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iCloud calendar invitations issues

Thanks for the update @k.alexander
I recently switched back to Apple Notes from Google Keep because of the fixes and changes in iOS 11, but it sounds like I should stay with Google Calendar for now. I haven’t had a single calendar invite problem since switching.
 
k.alexander said:
Is everyone experiencing the same issues still? Anyone have any other information?
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So here we are in January of 2018, a year later, and yes the issue is still here. Simple text based invitations come through as in app notifications, anything more complex still comes through as an email.

Getting emails instead of in app notifications confuses the heck of my non techie friends. Plus rescheduling and updates no longer seem reliable in the email scenario, nor are the invitee responses in the original invite always reliable.

My friends have concluded that iCloud calendars don't "just work" and they are considering switching (but they'd rather not).

It reminds me of when Steve Jobs lost his temper about how crappy MobileMe was: "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"
 
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I'm so frustrated with these little things, here and there, that just don't work on iCloud, that I have half-a-mind to switch to all google services. Just ridiculous! Can't get anyone at Apple to acknowledge or respond or address this problem!
 
k.alexander said:
Can't get anyone at Apple to acknowledge or respond or address this problem!
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I've had other calendar issues (related to contacts' birthdays replicating) that I've opened cases about with Apple. And I've found Apple very good about eventually looking into the problems.

But it takes quite a bit of time on the phone to convince the level 1 or 2 person that the problem needs to be addressed by their iCloud engineering team. You basically have to hand them the defect scenario on a platter. That's what stops me from phoning them - the time needed.
 
ingsings said:
I've had other calendar issues (related to contacts' birthdays replicating) that I've opened cases about with Apple. And I've found Apple very good about eventually looking into the problems.

But it takes quite a bit of time on the phone to convince the level 1 or 2 person that the problem needs to be addressed by their iCloud engineering team. You basically have to hand them the defect scenario on a platter. That's what stops me from phoning them - the time needed.
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This is true. I still have an open case from 12/31/16 on Apple Music new music mix playlist.
 
ingsings said:
I've had other calendar issues (related to contacts' birthdays replicating) that I've opened cases about with Apple. And I've found Apple very good about eventually looking into the problems.

But it takes quite a bit of time on the phone to convince the level 1 or 2 person that the problem needs to be addressed by their iCloud engineering team. You basically have to hand them the defect scenario on a platter. That's what stops me from phoning them - the time needed.
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I didn't know there was such a team as "iCloud engineering team"; is that the actual name of the team?

For the record, I have spent hours and hours on the phone with Apple regarding this issue, back in Nov-Dec 2016, and at least once or twice again in 2017. I made sure I went straight to level 2 support. I had that person then relay messages and questions back and forth between other higher level engineers and myself. I have absolutely handed the problem to them on a platter, and now 15 months since this started, they have still not fixed it.

I even reported this as a bug in the developer bug reporter. This was back on October 2, Apple finally responded on November 29, asking for more information (although I can tell that since they're asking for device logs and this is clearly an iCloud problem, they don't understand what I've explained to them in excruciating detail). I did provide the additional info but have not heard since.

Honestly thinking of emailing someone like Tim Cook at the 1 in a million chance that he will read the email.
 
ISSUE MAY BE FIXED!?!

Would appreciate some folks on here confirming if the calendar invite issue is fixed. Was just discussing this ongoing issue with a friend, and ended up doing some tests, and all of our invites are going through, received as proper Calendar in-app notifications and not as e-mails.

Could you guys check if it's fixed for you all?
Is it possible that after a year plus of reporting this everywhere I could think, including filing at least one Bug Report (#34775590) a few months ago, that Apple finally addressed this issue?
 
k.alexander said:
ISSUE MAY BE FIXED!?!

Would appreciate some folks on here confirming if the calendar invite issue is fixed. Was just discussing this ongoing issue with a friend, and ended up doing some tests, and all of our invites are going through, received as proper Calendar in-app notifications and not as e-mails.

Could you guys check if it's fixed for you all?
Is it possible that after a year plus of reporting this everywhere I could think, including filing at least one Bug Report (#34775590) a few months ago, that Apple finally addressed this issue?
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My shared calendar always send in-app and emails for scheduled events. We don't do invites, just post on each others calendar
 
whsbuss said:
My shared calendar always send in-app and emails for scheduled events. We don't do invites, just post on each others calendar
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Im not talking about a SHARED calendar. I'm talking about me sending an invite from my calendar to someone else's calendar. As discussed at length above, and elsewhere: "the issue is still here: Simple text based invitations come through as in app notifications, anything more complex still comes through as an email." You can skim through the discussion thread for more detailed examples of what works/doesn't work, when/how/why...
 
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k.alexander said:
Im not talking about a SHARED calendar. I'm talking about me sending an invite from my calendar to someone else's calendar. As discussed at length above, and elsewhere: "the issue is still here: Simple text based invitations come through as in app notifications, anything more complex still comes through as an email." You can skim through the discussion thread for more detailed examples of what works/doesn't work, when/how/why...
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Is it between iCloud calendars or iCloud to other calendars
 
Just received an email from Apple indicating that they’ve actually fixed my bug report! I almost find it hard to believe, but it is consistent with my recent tests.
 
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k.alexander said:
Just received an email from Apple indicating that they’ve actually fixed my bug report! I almost find it hard to believe, but it is consistent with my recent tests.
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So HOLD THE NEWS....are we saying we/invitees will no longer get those nasty emails with YES OR NO acceptance? jesus. Cant be real!!!!
 
k.alexander said:
Just received an email from Apple indicating that they’ve actually fixed my bug report! I almost find it hard to believe, but it is consistent with my recent tests.
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wow, it only took them what? Year and half to fix this problem? While my invitations are working since I engaged support, I am loosing faith in the Apple icloud services. My wife and are very close to pull a trigger and subscribe to Office 365 (even considering a business one to get a custom domain) and be done with this amateur joke that icloud still is.
 
k.alexander said:
Just received an email from Apple indicating that they’ve actually fixed my bug report! I almost find it hard to believe, but it is consistent with my recent tests.
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I’m not able to test the purported fix at the moment, but when I do I’ll report back here.

Dave Ings
 
Oh joy. Sometime within the past 2 weeks this iCloud calendar problem has reappeared. Except this time it isn't invites with maps/locations disappearing into a black hole, it's invites including URLs, or at least Zoom URLs.

Based on past performance, it will take Apple a very long time to fix this.

Dave Ings
 
The unfortunate truth is that Apple cares more about PowerPoint style visual effects in the operating system GUI than having robust, dependable, working software and cloud systems.

Apple has a long history of face plants with “eWorld”, er no i mean “Mac.com”, er , ah, no wait it’s “Mobile Me”, ah, oops I mean “iCloud”. Their web weenies just don’t get basic computer science concepts that allow their systems to work for more than the most trivial use case.

Mail was fixed but it took them over 10 years to correct that cranial-rectal impaction. Calendar is still SNAFU and will remain that way until at least 2025 based upon Apple’s prior performance.

if your privacy is of no concern, then Google gets how to do calendars.
 
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