An apparently huge number of iOS and macOS users received calendar invite spam starting late last week. The ones I received were set as a repeating event, making the invitation show up on every day of my calendar. Some users started receiving this spam weeks ago, but the distribution accelerated only around November 23 or 24. I’ve found scattered references as far back as August. The standard iCalendar format can package an invitation in an ICS file, a format you’re probably familiar with for adding events from other calendar services or subscribing to a school or sports calendar via a website. Apple automatically examines ICS attachments sent via email to your iCloud email account, whether or not it’s from a known recipient. By default, an iCalendar invitation gets extracted and shown to you in all your linked calendars in iOS and macOS. This spam includes a URL in the event description. Previous batches tried to trick people into visiting DHL and other sites, but the current large wave is designed to entice an unwary user into clicking it for a bargain. If you click the invite, you can respond with Accept, Decline, or Maybe.
However, no matter what you click, that response is sent back to the inviter, which will surely trigger more spam, because they know your account received the request and you interacted with it. In iOS, you can slide left and then choose Delete, which removes the invitation without providing a response. No similar option appears in macOS. The best option, however, is to disable this automatic invitation parsing altogether. Go to your iCloud Calendar page via a desktop browser. Click the gear icon in the lower-left corner. Click the Advanced icon. In the Invitations section, change the option from In-App Notifications to Email to iCloud Address. Switch the Invitations option away from in-app notifications to avoid calendar event spam. Now spam invitations will appear in your inbox—or, more likely, get automatically marked as spam and never bother you. This is slightly inconvenient if you routinely received and wanted calendar notifications for invitations sent via email—you’ll have to look for these in your inbox and click to add them to your calendar. Via iCloud, iOS Calendar, or any calendar app in macOS, create a “spam” calendar. Assign the invitation to the spam calendar without clicking Accept, Decline, or Maybe. Delete the spam calendar. Click the Delete and Don’t Notify buttons when prompted.
I set up the account and set up phone to sync email, calendar and contacts. Everything syncs except calendar. I have search for calendar specific info, but most of the discussion is about email or contacts. If so what is the magic setting that allows it. Through this article, we are going to discuss about how to sync Outlook calendar with iPhone, and also, we will determine the possible option for this process. Many people think that it is near to impossible to add an Outlook account on an Apple device. But, that’s not the actual situation, if live or outlook is your favorite option to manage your contacts, calendar, mails, then it is very easy for you to set up an Outlook account on your iPhone. It is true that Microsoft might have taken quite a long time, to get their somewhat outdated online consumer services into the modern age, but, what they've finally ended up with, is impressive.
If you need ActiveSync, there is Exchange for you. If you don't, there's Outlook. Just move on with this article and you will learn how to Sync your Outlook Calendar with iPhone. Sync Outlook Calendar with iPhone. There are many reasons to Sync Outlook Calendar with iPhone, however, we have mentioned the major ones below. It saves your time and work. You don’t have to use multiple devices just to access mails. Before you sync your outlook calendar to your iPhone, you have to add your account on your Apple device. So, in order to add Outlook account on your iPhone just follow the following steps. You have to launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Now you have to tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars or Calendars. Now, you have to Tap on Add Account option. Choose the servicesthat you’d like to enable and sync with Outlook and then tap Save in the upper right-hand corner.
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