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Google Calendar\u2019s new \u201cknown senders\u201d option<\/a> is supposed to make it easier to keep spam from clogging up your schedule. Toggling on the setting prevents invites from people you don\u2019t know from automatically appearing in your Calendar. This way, Google Calendar will only automatically add invites from people in your contacts list, anyone you\u2019ve interacted with through Workspace, and users in your company or organization.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re familiar with Google Calendar, you\u2019ll know that Google automatically adds events to your schedule based on the emailed invites you receive. Letting the floodgates open by allowing Google Calendar to add events received by \u201ceveryone\u201d could mean having a calendar infested with fake and annoying events. While there\u2019s technically a workaround<\/a> for this, Google has made it pretty inconvenient \u2014 it involves disabling automatic event adding altogether, which means you have to respond to each invite.<\/p>\n

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Google promised a fix for this all the way back in 2019<\/a>, and now the company has added this solution. You can turn on the new filter by navigating to your Google Calendar settings and choosing Events Settings<\/strong>. From here, select the Add invitations to my calendar<\/strong> <\/strong><\/em>dropdown and choose Only if the sender is known<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Google says this setting doesn\u2019t prevent you from receiving <\/em>spammy invites, however. You can keep those from appearing in your Calendar by just not accepting them. On a support page<\/a>, Google notes that choosing this setting may reveal to a sender that you don\u2019t have them in your contacts list (if that matters to you).<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the only small but helpful change Google has made to its Workspace apps as of late. Last month, Google tweaked Calendar invites<\/a> to make them easier to read and rolled out a revamp of Gmail<\/a>. In an update last year, it also addressed a loophole<\/a> that let people store spammy or abusive shared folders on other users\u2019 Drives.<\/p>\n