Google Calendar For iPhone Released With Material Design

Google has finally released its Google Calendar app for iPhone, bringing iOS in line with the Material Design version released for Android last month. The new app boasts far improved interconnectivity with Gmail, including smarter scheduling which can turn emails into new calendar events automatically. Google Calendar for iPhone also aims to streamline common settings, with auto-suggests for different fields like location, people, and title, as well as changing the overall UI so that, Google claims, it's easier to keep on top of a tricky schedule.

That's courtesy of a new Schedule View, which organizes your day into colorful blocks in a timeline. As well as resizing the boxes according to how much time each appointment will take up, they'll each include graphics of things like destination photos if you're going on a trip, or the faces of friends you're due to meet up with.

Those meetings will be made more straightforward using a new invitation system, too.

Hints of a Material Design revamp for the iOS Google Calendar app began surfacing earlier in the year, with leaks showing off a number of potential tweaks in the pipeline. Since then, of course, the Android version of the app got its update in February.

Although Google Calendar works with iOS' native calendar app, Google has been keen to move users of its services into dedicated software, such as its Gmail app. If you're a devoted Google user, then that might not be such a bad thing.

However, it'll also work with more than just Google Calendar as well. In fact, the new app supports Exchange and iCloud too. It's a free download for iPhone only from the App Store.

Update: We're hearing from some that it's tricky to locate the new app in the App Store by searching, so here's a link to it.

SOURCE Google