Google Calendar is one of, if not the, most used digital calendars in the world, competing alongside Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar and Apple Calendar. It undergoes constant small tweaks and updates, such as its recent enhancement that makes iteasier to switch between creating an event or a taskon Android. In addition to its excellent integration among the entire suite of Google services, there’s little sense in recommending any other app forcreating an appointment calendar. Continuing its trend of tiny tweaks, Google just added a small quality-of-life enhancement that will make it easier to schedule events in the far future on Calendar for Android.
Google Calendar update makes it easy to switch between events and tasks
Want to turn your new event into a task or the other way around? Now you can
On X, former Google extraordinaire for Android PoliceManuel Vonaunoticed that, when he went to use Google Calendar in the agenda view on his Android smartphone, chips had been added to make monthly navigation easier. They’re located between the monthly calendar with dates and the listed agenda view. It doesn’t seem like there is a limit to how far ahead you can scroll, meaning you can jump years or even decades in advance pretty quickly. For Vonau, as of version 2025-07-31-624115131-release, this has been added, but he notes that it’s probably a server-side update, meaning whatever release is stored on users’ phones won’t necessarily affect whether they see the update. We can confirm that we have seen it on our end on app version 2025-05-29-624771919-release.
Another small and desired update for Google Calendar
This is a solid change for Google Calendar that won’t necessarily move the needle in anyone’s direction, but it fixes a small annoyance that we’ve frequently had when trying to schedule things out months in advance. It used to be that users needed to swipe left or right one month at a time to jump ahead or backwards in this mini-calendar view, which wastedvaluableseconds. Regardless, it’s welcomed in the grand scheme of Calendar updates and makes iteasier to schedule thingsfor the future. Realistically, that’s the ultimate goal of the app: to make it as simple as possible to fill out your calendar and replace physical agendas.
There are so many ways to make your Google Calendar experience your very own, likecreating a custom view in the appto match your desired workflow. If you’ve been using Google Calendar for your personal agenda and Outlook Calendar for your work schedule, you know how difficult it can be to manage two calendars at once. It’s not hard toimport your Outlook Calendar into Google Calendarand make two into one. Likewise, if you want to do the opposite andimport Google into Outlook, you can do that, too.
