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How to save an event from a poster or flyer to your calendar
For one event on one poster, your iPhone can often do it by itself: Visual Intelligence or a screenshot's Add to Calendar reads the date, time and place, and you check them before saving. When a poster lists several dates, like a season of fixtures or a weekend of workshops, Shiftpup for iPhone reads them all on your phone and adds the ones you keep in one go. Either way, check the year, the start time and the venue.
With your iPhone's own tools
On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence:
- Visual Intelligence. Point it at the poster and, when it finds an event, tap Create Event, check the details and save it. On models with the Camera Control, press and hold it to start.
- Add to Calendar on a screenshot (iOS 26). Screenshot a poster you've seen online, and an Add to Calendar button can appear in the full-screen screenshot view.
Both add one event at a time, which is exactly right for one gig. The comparison of built-in features has the details and the sources.
With Shiftpup for iPhone
- Snap the poster or choose a screenshot. Pip reads it on your iPhone. The biggest line on a poster is usually the event's name, so Pip uses it as the title.
- Check the event: the date, the start, the end and the place. The rest of what the poster says, like prices or a line-up, comes along in the event's notes.
- Several dates? A fixtures list or a festival programme becomes several events. Remove the ones you won't go to.
- Add to Calendar, or share a calendar file with whoever's coming with you.
By hand
Tap + in Calendar, use the event's name as the title, set the date and time, and type the venue's address in Location. With a real address, Calendar can tell you when to leave.
Things that trip people up
- Last year's poster. Posters stay up long after the night. If a poster says "Saturday 18 October", remember that 18 October 2026 is a Sunday: that poster is probably from another year.
- No year at all. Most posters skip it. Shiftpup picks the year that puts the date between a couple of months ago and about ten months ahead, so check any date that's far off.
- Doors versus start. "Doors 7 pm, music 8 pm": pick the time you need to be there, and keep the other in the notes.
- "Till late". If a poster gives no end time, Shiftpup makes the event an hour long and says so in its notes. Change the end to something realistic so your evening looks right.
- Festivals and fairs. A three-day festival is one all-day event across three days, or one timed event for each day you're going.
- "Every Saturday". A weekly market or a class "every Tuesday in November" is one event that repeats. Shiftpup adds the dates the poster actually prints; for a weekly event, add the first one, then set Repeat and End Repeat in Calendar.
- QR codes. A QR code often leads to a ticket page with its own add-to-calendar link. Open it with the Camera app; Shiftpup reads printed dates, not QR codes.
- Events while travelling. If you save something for a trip, check that it shows the venue's local time.
Common questions
Do I need Shiftpup for a single poster?
Often not. If your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence, try Visual Intelligence or a screenshot first. Shiftpup earns its place when a poster has many dates, or on an iPhone without those features: it reads text with Apple's on-device recognition, not Apple Intelligence.
Is the poster photo uploaded?
Not by Shiftpup for iPhone. It reads the photo on your iPhone and never uploads it. See the iPhone privacy details.
Can the web version read posters?
No. The web version is built for work schedules. For a poster, use your iPhone's own tools, Shiftpup for iPhone, or type the event in.