Deleting spam iPhone calendar invites (how to)

I had spam calendar events, which when deleted just kept coming back. Very annoying as I had a month’s worth with alerts set which kept going off with spam promotional offers!


I’ve found a way to get rid of them, if you need help getting rid of them too, please use the steps below:


Open the spam event in your calendar. Select the sender’s email address and copy it.


Open your mail app, paste the email address into the search bar and it will find corresponding spam emails from the sender in your emails.


Tap the contact and on the next menu screen select ‘block this contact’. Then delete the email.


when you switch back to the calendar app, you’ll find that the invite has gone.

iPhone 16

Posted on Dec 24, 2024 02:16 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2024 10:09 PM

This didn’t work. There are

no corresponding emails from which i use this action. Every how-to i have read uses a blocking technique from a facetime/mail/message/phone access point. I cannot add directly to blocked: add new is greyed out.


How can I block directly from calendar.

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Jan 1, 2025 02:34 PM in response to Pamsal

You may need to wait for Apple to update the calendar app in a future update to prevent these sites from doing this.


Another way to check is to see what colour the event is in your calendar app. My spam events are purple. When I select “calendars” at the bottom of the screen in my app, I can see that the purple events correspond to my outlook calendar, which points towards an email being the cause.


So far the only spam events I’ve had are outlook events that have been added without my knowledge by spam emails, and deleting the emails has worked every time.


if yours are in another calendar or coming in by another means, I don’t know how to fix it.

Jan 1, 2025 09:18 AM in response to Pamsal

There will definitely be a corresponding Email. Check all folders including spam and junk. It’ll be in there! Mine are almost always in the “junk email” folder, which can be found by using the “mailboxes” option to come out of your regular inbox and see your other mail folders.


Once the email is deleted the calendar invite disappears. I like to block the sender for extra measure.


There is no way to delete the event directly from the calendar app, (not that I’ve been able to find), it just comes right back if you delete or decline the calendar event itself.


check all emails in the app/account linked to your calendar and you’ll

find it. I’ve had 100% success with this method!

Jan 1, 2025 02:50 PM in response to OllyN86

Hi Olly,

Many thanks for your additional thoughts.

Mine is also coming from my outlook calendar. Somehow, it is going straight to my calendar via an outlook invite, but somehow they make the original email message disappear. This is happening in multiple unwanted spam invites I have received.

I agree, time for Apple to improve their spam calendar event invite detection and either block it, or at least ensure the recipient can delete the event and block the originator.

I wonder if anyone from Apple monitors these threads and can respond?

Much appreciated.


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