How to safely remove a calendar invite from a spammer

There is no option to delete a spam calendar invite. I've tried to delete it from the calendar inbox, I've tried deleting it from the proposed date. It seems like a security issue to decline an event from a spammer as that would send a message to the spammer. I tried calling Apple support. Tier 1 suggested declining the event, so I asked to be moved to tier 2 support, who told me to remove it from my email inbox where it came from, but it's already removed and blocked. He said that each time I got a spam message to remove my account from calendar and re-add it. I have not tried this as it's not a realistic solution for every spam message. I feel like spammers are going to get wind of this idea and start flooding people with calendar invites that they cannot delete.

I looked at the support website and only found how to remove events that are already added, not invites.

I can't be the only person who thinks replying to spammers is a security issue, or the only person who thinks removing and re-adding your account is not a solution.


Posted on Mar 22, 2025 10:24 AM

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Mar 22, 2025 1:27 PM in response to ElysiumPlantoraMaxus

I've gone ahead and confirmed my email address is live to the spammer by declining the invite, and was able to remove the declined event. I don't think there is an answer for this, it's just a security issue that is present and we have not choice but to confirm to spammers that our email address is monitored by a live human. I've lived with worse I guess. I'll move on.

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Mar 22, 2025 1:29 PM in response to MrHoffman

I agree that this has been a Microsoft problem for a very long time now and is the same problem for you if you are using an Outlook, Hotmail, or other Microsoft Exchange account. The Calendar app on your iPhone is syncing with this email account and anything that shows up on the Microsoft servers will appear in your calendar. You can quit syncing that account with your Calendar and the issue will immediately go away.

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Mar 22, 2025 1:34 PM in response to MrHoffman

No, I don't use Microsoft. I use iCloud and other services to host the messages. From what I understand, when the mail is received by the iOS Mail app, that's when a calendar event is automatically created regardless of what smtp server it came from.

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Mar 22, 2025 1:48 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

I don't use Microsoft, Outlook, Hotmail, Exchange online, or any Microsoft email product. I don't sync my calendar to any online calendar except for iCloud. I don't subscribe to spam calendars. I just got an email message with a calendar invite, and the phone automatically put that invite into the calendar as an invite that cannot be removed without declining or accepting first. This is a privacy concern, but it looks like there is no fix.

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