With Calendars you can create events by simply typing a descriptive title in plain English. The app will recognize the input and schedule an event for you. The feature is currently available for English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
To turn Natural Language Input off, follow these steps:
- Launch the Calendars application.
- Go to Settings within the app.
- Select Edit Options.
- Switch off the Natural Language Input toggle.
To go to Calendars Settings on your iPhone, tap on the three horizontal lines button.
Here are some examples of the titles Calendars will understand:
- Meeting 7 am
- Meeting at 7 pm
- Meeting at 23:45
- Meeting at four
- Meeting at 9 am
PDT - Meeting today with Robert
- Go GYM at nine till eleven
- Go GYM at nine for 5 hours
- Meeting at nine during 5 hours
- Lunch at noon for 30 minutes
- Short conversation in one hour
- Event in 5 days
- Meeting with T
om - Meeting with T
om - Meeting with T
om - Movie 2/12
- BDay 13
January - Event 1st of January 2020
- Event 2nd of Aug 2020
- Go GYM 03/21/2020
- Go GYM 2.05.2020 19:00
- Meeting on Mon
- Meeting next Friday
- Vacation starts 10 Jan ends 17 Jan
- Vacation starts 10 January 2020 ends 17 January
- Lunch tomorrow at Starbucks at 8 am
- Grocery shopping at Wegman's Thursday at 5 pm
- Lunch at 123 Main St. at 5 pm
- Paying bills day on 3rd Tuesday of each month
- Paying bills day repeat on the 3rd Tuesday of each month
- Paying bills every last
Friday - Paying bills day today Repeat every month
- Paying bills day today repeat every 2 days
- Paying bills day today repeat every 3 weeks
- Piano lessons on Fridays at 3 am
- Piano lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays and Mondays at 6 pm
- Piano lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5-6 pm from 1/21 to 2/23
- Katine's BDay 13
January - Yoga
training - Soccer practice every Tue at 6
- Sam's birthday every year on 5/16
- Lunch every Tuesday until 2/5
- Meeting with John tomorrow every day until 12.10.2020
- Sam's birthday
June - Lunch every day until next
Friday - Lunch every day for 2 weeks
- Tennis on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays at 10
- Tennis every wed and
Fri - Piano lesson today at 5-7:30 pm
- Meeting for 2 hours 4 pm next Friday
- Lexus test drive from 5 PM to 7 PM on Friday
- Work 19:00-19:30
- Holiday from 11
October - Holiday from 5/5 till 5/10
- Meet John at 18:00 15th
September - 12/09 Meet John at Mall from 9:30 to 12:00
- Assign an event to a calendar by typing #NameOfTheCalendar in the event title
Special Natural Language Input tricks
- To quickly select the calendar while creating an event, add '/' to the event title and try to type the calendar's name.
- The Natural Language Input feature recognizes events' titles and schedules all events for you. If you do not want to add this option, you can turn Natural Language Input off or just add quotation marks ("), and after that, type the event title. Natural Language Input will not be applied to these events.
- If you would like to create an event with a custom time (for example, '2:52pm'), you can simply type the event title containing ' at 2.52 pm'.
- You can even indicate the Time Zone that should be used for this event. For this, simply add, for example, 'in 5 GMT-3'.