All Devices iOS Calendar app deletes the invitation mail upon acceptance of invite inside Calendar app on an Outlook/ Exchange/ Office 365 invitee account

[uandme72]

Currently accepting a Calendar invitation received in an Outlook/ Exchange/ Office 365 account from inside the native Calendar app of iOS deletes the invitation email.

This issue occurs only on Outlook/ Exchange/ Office 365 type invitee accounts (and not sender's) since only they generate the three response options in the Calendar app- “Yes”/ “Maybe”/ “No”.

Microsoft does provide this feature (non-deletion of invitation email) in its iOS Outlook Client. Microsoft's own Client- Outlook for iOS does not delete the invitation mail if the invite is accepted from inside the iOS Outlook app Calendar section by pressing RSVP. This is evident in the attached screen recording. This indicates that there are perhaps APIs of Outlook/ Exchange accounts exposed by Microsoft for adoption in Calendar apps running on iOS.

This is exactly the behaviour I am expecting in iOS native Calendar as well, which should not delete the invite mail upon acceptance of invite.

Anyone?

 

[Cinimod1000]

Currently accepting a Calendar invitation received in an Outlook/ Exchange/ Office 365 account from inside the native Calendar app of iOS deletes the invitation email.

This issue occurs only on Outlook/ Exchange/ Office 365 type invitee accounts (and not sender's) since only they generate the three response options in the Calendar app- “Yes”/ “Maybe”/ “No”.

Microsoft does provide this feature (non-deletion of invitation email) in its iOS Outlook Client. Microsoft's own Client- Outlook for iOS does not delete the invitation mail if the invite is accepted from inside the iOS Outlook app Calendar section by pressing RSVP. This is evident in the attached screen recording. This indicates that there are perhaps APIs of Outlook/ Exchange accounts exposed by Microsoft for adoption in Calendar apps running on iOS.

This is exactly the behaviour I am expecting in iOS native Calendar as well, which should not delete the invite mail upon acceptance of invite.

Anyone?

I have seen iOS sometimes delete the invite when accepting from the iOS Calendar app - and in other versions it did not delete (always seem to be on he beta train). What is normal though? iOS 13.3.1 b2 currently deletes the invite, at least for me, just tried it.
When accepting an Outlook invite on my Widows PC with Outlook 2013 (within the email preview), it tells me with a pop-up that it is going to delete the mail invite, then does so. I always thought this was normal behavior because of the way the desktop version works..... Not sure I really care which way it behaves - just would like to get my emails in a timely fashion .

 

[digitalfx]

mine has been deleting the email for over a year now...but why do you need it? All the info is in your cal once you accept.

 

[ssmed]

I think this is the correct behaviour

 

[uandme72]

mine has been deleting the email for over a year now...but why do you need it? All the info is in your cal once you accept.

I think this is the correct behaviour

The current behaviour of auto-deletion of invitation mail is flawed because it removes the invitation mail which is otherwise an important piece of evidence of having been invited by the sender. After the invitation mail has been deleted, there is no electronic piece of record which would be a testimony to the invitation if required at any future point of time. Even though the reply confirmation is displayed in the Inbox > "Replied" portion of the iOS Calendar app, that confirmation is hardly valid as an evidence as compared to an email. Moreover, the details in the Replied portion do not get backed up on iCloud, and they vanish and do not get restored if the iPhone is setup as new and again linked to the mail and calendar accounts which had contained the Invitation and its reply. Hence, the feature of showing the reply confirmation in "Replied" portion of Inbox in iOS calendar app does not fulfill the purpose of acting as a record for evidence purposes.

I have seen iOS sometimes delete the invite when accepting from the iOS Calendar app - and in other versions it did not delete (always seem to be on he beta train). What is normal though? iOS 13.3.1 b2 currently deletes the invite, at least for me, just tried it.
When accepting an Outlook invite on my Widows PC with Outlook 2013 (within the email preview), it tells me with a pop-up that it is going to delete the mail invite, then does so. I always thought this was normal behavior because of the way the desktop version works..... Not sure I really care which way it behaves - just would like to get my emails in a timely fashion .

A prompt before deletion and then giving the option to refuse it, is a better approach.
The iOS Microsoft Outlook App also does not delete the mail when you accept the invite from the Calendar portion of the app.