Google Calendar has released a brand new replace for a problem that it promised to repair three years in the past. The “known senders” characteristic will lastly allow you to block invites from individuals you do not know that may successfully spam up your calendar. With the “Only if the sender is known” toggle enabled beneath “Event settings,” it’s going to robotically add invitations solely from individuals in your contacts listing, individuals you’ve got interacted with, or customers on the identical area. 

Normally, Google Calendar robotically provides occasions once you obtain emailed invitations, regardless of who sends them. The solely method to stop this till now was to disable automated occasion including utterly, forcing you to manually take care of every invite. 

Now, you may have the automated invites from of us you understand whereas chopping off spam occasions like “Crypto meetup 9PM tonight” despatched by some rando. Simply navigate to your Google Calendar settings, select “Event Settings” and select the “Add invitations to my calendar dropdown.” Then, choose the choice “Only if the sender is known.”

You’ll nonetheless obtain spammy invitations, however the brand new possibility enables you to trash them earlier than they ever see your calendar. Google notes that this may occasionally alert a sender that they are not in your contacts listing, however that appears to be the one potential draw back. It’s a small however helpful tweak, becoming a member of latest Google updates for Calendar, Gmail and different apps.