Can't Accept events sent to my iCloud Calendar from a Google Calendar on iPhone (and on iCloud.com browser)

I am using an iPhone 15 Pro Max on iOS 17.4


How can I accept a Calendar invite sent to my iCloud Calendar from a Google Calendar email? Even though I see the invite in my email, it does not show up in the "Inbox" section of the calendar app.


To test this, I sent 3 calendar invites from a Google Calendar Gmail to an iCloud Calendar email.


  • iPhone
    • When opening the Calendar app, none of the invitation emails are present in the "Inbox" section.
    • When opening the email with the first invitation on the iPhone’s Mail App, I can scroll down and click on the invite.ics file to add it to my calendar.
    • The iOS Calendar app opens and it creates a calendar event that includes the iCloud and the Gmail email on it.
    • There is no way for the iPhone user to accept the calendar invite from the Calendar app.
    • The iPhone user can click the “Yes” button in the Google calendar and the Gmail person will see that it was accepted, but the iCloud calendar does not reflect that update.
  • MacOS
    • When opening the email with the second invitation on MacOS’s Mail App, I can double click on the invite.ics file to add it to my calendar.
    • The MacOS Calendar app opens and it also creates a calendar event that includes the iCloud and the Gmail email on it.
    • The iCloud user has the ability to click “Accept” and the iCloud calendar.
    • An email is sent to the Gmail user stating that the iCloud user has accepted the invite.
    • The Gmail user can see on their calendar that the iCloud user has accepted the invite.
  • iCloud We Browser
    • I could not find a way to accept the Google Calendar invite from iCloud’s web interface.
    • When opening the Mail App on iCloud.com, you can open the email and see the invite.ics attachment in the third invitation email.
    • When you click on it, it simply downloads the attachment.
    • When opening the Calendar App, you cannot see the invite from the Google account


Right now, I'm only able to gracefully work with Google Calendar invites when accepting them on a Mac. But I am often on the go and would like to be able to do the same on my iPhone.

Posted on Mar 5, 2024 10:25 AM

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Apr 4, 2024 09:54 AM in response to Alex G84

I was able to fix it, but I needed to sign into my iCloud account on a Mac.


To resolve this on my account I did the following:

  • Open the Calendar app on MacOS
  • Click on an event where you have invited someone
  • Click on the arrow next to their name and click invite again (Example: https://i.imgur.com/lLBOOCv.png)


When I manually re-sent the invitation email, it finally sent one out.


For whatever reason, after doing that, all future events were properly sending out email alerts.

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Can't Accept events sent to my iCloud Calendar from a Google Calendar on iPhone (and on iCloud.com browser)

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