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

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

In response to a report by 9to5Google, Google Calendar has been displaying randomly created occasions which have been triggered by messages of their Gmail inbox that don’t essentially observe again to any precise occasion. The occasions created incorrectly principally appear to be all-day occasions which have been brought on by a bug within the Gmail cellular software on some Android and iOS units. Nonetheless, it is not clear what specific bug has brought on this to occur, added the report.

A number of customers have 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 in regards to the consumer.

Google Calendar customers who want to keep away from litter of their Google Calendar could evade the bug by heading to Settings > Occasions > Flip Off ‘Mechanically add occasions from Gmail to my calendar”, Nonetheless, 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 very important be aware that Google hasn’t formally acknowledged, addressed, or supplied a treatment to the bug that has been reported.

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