Apple Invites App Gets Co-Hosting

[gummybear2026]

Apple loves making useless apps.

 

[enigmatut]

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Given Apple’s privacy stance, I trust (and actually prefer) them for this sort of thing versus one of the many other evite platforms. I simply don’t trust those platforms with my data… either as the sender or the receiver. (Nothing pisses me off more than getting a text invite to something and when I RSVP, I find that someone has uploaded my contact details to some random platform I’ve never heard of.)

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I’m not militant about not using the other apps, but my Apple-hating friends who (somewhat ironically) are also very privacy-focused will never be convinced of Apple’s privacy record, and they sure as spit won’t create (or use some dusty bygone-and-now-unused) Apple account to RSVP.

So honestly when I host I just use Partiful and occasionally someone will directly text me their RSVP instead of using the app and I take a breath a move on, haha.

 

[enigmatut]

Let me know when you go multi-platform and this app becomes actually useful.

It’s possible to RSVP on the web, but requires using your Apple ID, which my Apple-hating green-bubble friends don’t have and certainly have no plans to create one. So I’m rooting for no-login RSVP.

EDIT: apparently one can RSVP without logging in, but it still requires entering an email address.

 

[Rafagon]

There should be different levels of co-host.

Co-host level 10 can change the event title.
Can uninvite people.
Can promote an invitee to Co-host.
Can cancel an event.
Can demote co-hosts to a lower level.
Can promote co-hosts to a higher level.
Can control the weather at the event.

Level 9 has several nice abilities but cannot touch a level 10 co-host.

Level 8... etc.

All the way down to Level 1 Co-host, which has barely any special powers.