Apple has introduced Apple Invites, an occasion planning app for the iPhone that can 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 out there on the internet.
With Invites, Apple says hosts can “view and handle their occasions, share invites with a hyperlink, overview RSVPs, and select the small print they need included within the preview,” equivalent to a house handle or a particular background. Guests can use the app to contribute to a Shared Album with photographs and movies from the occasion.
When creating an invitation throughout the app, hosts can use photographs from their library, or select from backgrounds out there throughout the app. There’s a built-in Image Playground choice as nicely, permitting hosts to generate photos with AI so long as they’ve a supported machine, together with Maps and Weather integrations that supply forecast particulars and instructions. Apple Music subscribers also can add a collaborative playlist that friends can view from Apple Invites.
Only customers who subscribe to iCloud Plus, which begins at 99 cents monthly, can create invitations throughout the app. Invites was first noticed on Apple’s iCloud web site shortly earlier than its official announcement. It’s out there to iPhone customers with iOS 18 and up.
The app seems to be similar to Partiful, a well-liked occasion invitation service that was based in 2020 and has blown up over the previous few years. Both companies 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.
Update, 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.
