ICAL ON PHONE

[kscrafford]

I am the google admin for my work; I am getting everyone's calendar invites to my phone even when I am not invited. I am allowed to accept, deny or maybe the invitation for other people; they never gave me this permission. Why can't we opt out of this? on my old phone the 7s, I never had this issue. 13 mini, I am blowing up with invitations that aren't mine. I have turned off invitation notification and no difference. Can we make better permissions for the icalendar!

[icrew]

Hi @kscrafford :

If your account is an administrator account in Google Workspace, this is expected behavior. See https://support.google.com/a/answer/1084780?hl=en for the details. 

The best practice is to never use an administrator account for your day-to-day work, but rather have the admin be a separate account that you only log in when you need to perform admin tasks. For example, that guards against inadvertently making admin changes yourself, or someone else gaining that access if you step away from your desk for a moment. 

Hope that helps,

Ian

[kscrafford]

So I can't do anything being the administrator to stop seeing their stuff?
I don't want to see their stuff. This was never an issue with my old phone.
I have 56 items in my calendar inbox I can get rid of without answering for
someone Accept or Decline

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[icrew]

Are you referring to Apple's Calendar app on the iPhone, or are you referring to the Google Calendar app for the iPhone?

If it's Apple's calendar app, you can choose which calendars you see: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-multiple-calendars-iph3d1110d4/ios

If it's Google's Google Calendar app, see https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37188?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&oco=1

[shactionable]

@icrewI've had the same problem since upgrading to iOS 16.  It's really annoying. 

@kscraffordIt's the Apple Calendar app, and choosing which calendars you want to see has no bearing on the invites tab, unfortunately.

[icrew]

Thanks for clarifying. In that case, I really think the best answer is the one I mentioned first, don’t use an admin account as your day-to-day work account.  That’s really not a great idea for many more reasons than just the calendar. 

[kscrafford]

I am only aware of the one email address I have that I use.
How do I separate that or what would like look like for an example? Is this a new iOS 16 issue?
Take care, Karen

[icrew · Accepted solution]

Essentially, I'm advising that you--or whomever runs your organization's Google Workspace instance--should create a brand new Google Workspace account (maybe call it  kscrafford-admin@yourcompany.com or whatever), give that kscrafford-admin account the admin privileges you currently have, then remove the admin privileges from the account you use day-to-day. Once you do that, you'd log into kscrafford-admin for anything needing the admin stuff (and log back out when you're done), and just use your regular kscrafford account like any other normal user in your organization.

See https://support.google.com/a/answer/33310?hl=en and https://support.google.com/a/answer/33325?hl=en for more details.

Hope that helps,

Ian

[kscrafford]

Yes. Thanks!

Take care, Karen

[kscrafford]

Interesting. I would if this is some new iOS 16 update issue.

Take care, Karen

[ctlowery]

I've experienced this odd behavior as well since the update to iOS 16. I actually use the Google Calendar app but had the native Apple calendar turned on. I've just turned it off completely for my work account. I do use a separate super admin account but have some administrative rights to calendars in my own user account. This definitely started following the iOS 16 update and occurs on calendars I do not have selected nor have ever opened, very odd.