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 system. It’s additionally out there on the net.
With Invitations, 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,” similar to a house deal with or a particular background. Visitors can use the app to contribute to a Shared Album with images and movies from the occasion.
When creating an invitation throughout the app, hosts can use images from their library, or select from backgrounds out there throughout the app. There’s a built-in Picture Playground choice as properly, permitting hosts to generate photographs with AI so long as they’ve a supported system, together with Maps and Climate integrations that supply forecast particulars and instructions. Apple Music subscribers also can add a collaborative playlist that visitors can view from Apple Invitations.
Solely customers who subscribe to iCloud Plus, which begins at 99 cents monthly, can create invitations throughout the app. Invitations 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 preferred occasion invitation service that was based in 2020 and has blown up over the previous few years. Each companies supply a easy, mobile-friendly interface for responding to invitations and getting occasion particulars. Partiful doesn’t cost a payment, and it’s rather more oriented towards Gen Z.
Replace, February 4th: This story has been up to date to cowl Apple Invite’s official launch; it initially lined the app leaking shortly earlier than the announcement.
