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Travel reservation emails automatically creating unwanted calendar events

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acousticbiker

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This past week, I started seeing events on my iPhone calendar which I didn’t create. They are all-day events on my Gmail calendar based on email confirmations of travel reservations and they don’t show up on Google Calendar on the web.
  • “Events from Gmail” is turned off in Google Calendar
  • I use TripIt but only the email forward function (not the one that automatically creates calendar events from emails)
  • I access Gmail on Mac Outlook and have turned off the web Outlook setting for automatic calendar events (even though I don’t have Gmail linked to my web Outlook)
Any other ideas on what’s creating these events and how I can turn them off?
 
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StoneJack said:
Delete gmail calendar
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That may fix it, but I want to manage Gmail on my desktop Outlook.

One update is that these events are actually showing up in my Google Calendar too, with a note that says the event was added by Outlook - confusing because:
  • Desktop Outlook, where I have Gmail, is just a client and doesn’t have any settings for events from email
  • I’ve turned off events from email in web Outlook for my exchange account (which doesn’t have any link to my Gmail account anyway)
  • I set up an outlook.com account in the past but I don’t use it and don’t remember any way it is linked to my Gmail account
 
BrianBaughn said:
If they're not appearing in the web version of Google Calendar…what "Group" are they under on your iPad?
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I actually now notice (and indicated in my reply above) that it is showing up in the web version of Google Calendar and that it includes in the notes section that it was added by Outlook
 
Just to clarify your situation:

  1. The calendar in question is hosted by Google.
  2. On your Mac you're accessing the Google Calendar with Outlook.
  3. You have not added the Google Calendar to your online Exchange calendar.
  4. The web version of your Exchange calendar is set to NOT create events from emails.
  5. You use TripIt but manually send event emails to those calendars.
  6. “Events from Gmail” is turned OFF at the Google Calendar web interface.
  7. Notes on the events in question say the event was added by Outlook (the macOS app, presumably).
  8. As far as you can tell the Outlook app doesn't have a setting to create events from email.
  9. You set up an outlook.com account in the past but don’t use it and don’t remember any way it is linked to the Gmail account.
The first thing you need to confirm is your memory about #9. That could easily be the culprit if you're wrong.

Beyond that…what version of Outlook on the Mac and what version of macOS are currently running?

You don't have the Outlook app on your iPhone, do you?
 
BrianBaughn said:
Just to clarify your situation:

  1. The calendar in question is hosted by Google.
  2. On your Mac you're accessing the Google Calendar with Outlook.
  3. You have not added the Google Calendar to your online Exchange calendar.
  4. The web version of your Exchange calendar is set to NOT create events from emails.
  5. You use TripIt but manually send event emails to those calendars.
  6. “Events from Gmail” is turned OFF at the Google Calendar web interface.
  7. Notes on the events in question say the event was added by Outlook (the macOS app, presumably).
  8. As far as you can tell the Outlook app doesn't have a setting to create events from email.
  9. You set up an outlook.com account in the past but don’t use it and don’t remember any way it is linked to the Gmail account.
The first thing you need to confirm is your memory about #9. That could easily be the culprit if you're wrong.

Beyond that…what version of Outlook on the Mac and what version of macOS are currently running?

You don't have the Outlook app on your iPhone, do you?
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I looked back and don’t think I set up an outlook.com account (much less linked it to Gmail, which I’m not even sure is possible).

I’m running the latest version of Mac Outlook (16.63) and macOS 12.5. And, no, I don’t have the Outlook app on my iPhone (I’ve tried it in the past but that was a long time ago).

One other thing to note is I recently got an email (I believe it was to my exchange account but can’t find it now) that said Outlook will now create calendar events from emails and sure enough that’s when I started getting the calendar events
 
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For my Office 365 Exchange email account the settings look like this:

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Check to see what third-party services are allowed to connect to you Google account at your Google web by going to:

"Manage your Google Account">Data & Privacy>Third-party apps with account access
 
BrianBaughn said:
Check to see what third-party services are allowed to connect to you Google account at your Google web by going to:

"Manage your Google Account">Data & Privacy>Third-party apps with account access
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Microsoft shows up under both the 3rd party apps section and the Signing in with Google section. I remember I had to give Mac Outlook access to my Google account to add Gmail to the desktop Outlook app and I would want to maintain that - do you know whether that is the Microsoft listed under 3rd party app or Signing in with Google?
 
If you add the Google account to Outlook for macOS it shows up as "Microsoft apps & services".

The two you see are the same thing, I think, if they both have the same name and there's no other listing with MS (such as "Microsoft Power Automate"…which is a service that actually can create events in Google calendar from emails).

I'm wondering if you were to start over with granting access if that would cut out the events from email issue that's happening somewhere…perhaps somewhere else that you haven't remembered. That is, remove the account from Outlook, "Remove Access" at Google, and then re-add the account in Outlook. I think that would cut off everything but Outlook on your Mac.

Looking at this I've noticed that iOS is not even mentioned in the list of third-party apps even though the account is on my iPhone. Those show up in the "Your Devices" section…so give that a look, also.
 
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