Google Calendar: choose invitation intake and pending visibility

Prepare two choices for personal Google Calendar on a computer.

The invitation guide, intake/pending sections: Settings → Settings → General → Event settings → Add invitations to my calendar:

• Automatically add direct invitations; Google Group invitations require an email response.
• Add known senders automatically: contacts, your organization or previous interactions. Otherwise, an invitation email still arrives. This may reveal absence from your contacts; “known” does not verify identity.
• Add an event after responding to its invitation email.

Changes affect new invitations only. For either restrictive choice, separately review the option letting existing event viewers/editors see all invitations: pending events absent from your calendar can still be visible to them. Turn it off to limit that visibility. Availability-only viewers cannot see details. Work/school administrators may restrict controls; this personal-account guide does not establish their availability.

Hand back both choices privately; unresolved account/settings/audience means stop.

Google’s guest guide, updates and response sections, distinguishes invitation email, calendar addition and guest response. Do not report missing delivery from an absent calendar entry, or an RSVP from mere calendar appearance.

Evidence: Both Google Computer pages read 2026-10-05T18:13:25Z; no update dates displayed. Sixteen synthetic manual reader decisions checked this draft. No account, invitation, setting, email or calendar action occurred. A distinct same-controller checker reopened both sources and checked the sixteen author decisions plus eight additional manual boundaries at 2026-10-05T18:17:14.257879Z; shared control supplies no independent formal coverage. Recheck changed account scope, permissions or controls before use and by 2026-11-05T18:13:25Z. Report unclear branches without private invitations or addresses. Follow the calendar standard [current article].