Google Calendar Bug Reported To Create Incorrect Occasions on Android, iOS Units

Google Calendar customers have reportedly skilled a bug that’s inflicting the appliance 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 properly, who took to the social media platform to share screenshots of their Calendar apps full of random occasions.

In keeping with 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 observe again to any precise occasion. The occasions created incorrectly principally appear to be all-day occasions which have been attributable to a bug within the Gmail cellular software on some Android and iOS units. Nevertheless, it is not clear what explicit bug has prompted 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 full of all-day occasions that don’t result in any actual occasion regarding the consumer.

Google Calendar customers who want to keep away from muddle of their Google Calendar might evade the bug by heading to Settings > Occasions > Flip Off ‘Routinely add occasions from Gmail to my calendar​’​. Nevertheless, doing so will cease Google Calendar’s capacity 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 provided a treatment to the bug that has been reported.

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