One of the main features of Apple Intelligence to date has been Visual Intelligence. It started in a fairly limited capacity through Camera Control, but with iOS 26, the company expanded it to include screenshots. I’ve found these options very useful so far, and I’d like to see Apple take it even further.
With iOS 26, Apple Intelligence offers three new Visual Intelligence features for screenshots: the ability to quickly create Calendar events, the ability to search for similar images (useful when shopping), and the ability to ask ChatGPT questions about your screenshot.
I loved being able to quickly create Calendar events with Visual Intelligence, and it’s definitely made me a more avid user of the Calendar app on my iPhone.
In my opinion, Apple could take these capabilities a step further in iOS 27 by adding Reminders to Visual Intelligence.
Reminder integration
Visual intelligence has a lot of potential for recall. At least personally, I’d like to be able to quickly screenshot something and then transfer that thing to Reminders.
If I’m researching something, it would be nice to be able to quickly take a screenshot and turn it into a Reminder to come back to later. Think of it as a universal bookmarking tool.
Sometimes people also text me asking to remind me of things. (I’m not sure why some people pretend I’m a human reminder, but that’s beside the point.) If you could quickly take a screenshot of said text conversation and turn that snippet into a reminder, that would also be extremely helpful.
I’m sure such a feature would require a lot more advanced analysis than a calendar feature, because figuring out what someone is actually requesting a reminder for is much more complex than just finding a date/time and title.
Still, I think this ability has a lot of potential. It could even work nicely with Visual Intelligence in Camera Control, where you could take a picture of something and generate a reminder from it.
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