Try Apple's new Invites app for planning your next event – here's how it works

When you’re inviting friends, family, or co-workers to an event, the most convenient option is to share the event details via text. However, this typically requires either individually texting everyone the details or creating a group chat with a bunch of people who don’t know each other — a recipe for disaster. 

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To enhance how those interactions take place, online invitation platforms like Partiful have become popular, enabling users to create and share invites all within one app. Today, Apple launched its version, an app called Invites that is integrated into the Apple ecosystem for a more seamless experience.

The Invite App

On Tuesday, Apple launched Invites, a standalone app for creating custom invitations, sharing them with a group of people, and RSVPing. Although similar apps already exist, Invites’ key advantage is its integration with other Apple apps. 

For example, Invites users can collaborate on Apple Music Playlists, add photos to Shared Albums, leverage Maps within the invite to navigate to the event, and even get the forecast for the day through the Weather app. 

“Apple Invites brings together capabilities our users already know and love across iPhone, iCloud, and Apple Music, making it easy to plan special events,” said Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apps and iCloud.

Creating an invite is as simple as choosing a background, which can be an image from your photo library, or from the app’s gallery of backgrounds. Apple Intelligence can assist in making the invites, with the built-in Image Playground generator creating images from simple prompts to match your vision for the invite. Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools can help generate the copy. 

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Sharing the invite with others is simple: Users can share the invite via a link and manage the preview of what others see. Guests can RSVP using the iPhone app or the web even if they don’t have an Apple account or subscription. 

How to access

The Invites app is free to download from the App Store for all iPhone models running iOS 18 or later. The experience is also accessible from the web at the standalone site.