Google Calendar: User reports about randomly created fake events are increasing

December 24th, 2022 at 3:39 p.m. by Michael Miskulin – The Google calendar seems to have recently caused confusion among many users. The mobile app randomly creates all-day events based on users’ emails.

The mobile Google Calendar is apparently causing problems for users. Namely, numerous users have reported that within the last few days, a strange error has occurred in the Google Calendar mobile app. What exactly does this error do?

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Google Calendar: Events are randomly generated from emails

The Google Calendar mobile app seems to create non-existent all-day events quite randomly on its own. These events appear to be based on the content of users’ Gmail messages. The website 9to5Google reported this problem for the first time. It was found that the app stores various types of emails, such as delivery notifications, purchase receipts and newsletters, as all-day calendar events. There isn’t a clear pattern, but emails that mention specific dates seem to trigger this error. Newsletters should also be able to trigger these random events.

Google Calendar: Simple workaround

If you don’t want to be confronted with this problem with Google Calendar, you can use a simple workaround. The easiest solution to fix the problem is to turn off “Show events from Gmail” in Google Calendar settings.

Those: 9to5Google