A new, cloud-side update is currently rolling out to Google Calendar that is going to make it much quicker to see when an event has been declined by all invitees. If you have sent out an invite and all attendees have declined it, you will now see a small exclamation point next to the event in Google Calendar. You can then tap on that event and will see a prompt to reschedule the event given it has been declined.
The idea is that at a glance, you can look at your calendar on your phone and see the decline without having to actually open up the invite on your calendar to see who has accepted and who has not.
Once you are in the invite on Google Calendar, you as an organizer have a few options as to what to do:
- Cancel the meeting: If you’re the event organizer, you’ll be able to delete the event. All other invitees will be able to remove it from their own calendar.
- Reschedule the meeting: Organizers can reschedule the event, either manually or with “Find a Time.” Guests (or organizers in domains without the “Find a time” feature available) can email other guests to suggest rescheduling.
- Dismiss an event: Until the event is moved to a new time, users can dismiss seeing the flagged indication for the meeting.
Of course, the Find a time feature is only for those in G Suite domains so if you aren’t, you won’t see that feature but should still get a prompt to reschedule.
This update is slated to roll out over the course of the next 15 days so if you don’t see it now, give it some time.
