{"id":15167059,"date":"2026-06-19T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/everything-new-in-calendar-and-reminders-in-ios-27\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:10:17","slug":"everything-new-in-calendar-and-reminders-in-ios-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/everything-new-in-calendar-and-reminders-in-ios-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything New in Calendar and Reminders in iOS 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calendar and Reminders apps look about the same as they did in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-26\/\">iOS 26<\/a>, but there are a couple of useful new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/apple-intelligence\/\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> features that make both apps more intuitive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2024\/05\/Calendar-and-Reminders-Feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-948925\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"natural_language_for_calendar\">Natural Language for Calendar<\/h2>\n<p>\n&zwnj;Apple Intelligence&zwnj; in Calendar lets you add events by describing them in natural language. It identifies people, dates, and places while you are typing, and you can tap to add that info.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2026\/06\/ios-27-calendar-natural-language.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1053062\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not as fluid as Fantastical, but it&#8217;s better than before. You can&#8217;t just open the Calendar app and type &#8220;meeting at 2pm with Eric on July 14&#8221; and have it filed correctly as you do in Fantastical because it doesn&#8217;t have the same automatic date swapping.<\/p>\n<p>Calendar adds an event on the date that&#8217;s selected, and by default, that&#8217;s the current date. To use natural language to select another date, you can type in &#8220;meeting at 2pm with Eric on July 14,&#8221; but you need to tap on the July 14 suggestion at the top of the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Calendar app will automatically set the event to the time that you type in with natural language, so you don&#8217;t need to tap for that.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"natural_language_for_reminders\">Natural Language for Reminders<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn Reminders, you can now describe a reminder in natural language and it will autofill the metadata that you mention. It can add date, time, and location automatically.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2026\/06\/ios-27-reminders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1053063\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou can write in a reminder like &#8220;get the groceries at 6pm tonight&#8221; or &#8220;send the photos to John tomorrow at 4pm&#8221; and it will add the correct times to your reminder. The feature is in beta and it&#8217;s not entirely consistent, so sometimes you need to tap on the suggestion below to add the correct date and time, and sometimes it does it automatically.<\/p>\n<p>With natural language support, Apple removed the menu bar at the bottom of the interface for adding a new reminder. Adding extra features like an image or metadata such as a flag can now be done through the &#8220;Details&#8221; interface.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"calendar_event_editing\">Calendar Event Editing<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe event editing interface is a little simpler to use, and it&#8217;s quicker to get to time adjustments. If you adjust the frequency of an event, Calendar can intelligently apply changes to all events. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/siri\/\">Siri<\/a> can also be used for editing calendar events.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"holiday-aware_alarms\">Holiday-Aware Alarms<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe Calendar app tracks holidays, and can alert you the day before a holiday to ask if you want to change the time of the wake-up alarm that you have set.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"large_widgets\">Large Widgets<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe Calendar and Reminders apps both have a new extra-large widget size that takes up an entire app page.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"siri_ai\">Siri AI<\/h2>\n<p>\n&zwnj;Siri&zwnj; has full access to your calendar and can add events to it with natural language requests. What you can&#8217;t do with the natural language entry, you can do with &zwnj;Siri&zwnj;.<\/p>\n<p>&zwnj;Siri&zwnj; is much more capable than before, and it does a better job correctly adding events to the calendar on the day and time you intend, and with parameters, like repeating events.<\/p>\n<p>Just describe the event you want to create and &zwnj;Siri&zwnj; can get it done. &zwnj;Siri&zwnj; can add events to your calendar from other apps, like Mail and Messages.<\/p>\n<p>&zwnj;Siri&zwnj; is able to search across the Calendar app and Reminders, so it knows your schedule and what&#8217;s on your to-do list.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"visual_intelligence\">Visual Intelligence<\/h2>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/visual-intelligence\/\">Visual Intelligence<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-27\/\">iOS 27<\/a> supports adding multiple events to your calendar at one time from a schedule. If you have a document with a list of dates, like a child&#8217;s sports practice schedule, you can take a picture and add them to the Calendar app all at once.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&lt;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nh2&gt;Reminders Grocery Lists<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn &zwnj;iOS 27&zwnj;, the Reminders app has improved grocery list sorting. It also supports more languages than before.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"shortcuts_for_reminders\">Shortcuts for Reminders<\/h2>\n<p>\nThere are new Reminders actions in the Shortcuts app, including Create Group, Create List, Create Section, Delete Groups, Delete Lists, and Delete Sections. There&#8217;s also a new &#8220;Get What&#8217;s On Screen&#8221; option that can be used with Reminders.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apple_intelligence_requirements\">Apple Intelligence Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>\nTo use the &zwnj;Apple Intelligence&zwnj; features in &zwnj;iOS 27&zwnj;, you need an iPhone 15 Pro or later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Related Roundups: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-27\/\">iOS 27<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ipados-27\/\">iPadOS 27<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This article, &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-27-calendar-reminders\/\">Everything New in Calendar and Reminders in iOS 27<\/a>&quot; first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\">MacRumors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/everything-new-in-calendar-and-reminders-in-ios-27.2484193\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-27-calendar-reminders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tech \u2013 Apple \u2013 Mac Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calendar and Reminders apps look about the same as they did in iOS 26, but there are a couple of useful new Apple Intelligence features that make both apps more intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>Natural Language for Calendar<\/p>\n<p>&zwnj;Apple Intelligence&zwnj; 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