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How to Use the New Apple Invites App
Mar 11, 2025
Article on Cult of Mac: https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/apple-invites-app More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Produced by Extra Ordinary for Cult of Mac Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones To tackle your party planning, the new #Apple #Invites app for #iPhone can help you get organized with RSVPs and keep everybody up to date. It can even handle a shared music playlist and photo album that anyone can contribute to. Chapters: 0:00 Getting started 1:04 Create an event 4:35 Receiving an invitation 5:44 Managing an event Follow us! Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cultofmac Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/ X: https://x.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac
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to tackle your party planning the Apple
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invites app can help you get organized
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with RSVPs and keep everybody up to date
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it can even handle a shared music
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playlist and photo album that anyone can
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contribute to here's how it
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works so to get started download the
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free Apple invites app from the App
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Store all it requires is iOS 18.0 or
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later now to create an event and send
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out invitations you do need to be a paid
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iCloud Plus subscriber if you pay for
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extra iCloud space at any tier including
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the 99 C 50 GB plan you already have it
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likewise if you pay for the Apple One
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bundle at any level now the people you
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invite don't need to be paid subscribers
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they don't even need to have an Apple
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device or an Apple account at all you
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can invite people by email they can RSVP
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on the web and get updates via their
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email inbox however invite do have a
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nicer experience if they have the Apple
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invites app as well to create an event
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you'll see a large create event button
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the first time you open the app if you
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don't have any other events to show as
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will likely be the case the first time
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you launch it you can also tap the Plus
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at the top of the screen give the event
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a title and pick from four available
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fonts tap date and time to set when the
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event begins enable include end time to
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specify an end time as well you can
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enable all day to make it a dayong event
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with no specific starter end time and
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you can enable both of those to make it
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a multi-day long event tap location to
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type in an address or look something up
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on Apple maps you can also specify a
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custom location name like Lewis's house
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or Lakeside picnic tables to appear
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alongside the address tap add a
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description to add further information
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about the event up to 1,000 characters
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you can also give yourself a custom host
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name to appear on the invitation as well
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tap add background at the top of the
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screen to choose a cover image apple has
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three different styles of stock imagery
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you can use Emoji are patterns made out
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of different Emoji similar to the lock
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screen style photographic are
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highquality stock images in a variety of
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themes colors are geometric shapes in
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blue green orange pink purple red and
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Yellow on a device with apple
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intelligence enabled you can tap
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playground to generate an AI image using
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image playground or a much better idea
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is you can tap camera to take a picture
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or photos to pick an image from your
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library tap create album to start a
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shared photo album anybody invited to
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the event will be able to contribute
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their pictures to it for everyone else
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to see entering a name and tap done tap
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add playlist to either select an
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existing playlist or create a new new
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one anyone invited to the event will be
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able to listen to and contribute to the
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playlist although this will require a
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separate Apple music subscription tap
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preview in the top right to see what
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it'll look like when you send out your
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invitation and tap next to begin sending
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them out you have a bunch of options for
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how this works first you can create a
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public link tap messages or mail to send
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it out using one of those apps or tap
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share link to bring up the system share
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sheet for a variety of other apps you
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can also tap copy link that you can
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paste anywhere else while anybody who
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opens these links can RSVP to the event
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you can enable approve guests if you
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want to limit attendance to people you
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know or you can tap choose a guest for
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sending private links to specific people
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you know tap on a name to pick someone
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from your contacts then tap share link
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or you can tap new guest to type in a
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name for somebody outside your contacts
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tap the event settings button in the
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upper right for additional nitpicky
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settings additional guests let you offer
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your invitees a plus one plus two up to
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a plus five approve guests limits
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attendance to only the people who you
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personally approve remove background
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preview will hide the featured image
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until guests are verified for privacy
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reasons background image description
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lets you add alt text to the image for
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people who use screen readers pause
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replies will temporarily prevent people
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from rsvping if there's there's a
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problem you need to correct and you can
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duplicate cancel or delete an event when
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you receive an invitation it'll open in
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the web browser if you don't have the
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app installed or you don't have an Apple
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account a banner at the top of the
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screen will prompt you to download it if
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it's compatible you can verify your
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email address to RSVP tap going not
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going or maybe to respond if you were
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allowed a plus one or more you can
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specify how many people will be joining
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you as well type something in add
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message if you want to say something to
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the host like I'll be bringing my
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strawberry jello pretzel salad or I'll
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be a little late you can see all the
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information including the weather at the
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time of the event the location in Apple
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Maps along with the shared photo album
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and playlist tap join album or add music
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if you want to contribute tap the add to
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calendar button at the top to add the
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event to your personal calendar the
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event will even have a URL attached to
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it you can tap to open the event
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information at any any time
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unfortunately if any changes to the
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event are made by the host like to the
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date and time or location the calendar
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event does not automatically update you
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have to tap the add to calendar button
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again to receive updated information as
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the host you can open the invites app at
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any time to see who's rsvpd edit the
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information invite more guests or send
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out information tap on the guest list to
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see who's coming how many plus ones
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they're bringing and see any messages
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they've written tap on their name to
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view their contact information bless
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them with the ability to invite other
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guests if the feature isn't already
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enabled for everyone or remove them from
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the event if you need to change event
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details tap the more button in the upper
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right and tap edit you can make your
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changes tap done and you'll see a panel
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asking you to confirm your changes tap
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update event and it'll send an alert to
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everybody who's attending send a note
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lets you send a message to all the
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guests
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such as parking details or any
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additional information you want them to
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read and you can tap invite guests to
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invite additional people with all the
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same options as before and that's how to
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use the Apple invites app if you
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successfully plan a party using Apple
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invites leave a message in the comments
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and let me know how that went remember
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to like And subscribe I'm dein Jones
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