iOS 26 is a huge update for iPhone, with a Liquid Glass design and lots of new features for built-in apps like Wallet, Messages, and Music. One popular app—Apple Calendar—mostly got overlooked this year, but it did gain one key new advantage: event creation via screenshots.
Adding Calendar events is now as easy as taking a screenshot
If you’ve used iOS 26 very much, you may have noticed that it changes the default behavior for screenshots.
Rather than screenshots appearing as a floating thumbnail in the bottom-left corner, they now open a fullscreen UI by default.
You can always revert to the old behavior if you’d like.
But the main reason for this change is that Apple has upgraded screenshots with new “visual intelligence” powers on all AI-compatible iPhones.
One of those new screenshot features involves Apple’s Calendar app.
Take a screenshot of anything containing a calendar event, and iOS 26 provides a convenient new button at the bottom of the screen: ‘Add to Calendar.’
Note: this button only appears inside the default fullscreen UI. So if you’ve switched back to the thumbnail view, you’ll need to first tap the thumbnail to see it.
How ‘Add to Calendar’ works in iOS 26
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