iPhone calendar spam: How to stop it

Many iPhone users receive annoying calendar spam every day. Many do not know how to disable these unwanted invitations, which trigger constant, unnecessary notifications and distract them, while filling their calendars with events they are not interested in.

See below for the simplest way to get rid of calendar spam.

What is an Unwanted Calendar Subscription?

While browsing the internet, you may come across the following messages: “Open this page in Calendar”? or “Add Calendar Subscription: would you like to subscribe to this Calendar? Click OK to Continue”.

These prompts are cleverly placed within articles so that users may often click out of curiosity to continue. Tapping “Open” or “OK” out of curiosity or even by mistake automatically activates the Calendar Subscription feature. From that point onwards, the onslaught of annoying Calendar Spam begins. The notifications may seem like a virus, but they are not, and they appear as invitations in Calendar.

How to disable your Calendar Subscription

To put an end to unwanted notifications, follow the steps below. Go to Settings-Mail-Accounts. The spam calendar will appear under Accounts. Select it and tap Delete. If there is more than one, repeat the process for each one individually. If you have an older version of iOS, you will need to follow the same process via Settings and the Passwords option. However, this method only hides the messages, whereas the procedure above will get rid of unwanted notifications completely.