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According to reports, a problem in Google Calendar leads the programme to generate random events based on emails users receive in their Gmail inboxes. Several users have noticed the problem on the Google Calendar app for iOS and Android mobile devices. Twitter users who rushed to the social networking site to share screenshots of their Calendar apps jam-packed with arbitrary events also reported the glitch.
A revelation by 9to5Google claims that Google Calendar has been showing arbitrarily made events that have been started by messages in users’ Gmail inboxes but may not necessarily be related to genuine occurrences. The erroneously produced events, which on most Android and iOS devices appear to be all-day events, have been triggered by a flaw in the Gmail mobile application. The report also stated that it is unclear which specific bug caused this.
Several individuals have been seen posting screenshots of their Google Calendar apps on Twitter, which are jam-packed with all-day events that have nothing to do with the users.
Users of Google Calendar can avoid the bug by going to Settings > Events > Turn Off “Automatically add events from Gmail to my calendar” to reduce clutter in their Google Calendar. The capacity of Google Calendar to track actual events from your Gmail inbox and send users notifications for the same as a reminder will be lost if you do this, though.
It is significant to note that Google has not formally acknowledged, addressed, or provided a fix for the reported flaw.
The Alphabet-owned search engine giant added a “Focus time” entry feature last year that let users specify a period during which meeting requests would be automatically rejected.