February 4, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Introducing Apple Invitations, a new app that brings folks collectively for all times’s particular moments
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple in the present day launched Apple Invitations, a brand new app for iPhone that helps customers create customized invites to collect family and friends for any event. With Apple Invitations, customers can create and simply share invites, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and have interaction with Apple Music playlists. Beginning in the present day, customers can obtain Apple Invitations from the App Retailer, or entry it on the internet by way of icloud.com/invitations. iCloud+ subscribers can create invites, and anybody can RSVP, no matter whether or not they have an Apple Account or Apple system.
“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,” stated Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Advertising for Apps and iCloud. “Apple Invitations brings collectively capabilities our customers already know and love throughout iPhone, iCloud, and Apple Music, making it straightforward to plan particular occasions.”
Lovely Invites That Create and Seize Shared Moments
To get began with Apple Invitations, customers can select a picture from their picture library or from the app’s gallery of backgrounds — a curated assortment of photographs representing totally different events and occasion themes. Integrations with Maps and Climate give visitors instructions to the occasion and the forecast for that day.
Moreover, individuals can simply contribute pictures and movies to a devoted Shared Album inside every invite to assist protect recollections and relive the occasion. And collaborative playlists permit Apple Music subscribers to create a curated occasion soundtrack that visitors can entry proper from Apple Invitations.
Apple Intelligence Makes Invitations Even Extra Enjoyable
With Apple Intelligence, creating distinctive occasion invites is simple. Customers can faucet in to the built-in Picture Playground expertise to supply unique photographs utilizing ideas, descriptions, and other people from their picture library. And when composing invites, customers can use Writing Instruments to assist discover simply the appropriate flip of phrase to fulfill the second.1
Easy Methods to Handle and Be part of Occasions
Hosts get full management of their invite expertise: They will simply view and handle their occasions, share invites with a hyperlink, overview RSVPs, and select the main points they need included within the preview, just like the occasion background or a house deal with. Visitors can view and reply to an invite utilizing the brand new iPhone app or on the internet without having an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account. Attendees management how their particulars present as much as others, and have the flexibility to depart or report an occasion at any time.
Further iCloud+ Premium Options
Along with occasion creation in Apple Invitations, iCloud+ subscribers have entry to many extra premium options:
- Expanded storage permits customers to maintain massive libraries of unique, high-resolution pictures, movies, and information protected in iCloud, and simply accessible throughout all of their gadgets and the net.
- Non-public Relay retains looking in Safari totally personal from community suppliers, web sites, and even Apple.
- Disguise My E mail generates distinctive, random e mail addresses every time wanted.
- HomeKit Safe Video permits customers to seize and overview house safety footage in an end-to-end encrypted format.
- Customized e mail domains allow customers to personalize their iCloud e mail deal with.
- Household Sharing permits customers to share their iCloud+ subscription with as much as 5 folks at no additional price.
Customers can study extra about subscribing to iCloud+ at apple.com/icloud, with plans beginning at simply $0.99.
Availability
Apple Invitations is on the market in the present day as a free obtain from the App Retailer for all iPhone fashions operating iOS 18 or later, and will be accessed on the internet at icloud.com/invitations. Some options usually are not accessible in all areas or in all languages. For extra data, go to apple.com/ios/feature-availability.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Apple Intelligence is on the market on iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, and iPhone 16 Professional Max operating iOS 18.2 and later, and will be accessed in most areas around the globe when the system and Siri language are set to localized English for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the U.Ok., or the U.S.
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