A small quality of life improvement to Google Calendar adds the current date to every screen of the Android app.
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Gmail and Google Calendar are enterprise apps first and foremost. They are developed by the Google Workspace team, which is part of Google Cloud, and target business customers to compete against Microsoft.
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After rolling out Material You widgets on Android, Google Calendar is now hiding completed tasks by default.
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Google Calendar is addressing a pain point for those who organize meetings with Microsoft Outlook users, as those users will now be shown in lists of attendees.
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Following last month’s announcement, Google Calendar for Android is now rolling out a Material You redesign of its two homescreen widgets.
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Google is rolling out a new Calendar tool in the Gmail web client that makes it easier and faster to schedule meetings.
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After completing the Tasks migration and introducing tablet optimizations, Google Calendar for Android is next adding Material You widgets.
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After announcing in 2021 for Workspace Individual, Google is now bringing Calendar appointment scheduling to personal accounts while Gmail is adding interactive schedule sharing inside emails.
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Google is updating Chrome on iOS to better integrate with Calendar, Translate, and Lens, with a mini Google Maps experience being particularly interesting.
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Following Gmail last year, Google Docs is adding a new Calendar event template that lets you “collaborate with others to draft calendar invites.”
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Like email, calendaring apps have to work seamlessly with other services, and Google Calendar now offers improved interoperability, particularly with Microsoft Outlook, for enterprise users.
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In announcing the Pixel Tablet and Fold, Google emphasized that over 50 of its apps have been updated for large screens. Many of the tablet redesigns have already rolled out, with a few more coming to benefit Google Calendar, Weather, and the Play Store.
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One of the last announcements from the I/O 2023 keynote is Wear OS 4, as well as more first-party apps for the wearable platform with Gmail and Google Calendar.
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Following Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Meet, client-side encryption (CSE) for Workspace customers is now generally available (GA) in Gmail and Google Calendar.
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Back in September, Google announced that Google Tasks would replace Assistant Reminders; this migration will start next month.
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Last July, Google Calendar introduced an “Only if the sender is known” setting to block invite spam, and the company is now prominently highlighting that option.
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The Box for Google Workspace Add-on is getting a new Google Calendar integration that lets enterprise users access files from event invitations.
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A relatively widespread bug in Google Calendar is creating random events that stem from unrelated Gmail messages.
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One constant between Android Wear to Wear OS 3 is the lack of dedicated Gmail or Google Calendar applications on watches. Amid the flurry of new devices and hardware advancements, it’s increasingly worthwhile for Google to rethink its reliance on rich notifications for key actions.
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Back in April of 2016, Google updated Calendar for Android and iOS with a tool to help you find time for personal goals. Amid another upcoming removal, Google Calendar is planning to get rid of “Goals.”
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There was a little bit of truth when people – especially in the early days of mobile – said that the iPhone was the best place to use Google apps. That’s definitely not the case today on Android phones, but I think a part of that argument rings true when comparing Google web services running on Chrome for Mac/Windows versus ChromeOS. Fortunately, that’s starting to change on Chromebooks as seen with one-click Google Calendar integration.
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Back in May, Google updated the UI for Calendar’s working locations to make it less obtrusive, and is now enabling the feature by default for Workspace users.
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Touted as a way to keep your “Calendar free from spam,” Google is adding the ability to only have events appear if they come from a known sender.
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Last month, we reported how Google Calendar was laying the groundwork to replace Assistant Reminders with Tasks. More details on how the Reminders-to-Google Tasks migration in Calendar should work are now available.
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