Google Launches Google Calendar App for iPhone

Google Launches Google Calendar App for iPhone

Towards the end of last year, Google unveiled a new Calendar app for Android users. The Calendar was able to pull events from Gmail, suggest titles, people, and places to add to events based on past usage, and it had a Schedule View that offered photos and maps of calendar destinations.

At the time, Google promised to bring the app to iOS, and as of today, Google is debuting Google Calendar for the iPhone. The iOS app has all of the same features that were first available in the Android version of the app, including a clean design, the aforementioned Schedule View, and the ability to pull in events from Gmail. Google Calendar is compatible with all iPhone calendars, including Exchange and iCloud.

Google Launches Google Calendar App for iPhone

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– A new Schedule View – See your schedule at a glance with photos and maps of the places you’re going.

– Events from Gmail – Flight, hotel, concert, restaurant reservations and more are added to your calendar automatically.

– Assists to fill in your calendar – You can quickly create events with smart suggestions for event titles, places and people.

– Different ways to view your calendar – Speedily switch between viewing a single day to getting an overview of multiple days at once

– All your calendars in one, easy place – Google Calendar works with all calendars on your phone, including Exchange and iCloud.

Google Launches Google Calendar App for iPhone Finally Released

You can grab the free app today from the App Store.

a Google Calendar app for iPhone today. While it doesn’t go above and beyond a standard set of smart calendar features, it does fill in the final gap of your Google-dependent digital life.

Google’s iOS Calendar app takes its styling cues from its Android counterpart. The interface follows Google’s Material Design guidelines, opening into a simple, blocky list of your upcoming events. Each event is color-coded based on what calendar it belongs to, and events with additional information attached to them (a location, flight details, etc.) also show up in this view. An event like “Trip to New York” shows a Google Maps image or a photograph of New York as its background; something like “Dinner with Douglas” sports a background illustration of plates and cutlery. This breaks up the monotony of the listed view of your week, and highlights the different types of events you have coming up.

At the top of the app, you can also open up a month-view to select which date to jump to; individual upcoming events aren’t shown here. Or by tapping a three dot options icon in the upper right, you can also switch to a day view or three-day view of upcoming events. There you can also search your calendar for a keyword, and it’ll pull up recent and upcoming events that match. You can use Google Calendar with any and all calendars you already have in place on your iPhone.

You can add events to your calendar using the plus icon in the upper right, specifying a location and contacts that are also participating, among other options like setting alert notifications and selecting which calendar the event is for. This is much the same as you’d do on the web, but with better auto-filling for locations and people (something Google calls “assists”). It was simple and intuitive to create a calendar event for drinks with a coworker, using Google’s assist in finding my coworker’s name in my contacts, and autofilling the name of the bar we’ll be going to.

Gmail users get extra functionality here, as well: The app can create calendar events automatically from Gmail. This can be handy for hotel and plane reservations, or just saving you some time once you’ve coordinated meeting details with a client or colleague. I’ve seen Gmail and Google Calendar do this automatically on the desktop; however, in my tests using just the mobile versions of both services today, Google Calendar did not automatically add an event for dinner tonight, or an event for an upcoming evening networking event. Perhaps I didn’t use the right keywords, or it was waiting for greater mutual confirmation that these were, indeed, events that needed to be added to my calendar. Either way, integration doesn’t seem quite seamless yet.

Google Calendar for iPhone is clean, swift, and simple; however, if you already use a robust calendar app like Fantastical 2 or Tempo, it likely adds little benefit in terms of useful features. If you’ve just been using Apple’s built-in Calendar app and are a heavy Google user, though, you’ll likely be far happier with Google Calendar in your life.

Google Calendar can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

 

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