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Your Google Calendar is moving to your Apple Watch, thanks to a new update spotted by 9to5Google on Monday.
The Apple Watch has few Google applications, but a new Google Calendar update, version 25.24.1, is bringing another one to Apple’s smartwatch.
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Google Calendar is one of four Google-owned apps available through Apple Watch, along with Google Keep, Google Maps, and YouTube Music.
The application displays a week’s worth of events and Google Tasks in a list view, with each event or task getting a color-coded card. Users can see the date, time, and event through this view, and not much else. This is in contrast to Apple’s native calendar app, which provides views of both week and month events.
However, according to 9to5Google, users won’t be able to create new events or set reminders from the Apple Watch app.
New complications — that is, the app information displayed on the Apple Watch’s face — include “What’s next” and “Today’s date,” easily available to view. The former displays as a circle or rectangle and includes the next event on the calendar. It’s also available as a Smart Stack widget. The latter displays the day and date.
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The functionalities available with Google Calendar’s emergence on the Apple Watch are fairly simple. When a user taps into an event, Google Calendar prompts them to view more on their phone. I see this as a helpful Smart Stack widget addition for people who want to view their daily or weekly calendars quickly.
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