ICloud – How to remove Calendar event without the sender’s notification

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Today I got an event request from a "fake ray ban" scammer/seller for my iCloud calendar. The calendar is shared/synced with my iPhone via iCloud.

Unfortunately, when I pressed delete, the calendar popup told me that deleting the event means also I'll decline it and the sender will be notified.

I want to remove the event without notifying the sender, because the event is sent to many other generated email addresses and I don't want confirm my address by declining the event.

This is a very serious Calendar privacy problem. If there isn't an simple solution it is enough reason for me stopping using Apple's calendar.

So, how do I remove the event from my notebook's calendar, my iCloud-synced iPhone's calendar, without notifying the sender?

Best Answer

I found this free workaround over on Superuser.

Basically, you disable networking, delete the event, then delete the notification from email:

  1. Turn off networking on your Mac
  2. Delete the event from iCal
  3. Wait for the notification to show up in your Outbox
  4. Delete email from Outbox
  5. Turn back on networking

Once networking is back on, the sync will remove the other events from iCloud and your phone.

Echoing Jaime Santa Cruz's comment below, you should definitely block the sender. You have already confirmed your email because it (probably) already sent a notification that you accepted; best to be safe and not sorry.

As to your second question, "...it is enough reason for me stopping using the insecure Apple's calendar?" it would generate too much opinion to go into.

That said, I personally use Office365 Exchange Online ($48 for the year), Outlook.com, OneDrive and Azure for my cloud services with my iMac, MacBook Pro, XServe and (soon) a refurbished Mac Pro. I don't know if that says anything...

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