Thanks, Mark. The amazing thing is, I was able to make the change to calendar on www.icloud.com <http://www.icloud.com/> with VoiceOver on my Mac. It's great to see the iCloud website getting more accessible.
Best, Anna > On Aug 26, 2019, at 8:23 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > How to stop iCloud calendar spam and junk mail > By: William Gallagher > Monday, August 26, 2019 3:15 PM > > If you're suddenly being bothered by iCloud calendar spam invitations, here > are the steps you need to take to get rid of it all in Apple Mail on Mac and > iOS. > > Apple generally does such a good job of cutting out spam that we don't even > have to think about it. Yet, sometimes there will suddenly be a new tidal > wave of the stuff that breaks through. While Apple did seem to have dealt > with the biggest one some years ago, attacks are on the rise again. > > Here's what to do about it -both to rid yourself of the events today and > hopefully never get any again. > > Calendar invitation spam > This type of spam will come in two flavors. One is when you get some junk > email and it includes an invitation alongside the usual Accept, Decline, or > Maybe buttons. The problem here is that whichever of these buttons you > click, it sends a notification back to the sender. > > Which means that sender now knows your email address is a real and active > one. Accept, Decline or Maybe are each just the same way of telling that > spammer to target you more. > > So you can't press any of the buttons. You could just delete the email, but > there is a better way -and it's provided by Apple. > > When that happens, and it's an iCloud invitation, Apple has you covered. In > the email, right under those buttons, there will be a line that offers you a > way out. > > "Do not recognize this sender? Report Junk," it says. > > Click on Report Junk and then delete the email. > > The harder, more intensely irritating spam event, is when this invitation is > not sent over email but is instead pushed out by an assailant. If an event > has appeared in your calendar without you adding it, that's what has > happened. > > When that's the case, though, this event hasn't just been added to your > overall Calendar, it's actually been added to one calendar in your set of > them. If you've never tried dividing work and home events into different > calendars that get displayed together, you may not even have known that you > can do this. > > As well as, for instance, "home" or "work" calendars, though, you can create > as many as you like and name them in any way you want. > > So create one called Spam. > > You can create a new calendar and move all spam into it. Then either don't > display that calendar, or delete it entirely -along with those events > > On the Mac, you do this by: > . Open Calendar > . Choose File/New Calendar > . In the Calendar sidebar, click to name this new calendar > > On iOS devices, you instead: > . Tap Calendars at the bottom of the screen > . Tap Add Calendar > . Name it > . Tap Done > > In either case, you now have a new calendar and by default, it's always > displayed alongside your regular one. You could choose to stop it being > displayed by just unticking it, on the Mac or iOS, and so never see anything > in there. > > To get of these errant events, though, click on one and assign it to your > Spam calendar. Do that to as many as you have, and then do delete the > calendar. > > On the Mac: > . Right click on the calendar > . Choose Delete > . From the dialog that appears, choose Delete again > > On iOS: > . Tap Calendars > . Tap on the i button next to your Spam calendar > . Scroll to the bottom > . Tap Delete Calendar > > In either case, you have removed that calendar -and also all of the spam > events in it. And you didn't send the junk mailer any notification. > > Stop it from happening again > Apple changed its systems specifically to help stop you getting any more of > this, and it did so by altering Calendar's preferences -on iCloud.com. > There's nothing you can do, not officially, on a Mac app outside of Safari, > or on iOS device, but you can set a preference online. > > It'd be good if this were a setting in Mail on iOS or Mac, but at least here > in iCloud it should catch spam events before you see them > . Log in to iCloud.com > . Click on Calendar > . Click on the cog icon at bottom left > . Choose Preferences > . Click Advanced > . Select Receive event invitations as an Email > > Now if someone wants to spam you, they'll have to try to call you and hassle > you that way -and we've details on how to reduce those calls, too. > > Keep up with AppleInsider by downloading the AppleInsider app for iOS, and > follow us on YouTube, Twitter @appleinsider and Facebook for live, > late-breaking coverage. You can also check out our official Instagram > account for exclusive photos. > Comments > > Original Article at: > https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/08/26/how-to-stop-icloud-calenda > r-spam-and-junk-mail > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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