Accepting iCal events

Does anyone know when I will be able to accept ical events on my iphone? Or if I can already - how?
Thanks

If you mean iCal events sent as email attachments (.ics files), those cannot currently be handled by the Mail app on the iPhone. No one on these user-to-user forums knows when or if Apple will implement that capability.
You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.
Calendar invites sent directly (via MobileMe or MS Exchange) can be accepted on the iPhone.

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This conversation is a couple of months old, but... iPhone OS 3.1 was announced AND nothing happened, .ics invitations in an email cannot be read on the iPhone and/or posted to calendar. What's also pretty surprising is that I have gone through ten pages of this "Mail, Contacts and Calendar" discussion forum and I have only seen 2 maybe 3 mentions of this very frustrating situation. Apple doesn't seem to be bothered by this and in the meantime we, the users, keep getting frustrated. Let's wait.

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A.Che

To clarify this issue - (as I am having a similar issue)...
From iCal I can easily accept and respond to meeting requests sent to me from a person using Outlook 2003
The problem is the other way round - My meeting requests from iCal do not seem to be accepted by Outlook. I am generating an email that has a *.ics file extension and it is being sent via mail, but when the recipient (using Outlook 2003) receives the email, it is formatted as plain text and does not have a file attachment.
When that person forwards the message back to me, it DOES have the attachment still attached (which I can open on my own PC).
What is the trick to sending an iCal meeting request to an Outlook user so that they can add it to their calendar (and respond to the request)?? Apparently they receive a plain text email with an attachment that is named "Untitled Attachment" which is then empty (~200 bytes)
Here is a picture of what I am talking about (that they receive in Outlook):
http://screencast.com/t/HntfLYYF5cf
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How to avoid opening mail when accepting iCal event invitation

Can someone tell me how I can prevent Mail to send a reply when I accept an invitation in iCal?
This is very irritating.
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I wrote iCal Reply Checker to help with this issue. It only works with local calendars though.
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I have accepted iCal invitations with repeating events and they have since been deleted from the iCal on my Mac but won't delete from my iPhone. Help

I experienced this issue as well.
Background:
I had opened an ICS attachment for a repeating event on my iPhone, which added the item to my phone's calendar. I did not have the option to delete the calendar entry from my phone, and the item did not appear on the calendar on my Mac. My phone is currently running iOS 7 (but the problem began quite awhile ago; I don't recall which version of iOS was installed when it started).
Solution (summary):
Create a new calendar, move the items that you wish to delete to the new calendar, then delete the new calendar
Solution (detailed steps):
Create a new calendar
On your phone, open the calendar app
Tap the "Calendars" option at the bottom of the screen
Tap the "Edit" button in the top left corner
Scroll to the bottom of the list and tap the "Add Calendar..." option
Give your new calendar a good name, such as "Delete me"
Tap "Done" in the top right corner to save the new calendar
Tap "Done" in the top left corner to finish editing the list of calendars
Tap "Done" to exit the list of calendars
Assign all calendar entries that you wish to delete to the calendar you created in step 1
Tap a calendar entry that you wish to delete
Tap the "Edit" button in the top right corner
Scroll down until you see the Calendar field (on an iPhone or iPod it's usually just below the bottom of the screen), then tap the Calendar field to bring up the list of available calendars
Tap the name of the calendar that you created in step 1 (e.g. "Delete me"); the screen should return to the main calendar entry page
Tap "Done" in the top right corner of the screen. You may need to then tap the "< Day" button on the top left of the screen to return to the main calendar view
Repeat the instructions in step 2 for each of the calendar entries that you wish to delete
Delete the calendar that you created in step 2 (this will delete all calendar entries assigned to this calendar)
From the main screen in the calendar app, tap the "Calendars" option at the bottom of the screen
Tap the "Edit" button in the top left corner
Tap the entry for the calendar that you created in step 2 (e.g. "Delete me")
Scroll to the bottom of the scren and tap the "Delete Calendar" option. You should be prompted with a warning that explains that "All events associated with this calendar will also be deleted."
If you're sure that the only items on this calendar are items that you wish to delete, tap the "Delete Calendar" button
Tap "Done" in the top right corner to exit the Edit Calendars screen
Tap "Done" to exit the list of calendars. You should now be back at the main view of the calendars app
Rejoice, your pesky repeating calendar events have been deleted
At this point all of the items that you assigned to the deleted calendar should be gone
Repeat the steps above for any entries that you missed
Post another message to this thread if this did not resolve your problem
minor edit for clarity made by ScottHooley

Changing ical "accepted:mailto:" in iCal event invitation

Recently I've noticed that iCal has been sending the iCal event invitation with the incorrect "accepted:mailto:" email address. By looking at the raw source of the sent message you can see where the email address goes to when the user accepts the meeting invite.
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Hi Guys,
I was able solve this problem by going into my addressbook, selecting preferences then "Template" and finally adding an extra email field to the template and setting the first email field to "home" and the second one to "work". Then closed the preferences and tested an iCal meeting invite. The reply accept email address now used my home email address.
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First you have to know which calendar your client saved the event to. Usually by default it saves to the native Calendar app. If that is the case, he should be able to log into iCloud and delete the event (decline the invitation) from there. If your client saved the event to an external calendar that he has synched to his iPhone (Yahoo, Google, etc.) he may be able to delete it or decline it from there, which should in turn remove it from the device.
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This topic was discussed here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1029973&#1029973
but is archived and not accepting replies, hence the re-post.
There's an Applescript to link an email to an iCal event using the file:// protocol, but I was wondering if someone who knows about this stuff could achieve a similar effect as a Mac OS X Service, to which a keyboard shortcut could be attached. That way, people can link an email in Mail.app to a new iCal event quickly.

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-- 0.5
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on error theErr
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enjoy.
John M

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Whenever I add an invitee to an iCal event, it doubles up on iCal when they accept. Cannot delete double-up as it deletes it off invitee's calendar.

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1. When I receive email calendar invitations (attachments come in as .ics) I can open the .ics file, accept the event and it goes into iCal for about 5 seconds, then disappears. This only happens on invitations that are sent to me. Events I creat are stable, no issues.
2. The time zone is way off. The events are most frequently coming from an outlook server in my same timezone but the times are usually about 7 to 8 hours later in iCal than stated in the .ics attachment. If I send an acceptance, the time that goes back to the inviter is the incorrect (7 to 8 hours later) time and it causes confusion.
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I actually have three issues, and these appear to be quite common issues with OSX Lion users:
1. When I receive email calendar invitations (attachments come in as .ics) I can open the .ics file, accept the event and it goes into iCal for about 5 seconds, then disappears. This only happens on invitations that are sent to me. Events I creat are stable, no issues.
2. The time zone is way off. The events are most frequently coming from an outlook server in my same timezone but the times are usually about 7 to 8 hours later in iCal than stated in the .ics attachment. If I send an acceptance, the time that goes back to the inviter is the incorrect (7 to 8 hours later) time and it causes confusion.
What's worse is once the iCal invite disappears and I go back to their email invite to re-populate iCal with the invite, it queues up another "Accept / Maybe / Decline" response. Time is still incorrect.
Any thoughts on how to fix these issues for good?
I am using gmail as my main calendar so it syncs with my phone calendar. I am not using MobileMe. I have an iPad 2 and have the same issues with the iPad OS.

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As long as an iCal event is in the "invitation" state, I can't change the event from it's default local calendar to the Exchange calendar. I can move it around within local calendars, but the Exchange options are not available from the pulldown menu. If I create a new event manually, then the Exchange options are available from the pulldown and I can move events to it just fine.
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1) Right click on the event.
2) Select "Create Duplicate"
3) Right-click on the new duplicate.
4) You can now select your Exchange calendar to move it over.
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6) THEN I can select the OLD event on my local calendar and delete it.
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ICloud has reconfirmed all my iCal events thus spamming dozens of people...

After syncing with iCloud, it seems like all my events were "reconfirmed" by iCloud. Since yesterday, I keep receiving emails from people wondering why I accepted an event from 2008 or 2009 just now.
Every event confirmation has the iCloud footer in the email.
All I did was sync my iCal with iCloud, this is quite annoying... I'm just posting to warn others about this.

Hey Csound1,
Looks like we found a solution, it's Mickey Mouse but it works. After talking to two Apple Senior Advisors, this is the fix they came up with:
The first advisor after exploring it for awhile, came to the conclusion the way to get my calendars back local On my Mac with the alerts as I had then was to import the saved .ics files with my my 'dangerous email alerts' being removed then me manually re-adding them. I said that was a no go.
The second advisor, after speaking with me for awhile and trying a few things that we'd tried before said he'd do some work on his end and call me back. A couple of hours later he phoned back with a fix that I guess will have to do, his solution:
I had to go into Calendar-preferencs-accounts and create a Gmail calendar, quit and restart Calendar, I created a calendar in the gMail account. Then I was given the option in Calendar under File-New Calendar to create On my Mac local calendars. Next was to create local calendars with the same names as my iCloud calendars. Now I had to un-check all calendars but one, put Calendar in month view, command-click all the events for the given calendar and drag them to the new local calendar of the same name. I then had to repeat this for each of the calendars and for all 12 months of the year.
I'm not done yet but it seems to be working. As I said Mickey Mouse but doing the job. It seems creating another online calendar account was the only way to get the local On my Mac option, active again. What a pain in the a** this has been, I will repeat it again
iCloud is EVIL.

Accepted iCal Invite - Not updating iCal

I sent out an invitation to an event through iCal to my company. Employees accepted the invites on a variety of machines -- Blackberrys, Macs, PCs, etc. All invites came back to me in my emails, with mime attachments.
When I clicked on the mime attachments to update the accepted attendees, only some of the attendees switched from a question mark to a check mark in my iCal event. Then I noticed that while all accepted emails looked the same, the attachments were named differently:
"iCal-20091103-131437.ics" - from the Mac user (updated to check mark in iCal)
"mime-attachment.ics" - from PC users (updated to check mark in iCal)
"meeting.ics" - from Blackberry users (still question mark in iCal)
So my question is: why are there different accepted .ics files, and why don't they all update my iCal event attendee list? And is there something I can do to work around this?
Thank you.

Kludgy fix to convert an Event to "Accepted" status if iCal doesn't do it automatically.
If the invitee's return email to Accept the event does not change to a √, you can manually fix using TextEdit:
1) drag Event from iCal to your desktop. this will create a .ics file.
2) delete the Event from iCal and choose "delete and dont not notify" option.
3) open the .ics file on desktop with TextEdit.
4) find text "PARTSTAT=NEED-ACTION" is next to the invitees email address within .ics file.
5) change "NEED-ACTION" TO "ACCEPTED" (without "), save changes and quit TextEdit.
6) drag the changed .ics file from desktop back to the day in iCal and let iCal update itself.
7) if you do Get Info on the Event you will now see a √.
I think this automatic update bug has something to do with .ics files have the same id number. At one point when I was dragging the ics file to iCal from Mail, iCal updated the Event with a completely different time and without any Description but the √ correctly appeared. I think my collegues' email app changed some of the internal formatting of the ics file base on what I saw when I opened his attached .ics file.
I hope Apple can fix this.
Good luck.
Frank

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