- Apple just dropped an app that is about creating event invitations
- It includes Apple Intelligence -Features such as Image Playground and Writing Tools
- You can easily create a shared photo album with all guests
Apple has been slowly but surely improvements to its calendar app across platforms – iOS, iPados and macOS – but if you were hoping for an easier way to plan events within the ecosystem, your wish will be awarded.
In fact, it’s in the form of a brand new app called Apple invites – and it’s about event planning. It is designed to be a one-stop shop to create the event’s invitation-maybe even to use Apple Intelligence’s photo playground to create the image from setting a description to build a guest list and send invitations.
The app itself will be to create, send and receive invitations. Like partial or evites, it will allow invited people to RSVP and see all event information while the host can compile the experience at Backend.
iCloud+ is a central part of this as you need it to send invitations and create an event. However, onboarding notes Apple is invited that anyone can receive the invitations. Therefore, there is also a web interface for Apple invitations, which means that people with an Android phone can attend the party.
However, the benefits of Apple are probably inviting in the ecosystem. First, when you create an event in the iOS app, start with a name and description. With one of these fields you can use ‘Writing Tools’ to spice up your writing.
Then, considering an event that needs a photo or graphics, you can choose a preset from three themes – emoji, photographic or colors – click a photo with the camera, select one from your library or jump right into the photo playground to make one with Apple Intelligence.
Perhaps the most practical thing is that you can create a shared album through iCloud photos when you create the event. This way you can potentially solve the problem of getting all your guests to send and share photos after the event. This can solve a large point of pain and can be very convenient for a birthday or graduation party as well as a baby shower or a house heating event.
If it is also a costume party or has a big, bold theme like the 80s – disco time, right? – You can also set the mood and share some photos before the deadline. Although the victory here can be after the fact
Similar to a shared photo library, you can also create an Apple Music Playlist that is useful for setting the stage, but also one that invited guests can use to add their favorites to the DJ mixture at night.
Like partial and other apps that make it easy to find the place, Apple automatically invites guests to get routing guidance when you add somewhere. Based on time and location, it will also give a preview of the expected weather.
As for sending the invitations, you can now select guests from your contacts or create a link to public invitation. With the latter, anyone who gets the link could RSVP, but you can turn on a “approval RSVPS” setting to go over the guest list manually. That way you don’t have any party accidents … at least super organized.
If you invite someone without an iPhone, the web experience is designed to be beautiful on par with the iPhone app. And that is the case if you have an Android device -you still get full access to the collaborative aspects such as the shared playlist and photos if you assume you have or make an Apple account.
How much does it cost?
The only requirement is to be an iCloud+ tuner starting at $ 0.99 in the US, £ 0.99 in the UK, or $ 1.49 in Australia. Apple Invites is the latest addition to iCloud Plus, which also delivers sky storage (starting at 50 GB), HomeKit Secure Video, Private Relay and the opportunity to hide your iCloud email when creating other accounts.
Apple invites have some benefits over, say, partial or other event planning. It probably seems like a good option – one that we will have to test – for those in the Apple ecosystem that has friends with or without an iPhone. The fact that you can still collaborate with the shared photo library, even with an Android phone, is a good step for Apple and may encourage any iMessage sharing.
The fact that iCloud Plus is required still shows that services are still of the utmost importance to Apple. First, I am glad that this can make it easier to share photos, which is a match.
Similar to services, Apple Intelligence is critically important to the company, and invitations seem to make the case that two of the prominent features may be useful here. Writing tools are beaten as a way to spice up event descriptions and the photo playground hopes you use generative AI to create event photos.
