Everything new in Calendar and Reminders in iOS 27

The Calendar and Reminders apps look pretty much the same as they did in iOS 26, but there are some useful new Apple Intelligence features that make both apps more intuitive.

Natural language for the calendar

‌Apple Intelligence‌ in Calendar lets you add events by describing them in natural language. It identifies people, dates, and places as you type, and you can tap to add that information.

It’s not as smooth as Fantastical, but it’s better than before. You can’t just open the Calendar app and type “meet Eric at 2 p.m. on July 14” and file it correctly like you do in Fantastical, because it doesn’t have the same automatic date change.

The calendar adds an event to the selected date, and by default it is the current date. To use natural language to select another date, you can type “meet Eric at 2 p.m. on July 14,” but you must tap the July 14 suggestion at the top of the keyboard.

The Calendar app will automatically set the event to the time you type in natural language, so you don’t need to tap for it.

Natural language for reminders

In Reminders, you can now describe a reminder in natural language and it will automatically fill in the metadata you mention. It can automatically add date, time and location.

You can write a reminder like “go shopping at 6 p.m. tonight” or “send the photos to John tomorrow at 4 p.m.” and the correct times will be added to your reminder. The feature is in beta and isn’t entirely consistent, so sometimes you have to tap the suggestion below to add the correct date and time, and sometimes it does it automatically.

With natural language support, Apple removed the menu bar at the bottom of the interface to add a new reminder. Adding additional features like an image or metadata such as a flag can now be done through the “Details” interface.

Editing calendar events

The event editing interface is a little simpler to use and it’s quicker to access time adjustments. If you adjust the frequency of an event, Calendar can intelligently apply the changes to all events. Siri can also be used to edit calendar events.

Holiday Alarms

The Calendar app tracks holidays and can alert you the day before a holiday to ask if you want to change the wake-up time you set.

Both the Calendar and Reminders apps have a new extra-large widget size that takes up an entire page of the app.

Siri AI

‌Siri‌ has full access to your calendar and can add events to it with natural language requests. What you can’t do with natural language input, you can do with ‌Siri‌.

‌Siri‌ is much more capable than before, and it does a better job correctly adding events to the calendar at the desired day and time, and with settings, like repeating events.

Simply describe the event you want to create and ‌Siri‌ can make it happen. ‌Siri‌ can add events to your calendar from other apps, like Mail and Messages.

‌Siri‌ is able to search the Calendar app and reminders, so you know your schedule and what’s on your to-do list.

Visual intelligence

Visual Intelligence in iOS 27 supports adding multiple events to your calendar from a calendar at once. If you have a document with a list of dates, such as a child’s sports practice schedule, you can take a photo and add them to the Calendar app at the same time.
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h2>Reminders Grocery Lists

In ‌iOS 27‌, the Reminders app has improved sorting of grocery lists. It also supports more languages ​​than before.

Shortcuts for reminders

There are new reminders actions in the Shortcuts app, including Create Group, Create List, Create Section, Delete Groups, Delete Lists, and Delete Sections. There is also a new “Get What’s on Screen” option that can be used with Reminders.

Apple Intelligence Requirements

To use the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features in ‌iOS 27‌, you need an iPhone 15 Pro or later.