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TL;DR Google Calendar will now always show any secondary calendars you own in your Settings list.
The change builds on last year’s move to give every secondary calendar a dedicated owner.
The rollout starts today for personal accounts and on January 27 for Workspace users.
It’s pretty easy to create a secondary calendar in Google Calendar and then completely forget about it, but Google is stepping in to tidy things up. The company is rolling out a change that ensures any secondary calendars you own will always appear in your calendar list in Settings, making them easier to find and manage.
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Detailed in a Google Workspace Update, this move builds on a change Google introduced late last year, when it moved secondary calendars to a dedicated ownership model. Under that system, every secondary calendar has a single owner who’s responsible for its settings, permissions, and lifecycle. The new update closes a practical gap in that setup by ensuring ownership is visible.
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Google says owners will still have the option to pin these calendars to their main calendar view if they want, or keep them tucked away in Settings. From there, you can manage sharing, transfer ownership to someone else, or delete the calendar entirely for all subscribers. The company also recommends limiting ownership to no more than 100 calendars per user. For accounts that exceed that number, calendars will be added gradually to avoid performance issues.
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