Invitee responses stuck under iOS 8

The only way I found to remove these invitee responses was to go Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > open the setting for the Exchange account and then turn off Calendars. You will then be asked whether your Exchange Calendar can be removed from your iPhone. Agree to this and click your Home button - the Calendar app will remove all Exchange calendar entries. Then go back into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > open the setting for the Exchange account and then turn on Calendars. All your old invitee responses should now be removed.

Tried everything else and finally found this and it worked. Thank you!

Thanks. Your idea helped me greatly!

Thank you also for the solution!

Thanks for the solution. It was driving me nuts....

Still not fixed in iOS 8.1 😟

I appreciate the work that you did but this is a "workaround" and not a permanent solution. We shouldn't let Apple off the hook that this issue needs to be fixed so that we don't have to perform this workaround in the first place.

Again, I appreciate the workaround to get rid of the immediate problem but it's not a permanent solution.

The removal of the calendar worked perfectly. Thank you for the suggestion!

I, too, wish Apple would provide a way to just disable the stupid invitee responses. I HATE having that badge count on my calendar when it's just a bunch of invitee responses, and clearing them is not only annoying, but often problematic when they won't clear. I have a lot of recurring, large meetings that I manage and it drives me crazy to constantly have to clear the responses.

Please, please, please add a way to disable the counts, Apple! You'd be my hero.

This simple trick cleared out the responses without having to delete the meeting. ✅ Just turn off calendars for the Exchange account, then go to the calendar t insure it is cleared, and then go back into settings and turn the Calendar back on for Exchange. The meetings will come back but not the unwanted responses.

Apple is not here on this user-to-user technical support forum. You'll have to tell them at this link: link: http://www.apple.com/feedback

Deleting your exchange calendar and then restoring it is not a good workaround if your calendar has data that goes back 20 years, as mine does, and takes quite some time to restore.

Based on the comments that this only relates to recurring events, and clears once the date (or first date) passes, I turned off the automatic date/time setting function, set my date ahead a few years, swiped up to close calendar, and when I went back in everything was cleared. Of course I also had to do the same thing on my iPad and iPad mini in addition to my iPhone.

This is just ridiculous.

If you go to calendar then click Calendars on the bottom, then scroll down and turn on Show Declined Events. Then you will be able to just click on inbox and just click OK under the declined response.

Beantownflyer's post on manually adjusting the date worked, but I could not agree more with him.... how ridiculous that you need to farkle around with the date/time to get this to clear.