Mayday purchase: Apple does Apple work on a AI calendar?

The closer Apple developer conference WWDC in June fuels speculations which new functions are expected with the presentation of iOS 19 and other new operating system versions of Apple. It was only at the weekend of improvements to be read in logging into public WLANs. A now known purchase of a AI calendar specialist through Apple causes discussions on the network whether the calendar app may be expanded next to Apple intelligence functions next.

The purchase of Mayday Labs Inc. has only become loud through the European Union transparency obligations. The one from the MacGenaeration side Discovered list Contains several takeover of Apple’s last year, including that of the former “AI mining CO pilot”, which has now been discontinued. The Mayday app existed for Mac, iPhone and iPad and was a mixture of calendar, task management and scheduling assistant. According to the information, the purchase was made on April 3, 2024, the app was discontinued on May 1, 2024.

AI know-how for Apple’s calendar?

Since at least two disciplines of the app are already covered by Apple’s own calendars and the memory app today, it is obvious that the company, based in Cupertino, is particularly interested in the AI-supported elements and the scheduling assistance. Both are fields that have so far been served primarily by third-party apps in the App Store.

For example, thanks to AI, Mayday was able to determine the ideal times for appointments, learned According to the developer the personal preferences of the user and, if necessary, took into account the calendar if other priorities were set. In addition, Apple should be attractive that the app was developed using Swift and Swiftui-Apple’s latest developer tools.

Apple’s long list of purchases

However, it is difficult to estimate whether the time has been sufficient since the purchase to bring the know-how into the Apple’s own calendar app in iOS 19. Or whether this requires more time and can only be expected in iOS 20 or later. Other assumptions go in the direction that maybe the calendar app itself could not be the purpose of the determination, but that Apple promises a deeper calendar and task knowledge for its planned improvements from Siri.

Circuits that arise in new features in the operating system have always been in the history of the iPhone. Prominent examples are the music recognition Shazam or the Dark Sky weather app, which resulted in an improved weather app in iOS. Speech assistant Siri was also bought by Apple.