February 4, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Introducing Apple Invitations, a new app that brings individuals collectively for all times’s particular moments
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple as we speak 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 as we speak, customers can obtain Apple Invitations from the App Retailer, or entry it on the net 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,” mentioned 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 simple 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, individuals can simply contribute images and movies to a devoted Shared Album inside every invite to assist protect recollections and relive the occasion. And collaborative playlists enable 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 straightforward. Customers can faucet in to the built-in Picture Playground expertise to provide unique pictures utilizing ideas, descriptions, and folks from their photograph 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 a part of Occasions
Hosts get full management of their invite expertise: They will simply view and handle their occasions, share invites with a hyperlink, evaluation RSVPs, and select the main points they need included within the preview, just like the occasion background or a house handle. Company can view and reply to an invite utilizing the brand new iPhone app or on the net without having an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account. Attendees management how their particulars present as much as others, and have the flexibility to go away 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 images, movies, and recordsdata secure in iCloud, and simply accessible throughout all of their units and the net.
- Non-public Relay retains shopping in Safari fully non-public from community suppliers, web sites, and even Apple.
- Conceal My E mail generates distinctive, random e-mail addresses at any time when wanted.
- HomeKit Safe Video permits customers to seize and evaluation dwelling safety footage in an end-to-end encrypted format.
- Customized e-mail domains allow customers to personalize their iCloud e-mail handle.
- Household Sharing permits customers to share their iCloud+ subscription with as much as 5 individuals at no additional 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 out there as we speak 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 will not be 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 this time, 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 individuals 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 out there 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 world wide 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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