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When you are using a POP3 or IMAP account, the automatic processing of meeting requests can be controlled via your Tracking options.

Tentative appointments will still have a reminder enabled.

There is no option to hide all Tentative appointments in the Calendar apps on iOS, Android, Windows 10 and Outlook on the Web.

People who are looking at your availability will still see all your Tentative appointments.

Press OK until all dialogs are closed and you are back in your Calendar.

Hide all Tentative appointments on your Calendar.

Optionally Filter the meetings accepted as tentative as well:.

Hide automatically added Tentative appointments on your Calendar. You probably only want to filter out the first, but you can do both as well. Left: Automatically accepted as Tentative. These will show as normal appointments with diagonal stripes in front of the meeting details.

Meeting invitations you have responded to as Tentative yourself.

These will show as transparent appointments with diagonal stripes in front of the meeting details.

Meeting invitations that you haven’t responded to and were automatically added to your Calendar as Tentative.

There are actually 2 different type of Tentative appointments you can filter on

If your Calendar is filled with Tentative appointments, you could clear it up by hiding the Tentative appointments. Hide Tentative appointments from your Calendar View

You can however disable this behavior when you are using a POP3 or IMAP account. Unfortunately, to reliably process the requests at server level, you can’t disable this behavior for Exchange accounts but you can hide them from your Calendar view instead. While this is a good default setting for most, for others this indeed might be Outlook trying to be too smart. This is to prevent others from booking the same time-slot before you have processed an earlier sent meeting request.

This makes my Calendar look unnecessarily busy and also often confuses others who check my schedule.Ĭan I somehow prevent meetings from automatically being added as Tentative to my Calendar?īy default, Outlook will indeed automatically process your meeting requests so these time-slots are reserved on your Calendar as Tentative. However, Outlook automatically accepts these meeting requests as “Tentative” and adds them to my calendar. I receive quite a lot of meeting invitations in my line of work but luckily I don’t have to attend all of them.