Unable to delete calendar invites on my Calendar App after macOS Sequoia update

I'm using Mac Sequoia and since the update my calendar from my Office 365 account appears as "this event was imported - read-only", which means I can't actually decline or delete any calendar invites. I can decline them on other platforms or devices (i.e Teams, Apple Watch or my iPhone), but even if I delete or decline an invite there, when I go back to Calendar app on Mac, the evenrs are still there. As a result, my days are absolutely full of events and meetings I won't attend, which makes organization a bit hard.


I didn't find any solution to this and it only happened after Mac Sequoia (I also have an Intel-based Mac and this problem doesn't happen there). Any suggestions? I tried disabling and re-enabling the account, no success.


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MacBook Air, macOS 15.1

Posted on Oct 4, 2024 5:06 AM

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Update: The "This event was imported (read-only)" showing on ALL Calendar Events issue seems to have been related to Exchange email aliasing and which "account" Apple sees as "active" when I joined it to exchange. And not just having that email associated to your "me" contact card.


I removed the Exchange account a second time, re-added it using my "alias" as my username, then when clicking the SSO Sign in option using the actual username/password and events now show correctly. Events sent to "me" (aka the alias) now show 'correctly' and any previous 'phantoms' from Events sent to lists have also disappeared. The latter more likely due to deleting the calendar entirely though so I'll have to see the next time I receive a list invite to see whether that functions correctly or not (I suspect it will not).

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Mar 7, 2025 9:11 AM in response to Armando Stettner

Hi, Yes, this resolves the current issue, but any new invite will stick as read-only, and you'll forever enable and disable it to get rid of these items. This is a workaround at best, and if you have a work calendar with thousands of items, the rebuild takes a long time, depending on server congestion.


Please keep it open; it's not a solution for enterprise customers. And yes, they love AppleMail and Calendar because Outlook or Google Calendar don't have this issue. It's a macOS issue. Why can't it toggle the read-only attribute via a terminal script?

Mar 18, 2025 7:20 AM in response to elvisenna

This has been a really irritating issue. I'm on a listserv for work and whenever they send an invite (+ reminders) all of them clog my calendar even if I'm not attending that event. My Outlook calendar doesn't have that invite after I decline, and the email itself is deleted, but Apple calendar helpfully remembers and shows them to me.

Apr 17, 2025 5:29 AM in response to elvisenna

It's been months since I first posted this and it's so frustrating to see it hasn't been resolved. Since then I changed MacBooks, deleted and added calendars and the problem persists. I have to keep double checking my calendars all the time on different platforms, since the native Apple Calendar app is always cluttered with events I just can't delete and sometimes are not even real anymore.


Does anyone from Apple actually read theses posts?

May 13, 2025 7:08 PM in response to elvisenna

This is so annoying


The VOID strategy works, but it's a real hack (albeit a clever one!). I was hoping Apple might have fixed this, but having just "upgraded" to 15.5 I see it's still broken.


I've tried the idea of adding the email alias to my contacts but this doesn't seem to have worked. Anyone who's got this to work, could you give us some more details? Is it the Apple contact list or the Outlook contact list?

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