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 accessible on the internet.
With Invitations, Apple says hosts can “view and handle their occasions, share invites with a hyperlink, evaluation RSVPs, and select the main points they need included within the preview,” corresponding to a house deal with or a particular background. Friends can use the app to contribute to a Shared Album with pictures and movies from the occasion.
When creating an invitation inside the app, hosts can use pictures from their library, or select from backgrounds accessible inside the app. There’s a built-in Picture Playground possibility 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 may also add a collaborative playlist that visitors can view from Apple Invitations.
Solely customers who subscribe to iCloud Plus, which begins at 99 cents per 30 days, can create invitations inside the app. Invitations was first noticed on Apple’s iCloud web site shortly earlier than its official announcement. It’s accessible 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. 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.
