iCloud Calendar users still affected by spam events years later

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Since 2016, many users of the iCloud calendar have reported having random spam events show up in their calendars on their Apple devices. This problem received lots of coverage in 2016, and Apple said it was working on a fix to be rolled out eventually. Despite Apple’s efforts to fix this issue, recent reports have suggested that these problems are still around. A Reddit thread this week has received over 5,000 upvotes in a struggle to get Apple’s attention and to hopefully get a fix for this issue soon.

Apple really needs to do something about these calendar scams. pic.twitter.com/BIVS0EIWpf

— ✦ (@bieberfluid) June 20, 2021

These spam calendar events are supposedly triggered in various ways, with the most common being receiving a popup or calendar invite on a website in Safari. These are sometimes displayed as a regular iCloud calendar event invite with accept, decline, and maybe prompts on them. If the user clicks accept or even maybe, this gives the website their email address and a way to show the events. Some users are instead shown a popup or other prompt on a shady website which must be accepted to continue browsing the site.

While Apple has not officially released a solution to fix this issue, they have posted a video on their support page and YouTube channel, which offers some help.

Although this video does have a solution and a way to get rid of spam calendar events, the best way to avoid getting them in the first place is to thoroughly read through any popups or calendar invites on Safari and other apps before accepting them.

Avoiding potentially shady websites is also a good way to make sure you do not end up with spam events in your iCloud Calendar.

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Published to Apple Scoop on 21st June, 2021.