Apple should take Visual Intelligence one step further – with Reminders

Source: 9to5Mac

Overview

One of the core Apple Intelligence features to date has been Visual Intelligence. It started off in a rather limited capacity through Camera Control, but with iOS 26, the company expanded it to screenshots. I’ve found those capabilities very useful thus far, and I’d love 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 for shopping).
• The ability to ask ChatGPT questions about your screenshot.

I’ve loved the ability to quickly create Calendar events with Visual Intelligence, and it’s certainly 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.

Reminders integration

There’s loads of potential for Reminders in Visual Intelligence. At least personally, I’d love to have the ability to quickly screenshot something and then turn said thing into a Reminder.

• Research use‑case: Quickly take a screenshot of something you’re researching and turn it into a Reminder to revisit later—a universal bookmarking tool of sorts.
• Text conversation use‑case: Screenshot a text conversation and convert that snippet into a Reminder, which could be immensely helpful.

I’m sure such a feature would require more advanced analysis than the calendar feature does, since figuring out what someone is actually requesting a reminder for is a lot more complicated than just finding a date/time and title.

I do think this capability has a lot of potential, though. It could even work nicely with Visual Intelligence in Camera Control, where you could take a photo of something and generate a reminder from it.