Google launches new Calendar app for iPhones

Google has launched a redesigned calendar app for iPhones. The tech giant had already launched this app for Android platform a couple of months back.

According to a report by The Verge, the main features Google touts in its redesigned calendar are events, assists, and schedule view. Events can automatically take e-mails from your Gmail account and turn them into calendar items.

If you have an e-mail where you're making plans for dinner at 7:30 pm on a particular day and location, Google Calendar can automatically add it for you.

Apart from it, much like auto-fill, you'll get suggestions for places, contacts and so forth as you make entries to your calendar.

The "schedule view" option is quite simple - Google Calendar just shows everything you have on your calendar in a timeline, and it uses Material Design to present attractive cards that give you some context around your upcoming events.

For example, if one has an interview and a lunch coming up in the week, each of those items in the schedule view is visually differentiated by a big, bold graphic that tells the user what each activity is.

While Google's calendaring system has always been supported by the default iOS calendar, a host of third-party options have sprung up over the years in an attempt to work better with Google.

The new Google Calendar for iPhone is now available in the app store and works with both standard Gmail accounts and as Google Apps accounts.