How to remove SPAM from iCloud Calendar

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Recently, many Apple users are complaining about strange invitations to the iCloud calendar that arrive from senders that they do not know completely, like the ones you can see in the header image (thanks to @ kepalope87). It is a new spam that is flooding the calendars of many iPhone and Mac users and is very annoying, because each invitation involves a notification in addition to the hassle of having to reject it. Precisely in this act of rejecting the invitation lies the biggest mistake that can be made. Do you want to effectively remove these annoying notifications? We explain the best solution that exists at the moment.

Above all do not reject it

When you receive a notification of an event that you do not want, the normal thing is that you directly click on the "reject" button that appears in it. ANDThis is the worst mistake you can make, because by rejecting it you are confirming to the person who sent you the invitation that this account is active, and it will continue to send invitations without stopping. In effect, the invitations are being made randomly, sending them to emails without knowing if they really exist or not, if they are active or not, but as long as you confirm that this account is valid, you are lost and you will be bombarded with more invitations.

First method: create a SPAM calendar

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What we are going to do is take those invitations to a calendar that we are going to create specifically for it, and we will name it "Spam". To do this, go to the iOS Calendar application, click on the "Calendars" button at the bottom, click on "Edit" and then on "Add calendar." Write the name of the calendar (Spam in our example) and click OK. Now move the unwanted invitations to the new calendar and then delete the calendar. It is very important that you choose the option "Do not notify" when you delete it, or you will be making the same mistake that we mentioned before. The problem is that you will have to repeat the procedure every time you receive a notification.

Second method: divert notifications to email

There is a "more permanent" way to eliminate these annoying invitations and that is to divert these notifications from the Calendar application to our email. Apple allows instead of receiving a notification from the Calendar application to send us an email with the invitation. For this we must access our iCloud account from the web browser of any computer.

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We enter the Calendar application and click on the cogwheel at the bottom left. We choose the "Preferences" option and select the "Advanced" tab.

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There we have to look at the bottom, in the "Invitations" section. By default the option "Receive invitations to events such as: Notifications in the application" is activated and we must change to the option "Email in ..." so that the notifications become emails to our inbox. Here we can already use the option to label as Spam so that we are not disturbed. The disadvantage of this method is that all the invitations will be sent to the Spam of our mail, and if it is a function that we use from time to time it would not be convenient.

Two methods for an interim solution to a problem to which Apple should respond shortly with the option to classify as Spam from the Calendar application and block the sender. We will be attentive to the movements that Apple makes in this regard.


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  1.   fond said

    Thank you very much, great tips

  2.   Dey said

    Great, thanks for the tip.