Until now, AI Apple’s possibilities were less than impressive, but one fresh function with iOS 26 appears, which is really very useful: adding things to the calendar using a screenshot.
Over the past few weeks I have tested this function in the beta version of the developer and I am pleased to inform you that it works, thanks to which this is my favorite APPLE intelligence function. It is a low strap to immaculate – and it is not as capable as the Android version – but it is a nice change in the pace to operate the AI function, which seems to really save me time.
Maybe adding things to your calendar does not sound so invigorating, but I am a person who is irate with calendars. I will probably add events to the wrong day, I put them in the wrong calendar or forget to add them at all. This is not my best quality.
The “use artificial intelligence on iOS to add things to the calendar” in visual intelligence. The ability to create calendar events based on the pictures is included in iOS 18, and now iOS 26 expands it to everything on your screen. You just take a screenshot and a prompt will appear with the words “Add to the calendar”. Tap and you will see the preview of the event that can be added to the highest level details. You can touch the editing of the event or simply create it if everything looks good and you are ready to go on with your life.
None of this would be useful if it did not work consistently; Fortunately, yes. I also saw that it hallucinals a bad day, time or location of the event – although in one case it did not take into account the difference of the time zone. Mostly, however, everything goes in my calendar as it should, and I enjoy a bit every time I save me a trip to the calendar application. The only limitation I have encountered is that he cannot create many screenshot events. In a sense, it lands on the first one who sees and suggests an event based on this. So if you want This A type of function from AI, you will need an Android phone.
Gemini’s assistant was able to add events based on what is on the screen From August 2024And it added support for the Samsung calendar in January last year. To access it, you can call a Google assistant and touch the icon with the inscription “Ask about the screen”. The twins creates a screenshot to which it references, and then simply enter or talk about adding an event to the calendar. It didn’t work for me a few months ago, but now better.
I gave the assistant Gemini on Pixel 9 Pro the task of adding many preschool events that were replaced at the end of E -Mail to my calendar, and created an event for each of them on the right day. In a separate case, he also noted that the events I added were mentioned in the eastern time and took into account this difference. In some cases, even a description of the incident based on the text on the screen was filled. AND Also Used twins in the Google calendar on my laptop, because Gemini always lurks around the corner when you literally operate any Google product, and has given the school closing list to calendar events.
This is great and everything, but is it just rebranding and some existing function? If I can say, not quite. Versions of this function already existed on both platforms, but in a much more basic form. On my iPhone 13 mini without Apple intelligence, you can touch the dates in the e-mail to add it to the calendar. But he uses the E -Mail topic line as the title of the event, which is a decent starting point, but adding five events to my calendar with the header “Preschool Lipt Newsletter” is not perfect. Android will also ask you to add an event to a screenshot calendar, but it is often wrong. It seems that artificial intelligence is better adapted to this particular task and I am ready to accept it.