Create And Accept iPhone or iPad Calendar Invitations

This is one of my favorite topics and I will gladly take you through the process of teaching you how to create and accept Calendar invites on your iPhone and iPad, and I say gladly because I will surely contribute to making your life much easier! So this article is addressed to all of you out there who have relatives or friends – dear ones for instance, or even business contacts that use the default Calendar app on their iPhones and iPads iDevices.

If you are in this category then be informed that you can now share events and even calendars with each other in a very simple manner and also very efficiently. If you are part of a big family and therefore tend to organize all sorts of activities with them, holidays or any type of socializing event actually – then you can easily have a shared calendar and waste no time in getting things done. It saves you the hassle of a lot of phone calls or crazy email threads. Also, if you have a big group of friends and you do a lot of things together, then you will also greatly benefit from sharing your events and calendars. And the list of benefits doesn’t stop here. As mentioned, shared calendars is also highly used when it comes to one’s profession and in business related matters, so you can use this with the members of your team with which you collaborate on a regular basis and pretty much have the same schedule overall. So you should definitely invite them to your calendar and to the events that you have created – and hurry up the process in getting things done rather than wasting time by sending out separate emails (to different colleagues), then waiting for their reply and therefore developing a tangled email thread that can be avoided from the very beginning with the use of a share calendar. Don’t you think you could also very much benefit from this as well? Just picture it.

So now that we have got the whole theory out of the way and we have established the necessity of having a shared calendar, let’s mention the sub-chapters of our article. Stick with us to see how it’s done. We will firstly share with you how to share an event on your iPhone and iPad yourself, and then secondly how to share a calendar on your iPhone and iPad. Once you are familiar with this, we will get on to teaching you how to actually accept an event invitation on your iPhone and iPad, and as a last topic – how to accept a shared calendar invite on your iPhone and iPad. I guess you saw these two one coming, huh?

Sharing an event on your iPhone and iPad

1. You will firstly need to launch the Calendar app from the Home screen of your iPhone and iPad. Now you are ready to proceed with the next few steps.
2. For this step you have two options: you can either create a new event or the second option would be to tap an already existing event that you want to share.
3. For the third step we have the tapping on the Edit button (this button is located in the upper right hand corner).
4. Now you want to start to actually invite people – so you need to tap on Invitees (you can find this option under the Edit options menu).
5. How can you do this? Well you can either start typing the name of a contact, or the second option would be to tap on the blue + button (located in the right of the to field) so that you can successfully access your Contacts list.
6. Once all the previous steps performed, you also need to tap the contact name. If it happens that they have multiple email addresses, then just tap the email address you want to send the invitation to.
7. If you have more persons you would like to invite, then you will have to repeat the process for each person once again.
8. Now that you have finished inviting everybody, you simply have to tap the Done button (located in the upper right hand corner) as soon as you have finished.

Once that all the above 8 steps have been completed, you shall get your most wanted result – and the invite shall now be sent by email to everyone you’ve added. Let’s hope they shall all accept it.

Accepting an event invitation on your iPhone and iPad

The accepting of an event invite on your iPhone and iPad is actually even more easy than the sharing of an event, so here are its steps to follow:

1. You will first need to launch the Calendar app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad, as we have previously done.
2. Then you just need to tap on the Inbox button (located in the lower right hand corner). As an alternative, you can also tap on the grayed out event that appears outlined in your event list. Just take whichever option suits you best.
3. Once step 1 and step 2 completed, you have to tap accept to add the event to your calendar. If you don’t want to accept this event, then you can also tap decline. If you are not yet decided whether you want to have this event or not in your calendar, you could tap maybe and you can therefore decide on it at a later stage.

Sharing a calendar on your iPhone and iPad

But before we start showing you the steps of how to share a calendar on your iPhone and iPad, we have to bring to your attention that it is currently only possible to do a calendar sharing for iCloud calendars, so in order for this action to happen everybody involved has to be an user of iCloud, otherwise the sharing is not compatible.

And now that we got this out of the way, here are the steps you need to follow:

1. The first is the usual one and involves the launching of the Calendar app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Secondly, you need to tap on the Calendars button (once again – located in the upper left hand corner of the main calendar view).
3. And now comes the interesting part. You have to tap on the blue arrow next to the name of the iCloud calendar you have decided you want to share.
4. Now you need to tap the “Add Person…” option (which you can find under the Shared with… header, in case you have issues locating it).
5. Then again you have 2 options at your disposal: the first of them is to start typing the name of a contact, or the second one is to tap on the blue + button in the right of the to field to access your Contacts list.
6. For the sixth step you have to tap the contact name and, if they have multiple email addresses, tap the email address (buy you need to remember that iCloud only is compatible) you want to send the invitation to.
7. Just like sending out an event invite, you will also here have to repeat the process for each person you’d like to invite.
8. Once you have finalized the list, you have to tap the Done button in the upper right hand corner and you have reached the final step. Congrats!

Now that all the steps have been followed (correctly), your calendar will be shared with everyone that you added to the list.

Accepting a shared calendar invite on your iPhone and iPad

And now the more fun part – who doesn’t like to get invited to things, even to a calendar, right? Who know what’s in it!

1. To begin with – you have to launch the Calendar app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Secondly, tap on the Inbox button in the lower right hand corner, or you can also tap on the grayed out event that appears outlined in your event list
3. For the third and also last step you need to tap on Join Calendar to accept the shared calendar.  If you don’t know the person sending you the invite, or you simply don’t want to accept to add the respective shared calendar, you can simply tap Decline.

Once you have performed these easy 3 steps which you can finish in a few moments, the shared calendar will now appear in your list of calendars and filter into your Calendar app. Great job! As you can see, you get get something really great done in only a matter of a few minutes.

I hope this article has helped you get updated with the steps for creating and accepting calendar invites on your iPhone and iPad and also with the creating and accepting event invites. Once you implement these changes, do let us know what your feedback is and if now that you have these options activated your schedule has become more centralized, and therefore much more efficient. Good luck from now on!