Apple Invites

App looks great and not much complaint. But why it doesn’t support Time Zone? Even if I adjust the time zone after export to calendar, the time zone will back to original time zone once I open the app. Pls fix it asap.

Hi great initiative love it however anyone that is not on apple is having issues trying to reply respond to going etc it gives them no options can you explain

I’ve tried to create an event through Apple Invites inviting people of all ages, tech familiarity and device types. Whether through dark patterns, bad UI or user incompetence, we’ve had to be tech support for our guests who can’t seem to view the invite without signing in to an Apple account (that many claim they don’t have). Apple, don’t ruin a good app trying to trick people outside of your ecosystem to sign up for Apple accounts. This could replace Facebook events if you stop making it a nightmare for people to access the invites.

I used the app to create an invite for my daughter’s Birthday party. I shared the invite link with my wife, who then forwarded it on to each of the parents of the kids that were invited. Some of the parents RSVP’d under their own names (rather than their child’s name). So I think the RSVP prompts need to be more clear for invitees. Some also just RSVP’d by sending a reply directly to my wife. As another reviewer pointed out, it would be good to have a manual RSVP feature for the host. I think some parents also incorrectly assumed they needed to have an iCloud account in order to RSVP once clicking on the invite link, so it should be made clearer that this is not the case.

I made an app for a child’s birthday we are flying to have in another state. App converts time to local Timezone and doesn’t tell you if you created the invite in another Timezone. Guests turned up 3 hours early. Also accepting of invites scares people because they are told to login with AppleID. I know this is safe. But for older people they close it and don’t progress. Maybe make it more native into the iOS experience. Maybe include invites within the OS

The app works great and is easy to create an invite however the effort invitees need to go through to accept/decline invites makes it unusable. Invitees need to either download the app or login to iCloud and if they don’t accept soon after receiving the invite the invite expires. Useless

First time using, I can already see one useful change to functionality. Sometimes guests who are invited RSVP verbally, or via another method. It would be good to include a manual coming/not coming button for the organiser to use.

Generally I’m loving it but there’s things that I’d like to see added e.g ability to only allow guests for certain people (sometimes you’ve invited both people in a couple individually).

The concept is great. However most people think you are just messaging a picture and do not even click to open the invite. Nice picture is a common response. Those that do open it there is sign in click here do this do that. Maybe on the invite pic have an attending YES/NO button then it opens up to a deeper menu with add to calendar YES / NO. Finally if you want to share music and photos sign in as optional. I have called friends who text back their RSVP as the invite is too complicated to bother with. Once upon a time Apple was simple and worked.

The recipients of my invitations were welcomed with a screen informing them they’d have to give up on end to end iCloud encryption (AKA Advanced Data Protection) in order to be able to view my invitation. And as much as I’d like them to view my invitation, having to sacrifice their security for that is a big no-no.