3 days ago · Tech · 0 comments

Version 1.6 marks the biggest upgrade to CalAction since its release in March, adding additional ways of ingesting and managing events in your calendar. Of course, in the meantime some bugs have been squashed and some rough edges have been fixed, but this release adds some, I think, meaningful features. Photo and text recognition CalAction can now use on-device AI through Apple Intelligence and its Foundation Model to recognize and ingest events from photos and text. Point your camera at a flyer, poster or invite and CalAction will extract the event details for you in seconds. You can now also paste text about an event ("Lunch with my parents on June 13 at 1PM") and CalAction will seamlessly create an event. This is an entirely AI-driven feature, but rest assured that none of your data is shared with third parties and will never leave your device. Easier event editing While importing events, it's now possible to edit each event so you can quickly correct the title, date, location and…

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