February 4, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Introducing Apple Invitations, a new app that brings folks collectively for all times’s particular moments
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time launched Apple Invitations, a brand new app for iPhone that helps customers create customized invites to assemble family and friends for any event. With Apple Invitations, customers can create and simply share invites, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and interact with Apple Music playlists. Beginning at this time, customers can obtain Apple Invitations from the App Retailer, or entry it on the net via icloud.com/invitations. iCloud+ subscribers can create invites, and anybody can RSVP, no matter whether or not they have an Apple Account or Apple machine.
“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,” mentioned Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Advertising and marketing 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 photograph library or from the app’s gallery of backgrounds — a curated assortment of pictures representing completely different events and occasion themes. Integrations with Maps and Climate give friends instructions to the occasion and the forecast for that day.
Moreover, members can simply contribute photographs 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 friends 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 authentic pictures utilizing ideas, descriptions, and folks from their photograph library. And when composing invites, customers can use Writing Instruments to assist discover simply the fitting flip of phrase to satisfy 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, evaluate RSVPs, and select the small print they need included within the preview, just like the occasion background or a house tackle. Company can view and reply to an invite utilizing the brand new iPhone app or on the net while not having an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account. Attendees management how their particulars present as much as others, and have the power 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 giant libraries of authentic, high-resolution photographs, movies, and information protected in iCloud, and simply accessible throughout all of their units and the online.
- Personal Relay retains searching in Safari totally personal from community suppliers, web sites, and even Apple.
- Cover My Electronic mail generates distinctive, random e-mail addresses each time wanted.
- HomeKit Safe Video permits customers to seize and evaluate house safety footage in an end-to-end encrypted format.
- Customized e-mail domains allow customers to personalize their iCloud e-mail tackle.
- Household Sharing permits customers to share their iCloud+ subscription with as much as 5 folks at no further price.
Customers can be taught extra about subscribing to iCloud+ at apple.com/icloud, with plans beginning at simply $0.99.
Availability
Apple Invitations is on the market at this time as a free obtain from the App Retailer for all iPhone fashions working iOS 18 or later, and could be accessed on the net at icloud.com/invitations. Some options should not out there in all areas or in all languages. For extra info, go to apple.com/ios/feature-availability.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At the moment, 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 units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective 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 working iOS 18.2 and later, and could be accessed in most areas all over the world when the machine 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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