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Apple today announced the launch of a new app called "Invites," which is designed to allow users to plan events like birthday parties, graduations, vacations, baby showers, and more.

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"With Apple Invites, an event comes to life from the moment the invitation is created, and users can share lasting memories even after they get together," said Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple's senior director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apps and iCloud. "Apple Invites brings together capabilities our users already know and love across iPhone, iCloud, and Apple Music, making it easy to plan special events."
The app supports creating invitations that can be sent out to people. There are options to choose a background image from the Photos app, choose one of Apple's built-in images, or select an emoji background, with font customization available. Apple automatically adds in information from the Maps and Weather apps so that invitees have all of the data they need for an event, such as weather conditions and directions.

Apple designed Invites with Apple Intelligence in mind. When creating an invite, there is an option to take advantage of Image Playground to create original images using text-based descriptions. Writing Tools can also be employed to find the ideal phrasing for an invitation.

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People who receive invites can RSVP, and there is a built-in method that allows the sender to track who has responded. When the event happens, there's an option to create a collaborative event soundtrack so everyone can contribute music, and a dedicated shared album lets event goers see photos and videos and contribute their own.

Invites is an iCloud+ service, which means that it is available to iCloud+ subscribers. iCloud+ is priced starting at $0.99 per month, and it provides users with additional iCloud storage over the free 5GB that comes with any device.

While anyone is able to respond to an Invite that's sent out, creating invites is limited to iCloud+ subscribers. Apple Invites is available for all iPhone models that run iOS 18 or later, and the app can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Apple Launches New 'Invites' App
 
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I need to know / see the following before using it:

- What does it look like when someone on an earlier version of iOS receives the invite? How do they respond?
- What does it look like when an Android user receives the invite? How do they respond?
- What does it look like when I only have an email address for a contact, not phone number? How do they respond?
 
I need to know / see the following before using it:

- What does it look like when someone on an earlier version of iOS receives the invite? How do they respond?

"Links to the Apple Store to buy a new phone"

- What does it look like when an Android user receives the invite? How do they respond?

"Links to the Switching from Android webpage"

- What does it look like when I only have an email address for a contact, not phone number? How do they respond?

"Use Apple Maps to find a local Apple store to purchase a world class Apple iPhone"
 
I'm an iCloud+ subscriber running iOS 18.3 on an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

I can't find Invite anywhere. I've searched the App Store, Settings and my iPhone.
Will probably take searches a little time to catch up with things and distribute globally. If you go here it'll deep-link you to the App Store page for it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-invites/id6472498645

Worked fine for me in the UK. Nice little app, might use if if I needed to do invites like that I suppose. I don't use Facebook or anything so fills a gap for me there.
 
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