Google Calendar for Smartphones

Google Calendar  is great for keeping track of appointments, birthdays, recurring events, and more. You can have multiple calendars, like one for your personal life, another for work, a third for your softball team, and more. You can share calendars with family or co-workers and import public calendars, like your favorite sports team’s schedule.

Adding an event

Items on your calendar are events. An event can be all-day or start and end at specified times. You can add a location, and Google Assistant will check traffic for you and remind you when it is time to leave. You can add details, like reservation information, to events. You can make any event recurring by week, month, or year. You can also add additional participants to an event by adding their email addresses to the event. To create an event:

• Tap Add (plus sign), then Event. Or,
• Tap an empty time slot in Day View.

You can decide how much information you want to add to the event. All you need is a day and time to save the event, and it will show on your calendar as (No title).

You can add location, participants (and invite the participants via email), change the color of the event, and even add an attachment.

Events from Gmail

When you get an email about an event like a flight, concert, or restaurant reservation, it’s automatically added to your calendar. If you don’t want events from Gmail on your calendar, you can delete a single event, or change your settings so that events aren’t added automatically.

Editing an event

You can change an event if the time or location is changed, or if you want to add some information.

1. Tap on the event you want to change.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Make your changes.
4. Tap Save to commit your changes. Tap X to cancel and keep the event as it was.

If you are in Day, 3-day, or Week view, you can touch and hold an event and then drag it to a new time slot.

Deleting a single event

1. Tap on the event you want to delete.
2. In the top right, tap Menu  and then Delete.
3. In the warning pop-up, tap Delete.

Preventing Gmail from adding events based on email

When you turn off the setting to add events from Gmail, all past events added from Gmail will be removed from your calendar. Only events in the future will be added if you turn this setting back on.

1. In the top left, tap Menu  and then Settings .
2. Tap Events from Gmail.
3. Switch off Show events from Gmail.