Apple Intelligence often gets a bad rap for not being as smart as other phones' AI feature sets or the big chatbot apps like ChatGPT or Google Gemini. But it's still capable of doing some clever things, like turning an image into a Calendar event for you.

Using either a screengrab or an image taken with Apple's Visual Intelligence feature, your iPhone can scan the text for relevant details and record it in Apple Calendar for you (sadly there isn't support for third-party calendars yet). You can edit the event if you like, but the feature will often need only a couple of taps to work most of the time.

If you want to try this yourself, I'll demonstrate the two methods of using Visual Intelligence to make Calendar events below. Just make sure you're running a Visual Intelligence-capable iPh

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