Apple has acknowledged the problem in a statement to iMore. Speaking to the technology blog, a spokesperson for the company said: "We are sorry that some of our users are receiving spam calendar invitations. "We are actively working to address this issue by identifying and blocking suspicious senders and spam in the invites being sent." Recipients of the spam invites are often left in a confusing situation – as there is no clear solution available to users. "Save 20% on UGGs," one spam promotion claims. "$19.99 Ray-ban&Oakley Sunglasses," another example said. Users can click on the spam event and press the Decline button at the bottom of your iPhone or iPad display to delete the spam event.
Unfortunately, that will also let the spammer know that the email address they have on file actually works. And that's not good.
Apple, please prevent iCloud calendar and photo sharing spam! There is no way to stop it without disabling sharing completely pic.twitter.com/PsSaiQ2S5G
— John Lemp (@duckworth) 19 November 2016
This is a new kind of spam to me. Somehow this month-long event invite showed up on my iCloud calendar. It's from snowboot-hut dot com pic.twitter.com/e89RpsNpSN
— Chris Owens (@ocell) 18 November 2016
This does mean that you'll now have to manually add events to your Apple calendar.
To disable the auto-add feature, navigate to iCloud.com and login with your information.
1. Go to Calendars, and click on the Gear icon.
2. Select Preferences from the Gear menu, then tap Advanced
3. Scroll down to Invitations. Choose the option to receive event invitations via email, rather than in-app notification.
4. Click Save.
And you're done. You will not see anymore of the spam invites clogging up your calendar.
Writer - Liam McClelland | @Liamicy