Apple reportedly engaged on a brand new app to resolve Calendar’s largest downside

Apple appears to have taken discover of in style event-planning apps like Partiful and may very well be working by itself first-party occasions app.

In accordance with 9to5Mac, references to Apple’s “Invitations” app have been present in iOS 18.3’s beta 2 code. The app is reportedly being designed to assist customers plan in-person and on-line occasions. The app may very well be built-in with iCloud and have a web-based model that individuals can entry on iCloud.com.

A brand new different to the Calendar app

Nevertheless, third-party apps already do event-planning properly

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Whereas the Calendar app can already ship out invitations for gatherings, the Invitations app may function a strategy to create a devoted web page in your occasion that shares info in a extra visually interesting approach. The app may very well be useful for maintaining monitor of RSVPs and be used for a lot of varieties of gatherings, equivalent to weddings, birthday events, anniversaries and extra.

Third-party apps that do that exist already, like Partiful, which is accessible on Android and iOS. The app enables you to create a web page in your occasion, and you should use it to handle all the things multi functional spot quite than awkwardly attempting to convey a bunch of particulars via a gaggle chat or e-mail. The app received Google Play’s Best App of 2024 award and was a finalist within the 2024 App Store awards.

9to5Mac reports that Apple is utilizing a brand new daemon (framework) known as GroupKit for the app, a database for managing teams of individuals. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether or not Invitations could have its personal standalone app or ever be launched in any respect. Apple hasn’t formally introduced something and did not point out it at WWDC 2024 when it introduced iOS 18.

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