Customers report Google Calendar bug creating random faux occasions

Many customers have reported that they’ve encountered a wierd subject within the Google Calendar cell app previously few days. The app appears to create random, non-existent occasions all day primarily based on the content material of customers’ Gmail messages.

As 9to5Google (who reported the information earlier immediately), varied varieties of emails, together with supply notifications, buy receipts, and newsletters, appear to seem as calendar occasions all through the day. Some Edge Employees members who use the Google calendar app expertise this subject. “It is like discovering landmines in my calendar,” complained one author (whose calendar is pictured beneath).

Google has not but responded to a request for remark.

A screenshot of the Google Calendar app in dark mode. December 23 has four all-day events titled Your Epic Games Receipt, Your UPS Package Has Been Delivered, and UPS: Get Ready for Your Package. — *Ensure you’re not late to your Epic Video games reception appointment.*

If you happen to’re having this drawback and wish it to cease, the best repair to date is to go to your Google calendar settings and switch off “Present occasions from Gmail”. It is also an excellent factor to do, generally, if you’d like keep spam invites off your calendar.