Google Calendar

The Gemini Extension for Google Calendar is starting to roll out for some accounts on Android and the web client.

At the moment, birthdays that appear in Google Calendar are based on Google Contacts information, but manual creation is now coming.

In addition to Keep and Tasks, Google announced a Calendar Gemini Extension earlier this year, and we now have more details about what it can do.

Google Calendar makes it easy to keep track of appointments and key dates, but sometimes you just don’t need to see information that’s added by default, like holidays. Soon, you may have more choice in the matter.

As I said in 2022, Google Calendar is my favorite first-party app for Android tablets and foldables. Following an update detailed at I/O 2024, it retains that top spot for me. 

With last year’s big Google Tasks Assistant migration, Google Keep was excluded from the unified experience. That’s changing, with Google Keep reminders soon appearing in Google Tasks. 

An update to Google Calendar on Android is rolling out, which makes it significantly easier to scroll through months.

Google Calendar “appointment slots” have long allowed education and enterprise users to create and reserve specified time slots. Google is now removing that capability and replacing it with “appointment schedules.”

Following reminders last week, Gemini on Android can now access your Google Calendar events, as well as create new ones via voice command.

Google has updated its Calendar app on the iPhone and iPad with a trio of convenient lockscreen widgets. 

For many, Google Calendar is an essential app for keeping track of events and ongoing tasks, but the app currently makes it a little more complicated than it needs to be to create a task. Soon, though, that’s set to change in the Android app.

Older versions of Android often continue to get app and even feature updates for years to come, but eventually, things must come to an end. Soon, it seems, Google will be dropping support for its Calendar and Chrome apps on some older versions of Android.

For the past several years, Google Tasks has been restricted to a side panel in Gmail, Drive, and other Workspace sites. Google Calendar on the web is now adding a fullscreen Tasks interface.

The Nothing Phone 2 is a great smartphone with some neat but not very useful lights on the back. As Android 14 testing is underway, though, the Nothing Phone 2 is adding Google Calendar integration to its “Glyph” interface.

Back in November, we reported that Google was working on Gmail and Calendar apps for Wear OS. They’re now available, and I’m finding that triaging email from your wrist is weirdly handy. 

Following Gmail last week, Google Calendar for Wear OS is now available to download on the Play Store.

Google Calendar is getting the ability to share events via links to match the ubiquity of video meeting links in recent years.