain date should disappear. If I delete it it would stay deleted but if I don't it should stay on my calendar.

The idea was, you know, for an invite you never interacted with to expire after its due-date. Not to automatically extend its expiration date automatically for some ridiculous, incomprehensible reason as is currently the case; because events are things that naturally take place at a set date and then they end.

Currently the ending date keeps extending - I assume indefinitely - on many, if not all of these spam events. This means they will eventually completely overwhelm your calendar unless you take manual action, which is tedious.

A legit event sent to you by someone you work with or interact with in some other fashion, you would probably interact with and not simply ignore, hoping it will go away. You would choose to accept it, or perhaps decline it. Then it could save into your calendar so that you can later review it if you so desire.

It doesn't make sense (to me anyway) to keep events I never interacted with around in the calendar forever, visible, to the point I can't even see order and structure in my calendar anymore for all the colored bars covering the screen.

 

[jlc1978]

It doesn't make sense (to me anyway) to keep events I never interacted with around in the calendar forever, visible, to the point I can't even see order and structure in my calendar anymore for all the colored bars covering the screen.

I do no necessarily accept or decline very event I received. For example, I may get invites for events I will not attend but want them on my calendar in case time frees up so I can accept them at a later date. in addition, I can go back and see what was double booked since the event would still show up even though I never interacted with them; or can propose a new date and time if appropriate.
What I like is program that let yo decide how to handle stuff, so you and I, with different needs, can configure it to our needs. This idea that "this is the one right way" that some developers take is bad design, IMHO.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

This idea that "this is the one right way" that some developers take is bad design, IMHO.

Unfortunately, Apple overall is very much a company that is like, "we're gonna decide for you how you want things", and typically don't offer that many ways to affect the way their apps function.

The Apple Watch is probably the most user configurable thing Apple's ever made, over the course of some 40 years of company history...

 

[TwoBytes]

Ever since this news article I am NOT receiving icloud calendar invites from family anymore! Apple are screwing this up for people who are not receiving spam. Anyone in the same boat?

 

[JosephAW]

And exactly how do I log into iCloud to change my calendar settings using my iPhone when I don’t have a iPad or desktop?

 

[I7guy]

And exactly how do I log into iCloud to change my calendar settings using my iPhone when I don’t have a iPad or desktop?

Safari?

 

[JosephAW]

Safari?

Nope:

“https://www.icloud.com/calendar/“

 

[I7guy]

Nope:

“https://www.icloud.com/calendar/“

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Got it. Hope you can find a desktop and get this resolved.