Say howdy to Apple Invitations

After weeks of rumors, Apple has formally introduced its new occasion administration app: Apple Invites.

Apple Invitations permits customers to create customized invites to ship to family and friends for occasions resembling weddings, birthday events, workplace conferences, and extra. The brand new app additionally permits customers to handle RSVPs for any occasion and create a shared photograph album and Apple Music playlist for it. These options are solely out there to iCloud+ subscribers, however anybody can settle for an RSVP, no matter whether or not they have an Apple system or account.

Apple Invitations is accessible for obtain on the App Retailer now, and customers can entry it by way of the online on iCloud’s website. The app requires iOS 18 or later to obtain.

“With Apple Invitations, an occasion involves life from the second the invitation is created, and customers can share lasting recollections even after they get collectively,” Apple mentioned in a press release. “Apple Invitations brings collectively capabilities our customers already know and love throughout iPhone, iCloud, and Apple Music, making it straightforward to plan particular occasions.”

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Apple Invitations is like making a poster

You’ll be able to add your individual picture for the occasion or generate one with Picture Playground

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While you first open the Apple Invitations app, you’ll be given the choice to create an occasion. From there, you may make a title for the occasion, choose the date, time, and placement, add an outline, and fix a picture. You’ll be able to share the occasion by way of iMessage, textual content message, e mail, and with different third-party apps resembling WhatsApp. The entire expertise jogs my memory of making a poster.

You may as well add an Apple Music playlist to the occasion, permitting customers to view the music being performed proper from the Apple Invitations web page. It’s unclear if Apple will add additional help for different music streaming providers, like Spotify, sooner or later. The Shared Album function lets the host and attendees contribute photographs and movies from the occasion, that are simply accessible to everybody afterward.

Apple Invitations provides hosts full management of their occasions, permitting them to view visitor lists, handle RSVPs, and set privateness settings. Customers with a tool that helps Apple Intelligence may use Picture Playground to generate a picture for the occasion and use its AI Writing Instruments to assist write the occasion’s message.

Apple Invitations can be built-in with Maps and Climate, so attendees can rapidly get instructions to the occasion and the climate forecast on the day of the occasion. It’s now out there on the App Retailer for gadgets with iOS 18 or later. Creating an occasion requires an iCloud+ subscription, which begins at $1 a month.

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