Iphone Spam Calendar Invites +picture
For the aftermost few weeks, I’ve noticed that I’ve been accepting an arrival of spam agenda invitations to my iCloud account, generally from accidental affected retailers. “Save 20% on UGGs” one says. “$19.99 Ray-ban&Oakley Sunglasses,” says another.
I’m not the alone one. Users beyond the web acquire complained about this arrival of spam. The New York Times alike covered it. And aback The Times is on it, you apperceive it’s a absolute thing.
The problem—which is additionally entering iCloud Photo Sharing—occurs because macOS and iOS automatically browse your inbox for agenda invites. Users are again prompted to acquire the allurement anon on their calendar.
This is a abundant feature, best of the time, because it saves you accepting to chase your inbox for invitations. But it can get absolutely annoying aback you get an arrival of spam invites to sales for UGGs or Ray-Bans.
We’ve accomplished out to Apple to see if they acquire any affairs to advice stop the arrival of spam, and we’ll amend this column if we apprehend back.
In the meantime, there are few things you can do to stop the spam from actuality such a nuisance. You can hit “decline” on the agenda invite, but all that does is let the spammer apperceive your email abode absolutely works. That’s NOT a acceptable idea.
Instead, there are a few solutions that the Stack Exchange accumulation has formed out. The aboriginal band-aid is to actualize a new agenda alleged “Spam” and accelerate all the spam invitations there. Again annul that calendar.
That’s a solution, but not a abundant one.
The additional band-aid is to attenuate the auto-add agenda affection from your iCloud account.
To do this, you acquire to go to iCloud.com and login with your iCloud info.
1. Go to Calendars. Click the accessory figure and baddest Preferences
2. Click on Advanced
3. Scroll bottomward to Invitations and baddest to advantage to accept accident invitations via email, rather than as an in-app notification.
4. Click Save
Again, the downside of this advantage is that you won’t see any automated pop-ups of acceptable agenda invites either; you’re ashore activity to email like an animal.
The best band-aid would be for Apple to acquiesce bodies to mark agenda invites as spam—or to acclimatize its spam algorithm to anticipate those agenda invites from hitting our inboxes to activate with.
[Stack Exchange via Ars Technica]
