This by default doesn’t happen which is why I’ve been missing events, but if you want to automatically a meeting invite that appears in your calendar, you have to explicitly enable it. I’ve been missing a lot of meetings because I didn’t realize this. You have to do two things:
- Go to Gmail, at the upper right, and look for the Gear icon ⚙, you will see Settings > See all settings > General > Smart features and personalization so that the Calendar is allowed to talk with Gmail. The default is that this is on.
- Now go to Google Calendars and at the top find the Gear icon ⛭ > Settings > Events from Gmail > Show events automatically created by Gmail in your calendar I also click on Privacy of Gmail email events and pick Calendar default so anyone that you give permissions to can also see these events. The default is only for you, but I changed it to Shared.
For those of us with 20 (I know right!) Google accounts, you have to do this for every account to make sure the events appear. So off I am to do some mindless grunt work, but I’m glad they have this security.
Note that these are the defaults so you should only check these if you’ve messed with them. I did find that my older accounts, that it was not set, but I can’t remember if I changed it or not.
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