Hi,

I have an issue relating to calendar invites, sent from my iPhone to my wife's Outlook email address.

I then sent a meeting invitation from my Outlook to user a, and user b received the alert and was able to accept and decline it. So, we're on the right track. Next steps will be to confirm if user b is able to create items on user a's calendar and that type of thing. I will update with results of that testing. I receive quite a lot of meeting invitations in my line of work but luckily I don’t have to attend all of them. However, Outlook automatically accepts these meeting requests as “Tentative” and adds them to my calendar. This makes my Calendar look unnecessarily busy and also often confuses others who check my schedule.

Relevant background info.:

she previously had an iPhone and used her Outlook account on that, but of course, she also had to create an iCloud account - even if it wasn't used.

After the phone died, she replaced it with an Android phone and set up her Outlook account on that device.

The problem is that when I now send her calendar invites from my iPhone (Outlook account), to her Outlook email address, although she receives the emails, when she clicks to accept the invitation into her calendar, it opens up the web browser and seems to be trying to add the invitation to iCloud!?

Now, having researched the problem, the solution seemed to be to log into her iCloud account and go to Calendar > Actions > Preferences > Advanced, then set Invitations... Receive Event Notifications As=Email to.....@icloud.com.

However, it doesn't work.

The field says: Use this option if your primary calendar is not iCloud.

The alternative is Receive Event Notifications As ... In-app Notifications, which I don't think would work, since she is now using Android.

So, it seems that her Outlook email account is somehow associated with her iCloud account.

How do I resolve the problem, so that she can accept my calendar invites?

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