Snapped a photo of an event poster? Google Photos could soon add it to your calendar

Google Photos v8.0 reportedly contains code that allows Ask Photos to create calendar events directly from photos of event posters. In tests, it successfully extracted key details like the event's name, date, time, and description from a captured image. Asking for calendar permissions, Ask Photos then presented the event to Android's confirmation prompt, suggesting it interacts with the user's default calendar application rather than solely Google Calendar.

However, the feature is still in development as it mistakenly applied a US time zone to an event for which no such information was provided in the poster, leading to an incorrect date and time in the user's calendar. The issue isn't unique; many have experienced forgetting about an event after taking its photograph until it's too late.

While Google Photos can add events from certain digital tickets and screenshots, spotting a flyer on the street and then remembering to add it to the calendar can be an inconvenient step. Google's Gemini can facilitate event addition to Google Calendar, but this requires switching between apps, which may not be practical. It seems Google is working towards streamlining this process by allowing users to directly input event details into Ask Photos.

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