Google Calendar Bug Reported To Create Incorrect Events on Android, iOS Devices

Google Calendar customers have reportedly skilled a bug that’s inflicting the appliance to create random occasions primarily based on emails acquired within the person’s Gmail inbox. Several customers appear to have reported the problem on the Google Calendar app for Android and iOS cellular units. The bug has been reported by numerous customers on Twitter as nicely, who took to the social media platform to share screenshots of their Calendar apps stuffed with random occasions.

According to a report by 9to5Google, Google Calendar has been displaying random created occasions which were triggered by messages of their Gmail inbox that don’t essentially monitor again to any precise occasion. The occasions created incorrectly largely appear to be all-day occasions which have been brought on by a bug within the Gmail cellular utility on some Android and iOS units. However, it is not clear what specific bug has induced this to occur, added the report.

Several customers had been seen taking to Twitter to put up screenshots of their Google Calendar apps stuffed with all-day occasions that don’t result in any actual occasion regarding the person.

Google Calendar customers who want to keep away from muddle of their Google Calendar could evade the bug by heading to Settings > Events > Turn Off ‘Automatically add occasions from Gmail to my calendar​’​. However, doing so will cease Google Calendar’s capability to trace precise occasions out of your Gmail inbox and supply customers with notifications for a similar as a reminder.

It is vital to notice that Google hasn’t formally acknowledged, addressed, or provided a treatment to the bug that has been reported.

Last yr, the Alphabet-owned search large had launched a ‘Focus time’ entries characteristic that allowed customers to set a timeslot by which all assembly requests will likely be robotically declined.