Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
TL;DR Google has finally added multiple calendar support to Gemini.
You can ask about existing events and create new ones on your secondary calendars. This is great for anyone with work, school, or family calendars.
You can also change your default calendar to create events on, but the settings is hidden.
It’s been nearly two years since Google released the Gemini app for Android and enabled users to switch from Assistant to Gemini despite a bunch of limitations and missing features. One of those was the lack of multiple calendar support. Without it, you couldn’t ask about events from secondary calendars, such as work, school, or family calendars, or create new ones there. It was silly, and people complained about this repeatedly (1, 2, 3) to deaf ears.
Now, two years later, Google has finally fixed this stupid oversight and added back support for multiple calendars to Gemini, so any employee, family member, or student can access their full schedule again — with a few caveats, though.
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We don’t know when the change occurred exactly, but at some point in January, Google’s support page for Gemini calendar added these two sentences: You can also ask Gemini to create and manage events on your secondary and shared calendars in Google Calendar.
Gemini creates events on your default calendar unless you specify a different calendar. However, the feature isn’t as straightforward as you think, and setting up another default calendar is counterintuitive since it requires digging into the old Assistant settings. I spent a few days trying to understand how this works because I’m that one person with three important calendars who’s been really annoyed by Gemini’s restriction. Here’s what you should know.
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