A friend texts you a concert date, a hotel emails a booking confirmation, a poster shows a start time. Typing all of that into Calendar by hand is the kind of small chore you keep putting off until the event has already passed. This shortcut fixes that by reading whatever is on your screen and building the event for you.

Inside the shortcut

Trigger it with “Hey Siri, Add to Calendar” and it grabs a screenshot, hands that image to an AI model, and pulls out the event details: title, start time, location, and any booking reference it can find. You get a draft event to review before anything is saved, so a wrong guess never lands in your calendar silently. When the source contains more than one event, it can create several at once, and it attaches the original screenshot to the event so you always have the source on record.

Apps you’ll need

Calendar — where the finished events land. The stock Apple app is fine.
An AI provider — OpenAI (recommended), a Google Gemini key, or an Apple Intelligence-capable device. You only need one of the three.

How to install

Tap Add Shortcut on this page to open it in the Shortcuts app.
Review the actions if you like, scroll to the bottom, and tap Add Shortcut to confirm.
Run it once from inside Shortcuts to reach the setup menu.

First-run setup

On first launch you pick an AI provider and, for OpenAI or Gemini, paste in an API key. OpenAI is the fastest and most fully featured route, and it’s what the shortcut is tuned for. Gemini runs on the gemini-2.5-flash model and is free to use through Google’s API right now, though it doesn’t do the web-search lookups in this shortcut. Apple Intelligence skips the API key entirely and uses the native “Use Model” action set to ChatGPT, but it’s the slowest of the three and needs a supported device.

If you don’t have a key yet, OpenAI’s signup is at platform.openai.com, and the author links a step-by-step YouTube walkthrough from the RoutineHub page. Keys live in the shortcut’s Manage AI/API menu, where you can switch providers, change models, or delete a stored key later.

How to use it

Looking at something with a date in it? Call Siri and say “Add to Calendar.” You can also send an image through the Share Sheet, or launch from the Shortcuts app to get a device-specific menu for uploading a screenshot or opening the camera. If a start time or date isn’t anywhere in the image, you’ll be asked to fill it in rather than getting a bad guess. Events are created with the correct time zone, and a relevant emoji gets added to the title automatically.

FAQ

Does the screenshot really get sent to ChatGPT?

Yes, and that’s worth knowing before you run it on anything sensitive. The image goes to whichever AI provider you’ve configured, so glance at what’s on screen first.

Which provider should I start with?

If you just want to try it for free, a Gemini key or an Apple Intelligence device costs nothing. For the most reliable results and features like location lookups, OpenAI is the one the shortcut was built around.