Google Calendar: Get Organized

Description of App

Get the official Google Calendar app for your iPhone to save time and make the most of every day.
● A new Schedule View – See your schedule at a glance with photos and maps of the places you're going to.
● Events from Gmail – Flights, hotel bookings, concerts, restaurant reservations and more are added to your calendar automatically.
● Assistance with filling in your calendar – You can quickly create events with smart suggestions for event titles, places and people.
● Different ways of viewing your calendar – Quickly switch between viewing a single day to getting an overview of multiple days at once.
● All of your calendars in one convenient place – Google Calendar works with all calendars on your phone, including Exchange and iCloud.

Version

1.0.2

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

8.2

Accessibility Comments

This appears to be fully accessible with VoiceOver and very easy to use. If it continues like this, it might well replace the native calendar as my calendar of choice for iOS.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-calendar/id909319292?mt=8

Developer's Website

https://support.google.com/calendar/

Recommendations

3 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by KE7ZUM 2 years 2 months ago

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Comments

I like the calendar app

I like the calendar app except there are a few issues with it. I go over them here

Hope that somewhat helps. Feel free to share this with the google access team.

So, what are the issues?

It would be nice if you simply told us here what problems there are with this app, rather than try to drive traffic to your own site.

It's in the show notes but to

It's in the show notes but to put in a nut shell,

The view refreshes when trying to flick left and right
the text does not echo when adding an event
the settings screen when trying to add a calendar, headings disappear after you go back
There is no way to switch to a calendar like view like where the days are looking like a calendar. they seem like in a week view to me.

I think there were some other issues but go to my show notes to find out what they are as I can't remember them off the top of my head. The app has potential but it's those things that make me not want to use the app. I might continue though we'll see what happens in the long run.

Other accessibility issues

Hi there,
I started using Google calendar yesterday, simply because I needed something easy to share with some co-workers.
I have two main issues, and wonder if there is a cure for them.
1, the schedule view does not let you scroll through events. Instead, it seems to scroll week by week and you have to keep swiping until you find your next event, which is rather time consuming.
2, when adding an event, the date selector does not behave as you would expect. You can't simply double tap and hold and then do a big swipe up and let it scroll by itself. All you can do is swipe day by day. Imagine if your event is scheduled two months away from now.
So I think I might give it up. Anything else easy to share as a calendar?
Best,

Alerts

When using Google calendar on an iPhone, I can figure out how to get notifications for existing events but is there any way to get a notification when somebody invites you to a meeting? I did not get an email notification. The stock calendar in iOS has an invitations tab. Does Google calendar have anything similar?

accessibility problems with latest version

Is anyone else experiencing trouble using the time pickers on the latest version of google calendar? you have to type in numbers now instead of swiping to select times, and the focus issues are terrible. this started happening to me today.