Built in to the basic features of your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch is the ability to quickly create new appointments or make a call when a date or phone number appears in text form on your device. This is true for emails, text messages, webpages, and many other places where text appears on your iOS device. You will know when you can use this feature if the date and/or the phone number is a different color from the rest of the text.
Whenever you see this, all you need to do is to tap on the date or phone number and a dialogue box will appear giving you options to create a new appointment (if you tapped on a date) or call the number (if you tapped on a phone number). If a time is listed in the text as well as the date, then, tapping on the date will create a new appointment automatically setting the start time to what is listed. If you tap on a date in an email message and create a new calendar event, the calendar app automatically pulls in the title of the email and makes it the title of your calendar event. You can still edit this if you need to.
When tapping on a phone number, you are given the option to “Call” or “Cancel.” 
Tapping call will initiate a call. However, if you want more options, just tap and hold on the phone number in the text. This will bring up these additional options: “Call” “Text Message” “Add to Contacts” “Copy” and “Cancel.” If you tap on “Add to Contacts” you will get additional options to either “Create New Contact” or to “Add to Existing Contact.”
In addition to this, if a website appears in an email or a text message, you can tap on it to be taken directly to that webpage. Tapping and holding on the web address will give you these additional options: “Open” “Add to Reading List” “Copy” and “Cancel.”
For other tips and tricks, see the articles below:
- 5 Tips and Tricks for the iOS Mail App to show you how to better use email on the iPhone, iPad (Mini) and iPod Touch
- 11 Tricks for How to use your Apple Earphones or EarPods with Inline Remote
- How to set up and personalize Siri on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch
- Take your iPhone Camera to the next level – Add Fisheye, Wide Angle, and Macro with Olloclip for iPhone
- 10 Essential Apps for your New iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch
