Apple has introduced Apple Invitations, an occasion planning app for the iPhone that may let iCloud subscribers create and share invites to events and different occasions. Recipients can RSVP no matter whether or not they have an iCloud subscription or an Apple machine. It’s additionally obtainable on the net.
With Invitations, Apple says hosts can “view and handle their occasions, share invites with a hyperlink, overview RSVPs, and select the main points they need included within the preview,” similar to a house handle or a particular background. Friends can use the app to contribute to a Shared Album with photographs and movies from the occasion.
When creating an invitation inside the app, hosts can use photographs from their library, or select from backgrounds obtainable inside the app. There’s a built-in Picture Playground choice as nicely, permitting hosts to generate pictures with AI so long as they’ve a supported machine, together with Maps and Climate integrations that provide forecast particulars and instructions. Apple Music subscribers can even add a collaborative playlist that company can view from Apple Invitations.
Solely customers who subscribe to iCloud Plus, which begins at 99 cents monthly, can create invitations inside the app. Invitations was first noticed on Apple’s iCloud web site shortly earlier than its official announcement. It’s obtainable to iPhone customers with iOS 18 and up.
The app seems to be similar to Partiful, a preferred occasion invitation service that was based in 2020 and has blown up over the previous few years. Each providers provide a easy, mobile-friendly interface for responding to invitations and getting occasion particulars. Partiful doesn’t cost a charge, and it’s way more oriented towards Gen Z.
Replace, February 4th: This story has been up to date to cowl Apple Invite’s official launch; it initially coated the app leaking shortly earlier than the announcement.
