Google quietly released its first native Calendar app for Apple Watch today, marking the tech giant's first new smartwatch offering in over five years and bringing one of its most popular productivity tools to Apple's wearable platform.
The app, available through version 25.24.1 of Google Calendar, displays upcoming events and Google Tasks in a simplified list format directly on users' wrists. This development ends a long-standing gap for Apple Watch users who previously could only access Google Calendar events through Apple's native calendar app via account syncing.
The Google Calendar watch app presents a week's worth of schedule information as color-coded cards, each displaying the scheduled time, event title, and location1. Tapping an item reveals additional details, though users cannot create or edit events from the watch itself12.
"You're prompted to 'Open Calendar on your phone to view more,'" reports 9to5Google3. The design mirrors Google's approach on Wear OS devices, functioning as "more of a glanceable utility than a full-featured productivity tool," according to PhoneArena4.
Google introduced two complications compatible with watchOS faces and the Smart Stack feature1. The "What's next" complication, available in circular and rectangular formats, displays upcoming appointments and opens directly to event details when tapped1. A second complication shows today's date in a small circular format1.
This marks only the fourth Google service available on Apple Watch, joining Google Maps, YouTube Music, and Google Keep1. Google hasn't brought new services to the platform since 2020, when YouTube Music arrived1.
The company's cautious approach to Apple Watch support has left many of its popular services, including Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Home, absent from the platform despite their availability on competing Wear OS devices1.
Before today's release, Apple Watch users could access Google Calendar events only by syncing their Google accounts through iPhone settings and using Apple's native Calendar app12. This method required connecting Google accounts to the iPhone's Mail settings and enabling calendar synchronization1.
The launch comes as Google continues expanding its ecosystem across competing platforms, though whether this signals renewed interest in Apple Watch development or represents an isolated update remains unclear3.
