Gmail gains an ‘Add to calendar’ button, powered by Gemini

A nifty new Gmail functionality powered by Google’s Gemini AI has arrived for Google Workspace clients. Beginning Monday, customers can add occasions to a Google Calendar immediately from an electronic mail.

Gemini will mechanically detect calendar-related content material in an electronic mail and current an “Add to calendar” button. After clicking the button, the facet panel in Gmail will open to substantiate the occasion has been added to the calendar. 

Google notes in a weblog submit that the function is just accessible in English and on the net for now. A calendar occasion created by way of the “Add to calendar” button received’t embody different company, and it additionally received’t seem for emails with already-extract occasions, like restaurant and flight reservations.

Customers on Google Workspace Enterprise and Enterprise tiers, in addition to clients with a Gemini Training, Gemini Training Premium, or Google One AI Premium plan, are eligible for the brand new function. (Customers who beforehand bought the now-deprecated Gemini Enterprise or Gemini Enterprise add-ons are additionally eligible.) Admins can allow “Add to calendar” by switching on good options and personalization from the Workspace Admin console.

“Add to calendar” is just the most recent Gemini-powered device to succeed in Gmail inboxes. In June 2024, Google added new capabilities to Gmail on the net to assist customers write emails and summarize electronic mail threads, plus ask questions and discover particular data from emails inside an inbox. A few of these capabilities got here to the Gmail apps for iOS and Android towards the top of final 12 months.