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Your iPhone Will Automatically Add Events to Your Calendar in iOS 10

Jul 13, 2016 12:00 PM
Sep 18, 2017 05:43 PM
Email notification about a DMV appointment.

iOS 10's Calendar app comes with a new Found Events feature, which scans Mail and Messages on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch for events and lets you add them to your calendar. This one is easy to set up, because it's automatically enabled and on all the time, so you don't have to do anything.

Whenever you get a new message with a date, time, and/or place, there will be a note up top asking you to add it. After adding, you can fill in some additional details if necessary, save, then go back to your messages. The popup only seems to show up on new messages, so if it's an old one, you can still touch and hold on the time/date in the message to add the event to the Calendar.

Email confirmation of a dental appointment scheduled for July 27, 2016.
Appointment details for a dentist appointment on July 27, 2019 at 2:00 PM.
Email confirmation of a dental appointment scheduled for July 27, 2016.
Appointment details for a dentist appointment on July 27, 2019 at 2:00 PM.

If you want to turn this feature off, go into the Settings app and scroll down to Calendar. At the bottom is a toggle for "Events Found in Apps."

Toggle switch for 'Events Found in Apps' settings with a description about deleting unconfirmed event suggestions.

Cover photo and screenshots by Justin Meyers/Gadget Hacks

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