This feels like a real step forward, especially for people who use their agenda intensively. You have to enter appointments less precisely and less technically, while the display is at the same time clearer and more modern.
Innovations in the design
Apple has adjusted the design of the Calendar app. You will see most of the innovation in the detailed view of appointments. This has been redesigned as a map with a calmer layout, while the screens for creating and editing appointments are more logically structured and have clearer symbols.
Apple previously adjusted the display of appointments and activities. You can find all your appointments in the different views of Agenda, such as day, week, month and year view.
The list view is also available, but must be activated in a special way. With the list view it is possible to view all your appointments chronologically, with the appointments that take place first being at the top, followed by the other appointments and activities. After installing iOS 27, Apple forces this view. You can read exactly how this works in the featured article below.
Add appointments in plain language
The biggest innovation is that from now on you can simply describe an appointment as you would say it or type it in a message. For example, you write something like “Lunch with Eva on Saturday at 12:30 PM in Eindhoven” and Agenda automatically extracts the title, date, time, location and possible people.
- Open the Calendar app
- Tap or click the plus button
- Give activities a title or description
- Choose suggestions if necessary
- Add the appointment
In practice, Apple calls this a form of smart input, where the app shows suggestions as you type and recognizes items that you can confirm with one tap. This makes it faster to save an appointment, but also easier to change an existing appointment without having to enter everything manually again. This feature is made possible with Apple Intelligence.
Does this option not work? Then you can enable it via Institutions for iPhone or iPad ▸ Apps ▸ Agenda ▸ enable the option ‘Recognize activity details‘ in. On a Mac, this can be done via Calendar ▸ Menu bar ▸ Calendar ▸ Settings ▸ Advanced ▸ Recognize activity details.
Extra large widget
Along with software updates 27, Apple offers a wide range of new major widgets. The extra large Calendar widget is mainly intended to show much more information at a glance than the current formats. Apple gives Calendar two variants in this new XL format: Next and List, where you see, for example, a compact list of upcoming appointments or a block with your next meetings and events.
That widget takes up a lot of screen space, but on the other hand you get your planning almost like a mini agenda directly on your home screen. This is especially useful if you often check appointments without opening the app itself.
More for Siri and Apple Intelligence
Finally, Apple has linked the Calendar app to a series of broader Apple Intelligence functions, which is immediately reflected in the addition of appointments in natural language. But Siri can also create an event for you based on a natural sentence, while Agenda helps you recognize people, times and locations while typing.
In addition, Visual Intelligence can read information from a flyer, screenshot or schedule and immediately make an appointment. This is especially useful for posters, schedule overviews and separate agendas, because you no longer have to copy that information manually. Some features require Siri AI.