Stopping spam iCloud Calendar invites and notifications

Ok then, on your phone go to Settings > Apps > Calendar > Accounts and tap each account one at a time and temporarily uncheck the box for syncing that Calendar. On each one check to see if the event goes away when opening the Calendar app. If you find the event go away with either one disabled, then you have found the source of where that event came from. If not, go ahead and enable those accounts and move on to the next step.

The next step is to check if you have a Subscribed Calendar at Settings > Apps > Calendar > Accounts that is not one of your regular accounts, that could be the source of the spam and you can delete that unknown calendar by tapping on it and choose Delete Account.

The next step is to open the Calendar app and tap the Calendar icon on the bottom of the screen to show a list of your Calendars. If you see a Calendar there that you do not recognize then tap the info button next to it and scroll to the bottom to Delete Calendar. This could also appear in the Gmail or Outlook sections as well as being an independent Calendar. Also on that same page, make sure the Siri Suggestions is not checked which should appear in the Other section and below that turn off the toggle for Show Declined Events.

And finally for spam iCloud events, go to www.icloud.com and sign into your account.

• Tap the grid icon and choose the Calendar.
• Tap the 3 dot button and choose Settings.
• Tap Account
• In the section under Receive Invitations, choose each one there and select via Email, instead of having that invite showing via in-app Notifications.

Depends on the email provider.

If these are coming from your iCloud email address, then turn off Siri Suggestions on the Calendar by opening the Calendar app and tapping the Calendar icon on the bottom of the screen. If Siri Suggestion show it is selected, tap it to turn it off.

What is seen more frequently is when the email address is a Google or Microsoft address where it is being added to their corresponding calendars and synced to the Calendar app on your device. For a Microsoft address, it is the Outlook Calendar and you can sign into that Calendar on the web. Removing it there will no longer sync it to your device, and there also is a Setting on the web for Outlook to prevent Calendar Invites from being automatically added to the Calendar, and that will prevent future invites scraped from the email account being synced to the Calendar app on your device.

For a Google email address, it uses the Google Calendar and the procedure is the same where you can sign into the Google Calendar and there is also a setting there similar to what is found with Outlook to prevent syncing invites that are scraped from the email address.

Thanks. I immediately logged into my Microsoft & Google accounts given your recommendation suspecting that the unwanted invites were originating from either MSN or Google but, lo and behold, it appears as if these invites/events are only appearing on my Apple Calendar. Despite this, I made sure that automatic invites were deactivated at both locations (& they were). Any other recommendations?

And, just thought I’d add that I’ve never activated SIRI (do reasonable people really use SIRI?). But, just in case, I’ll also check these settings.