There was the event, waiting acceptance.Ī wonderful example of how being clever can be stupid.Ī family member tells me her iCloud invitations appear to recipients with a name that is only associated with the Apple ID she uses for iTunes purposes - because it’s on her credit card. Google found the 2011 StackExchange comment so I checked my unused iCloud calendar. I didn’t get an email, and her iCloud account didn’t show a sent message.

Using my sister’s iCloud calendar I invited myself using my gmail address. I discovered this while doing research for a book on using smartphones to support independent living for special needs teens and adults. There is such a thing as being too clever. Instead an iCloud Calendar event will be created. So if you invite with a gmail address, and iCloud finds an iCloud address associated with the gmail address Contact (see update for correction), no email will be sent to Google Calendar. If the invited person does not have an iCloud address in contacts then an email will be generated. If they don't actually use that iCloud calendar they will never see the invitation. If that person has an iCloud email address then the invitation will go to their iCloud calendar. When you send an event invitation to an email address iCloud will look up the person associated with that email address (possibly using Contacts). It's not a new behavior, it was first documented in 2011. I suspect few people use iCloud Calendar invitations - or else we'd all know about this. Warning: iCloud Calendar invitations have unpre. I’m not sure what’s more amazing - that this has been broken for five years, or that someone once thought this was a clever idea, or that almost no-one understands what’s wrong…

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