Apple‘s native calendar manager is the favorite option of many to use as an agenda. It has the advantage of being fast and efficient, being able to even add events to the calendar from the Apple Watch. But not all that glitters is gold, since in recent times we are witnessing how spam appears within the app . This evil really comes from afar and it is something that Apple itself has remembered now and that we invite you to know to solve it if you are already affected and prevent it from happening again in the future.
The origin of a problem dating back several years
Surfing the internet, like everything in life, has its advantages and disadvantages. The reception of spam is one of the oldest negative points of this time and the main problem that you can find in the iPhone calendar. There are numerous pages that try to sneak your advertising through calendars that are added to your manager on iOS. And this has happened for several years, since it took advantage of the possibility that Apple gives to add calendars quickly to try to ‘sneak’ that spam.
These are calendars that fill you with the days and weeks of alleged events in whose description you usually find a url that directs to a certain page that in the best of cases offers products and services legally. At worst, they lead to phishing websites in which they try to impersonate a store known as Amazon or Apple to scam users . Therefore, if you are observing that your calendar has events of this kind, usually animated with emojis and other characters to get your attention, do not doubt that it is spam.
How to delete them and / or prevent them from being added to your iPhone
The first thing you should do is browse the internet with caution. If at any time you see an unwanted link to add a calendar to your device, do not click on it. In case you have done it or the app has been directly opened to add it, reject it. If you do not see the option to do so due to an error or you have noticed that you added it at some point by mistake, you can delete it very easily, having to follow these simple steps:
- Open the Calendar app on your iPhone.
- Click on the “Calendars” option located in the lower central part.
- Locate the spam calendar and click on the “i” that appears next to it.
- Swipe down and click on “Delete calendar”.
- Confirm that you want to delete it.
Once you have done this, you can forget about receiving notifications of pseudo-events, as well as seeing your entire agenda collapsed with these tedious advertising messages. It should be noted that you can also delete them from an iPad or Mac where you are logged in with the same Apple ID. Likewise, if you use other iPhone calendar apps, you can also delete them through them.