Apple Calendar App Revamp Confirmed by Job Posting

[MacRumors]

A new Apple job listing has provided more evidence that the company is working on a major overhaul of its Calendar app.

A senior software engineer position for "Calendar Experience," spotted by Macworld's Filipe Espósito, explicitly states that Apple seeks candidates to join a team that will "reimagine what a modern calendar can be across Apple's platforms." Listed on April 29, the posting is surely the clearest acknowledgment yet of Apple's Calendar ambitions.

The job listing provides further context for Apple's acquisition of Mayday Labs in April 2024. Per our report earlier this month, the Canadian startup had developed an AI-powered calendar app that automatically scheduled events and tasks at optimal times.

Mayday's features included a "Calendar Shield" that blocked overbooked schedules and AI-powered task scheduling that would suggest ideal focus times. The app could also identify scheduling conflicts and provide rescheduling recommendations.

The Mayday app was shuttered shortly after the acquisition, suggesting the startup's AI capabilities could surface within Apple's own Calendar app under the Apple Intelligence umbrella.

Over a year has passed since the acquisition, so perhaps some of these changes will debut as early as iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, which will be unveiled at Apple's annual developers conference WWDC next month.

Article Link: Apple Calendar App Revamp Confirmed by Job Posting

 

[nicetriangles]

Yeah would be great if it had the kind of functionality of something like Fantastical including natural language parsing for entering events and a menubar flyout widget. Otherwise I'm sticking with Fantastical.

 

[winxmac]

From Siri as an app to being part of Apple ecosystem
From Primephonic app to Apple Music Classical app
From Dark Sky app to updated Weather app
From MayDay app to updated Calendar app

 

[ireallylikeyourmom]

YAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOO MY FAVOURITE APP GETS AN UPDATE YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAA OH YEAH

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

As long as they don't 'AI-ify' it, it should be fine. One of the draws of Apple's stock apps is that they are so easy to use.

 

[klasma]

It's unlikely to be replacing miCal for me.

 

[Leon Nash]

Not sure about your conclusion… that’s just normal big (tech) company job posting mumbo jumbo.

 

[hagar]

I’m curious. Because calendars are tricky. Home, work, family, … some events you have to be there, some you don’t. Locations are not always added, travel times vary…

I also work in two remote locations, there’s tele working … I’m not sure AI will be of any help, let alone be able to accept or reschedule things on my behalf.

 

[bluecoast]

Amazing considering the resources and amount of employees that Apple has how long it takes them to update fundamental parts of their platforms.

I’m wondering if the issue is that any user facing change has to go through a few senior executives first. If so it must be a huge bottleneck to changing anything.

 

[bluecoast]

As long as they don't 'AI-ify' it, it should be fine. One of the draws of Apple's stock apps is that they are so easy to use.

Agreed but they sometimes are a little too simple. I mean if iOS 18s calendar was transported back in time to iOS 8 say, no one would go ‘wow! What is this!?’

 

[Morod]

Oh noes!
Apple, please don't mess up Calendar! It is the one app I depend on daily.

 

[Kaptajn Haddock]

I hope they don't f*ck it up too much, as I think the way it works now is great.

 

[cjsuk]

Guess I’m back to paper again if the photos app is anything to go by.

 

[xmarcuswildx]

I guess I actually like the calendar updates brought recently. I don’t use half the stuff in the event addition section but the layout with the colors and ability to increase and decrease info is great.

 

[johntherazz]

The problem with Calendar (as with Music etc etc) is that they are forever adding new features while failing to address the basic problem that the front end always truncates entries and doesn’t actually show you sufficient information to be useful

 

[ItchyRat2160]

I don't mind them adding more *useful* features to it, but they better not just lace it with AI slop and use my calendar data to train their models.

 

[tridley68]

Crappy software poor battery and they want to turn their resources to fix the calendar app that's not broken lately Tim Apples priorities have definitely been somewhere else just saying .

 

[flightopsguy]

How about being able to discern in what time zone an event will occur? Busy travelers may have events scheduled in multiple time zones.

 

[climber2020]

Calendar 366! I switched to this after Fantastical moved to a subscription model. So much better than the stock calendar app.

 

[raybob]

Guess I’m back to paper again if the photos app is anything to go by.

I still haven’t gotten used to the photos app.

 

[jonnysods]

Simple piece of advice: Buy Fantastical. It's the centrepiece of my work life, I'd love it if they brought it in house and stopped with the subscriptions....

 

[cjsuk]

I still haven’t gotten used to the photos app.

Yeah same. It has died for me. I've moved all my stuff to Lightroom now finally.

I suspect something will happen related to Pixelmator/Photomator at some point but for now I am done.

 

[Wanted797]

If it ain’t broke don’t fit it.

 

[cjsuk]

How about being able to discern in what time zone an event will occur? Busy travelers may have events scheduled in multiple time zones.

It actually does that. You have to turn it on in settings.

I literally spend half my life bouncing around 4-5 time zones and managing it fine with the calendar app as it stands.

 

[dominiongamma]

I hope they don't f*ck it up too much, as I think the way it works now is great.

It can be visually updated because it’s getting old and stale