Here are five Apple Invites features you might have missed – 9to5Mac

Apple Invites is a brand new iPhone app that just launched yesterday. After a day of testing it out, here are five features in the Invites app that you might have missed.If you host similar events regularly—maybe a book club, happy hour, or work meeting—you can quickly start a new invite by duplicating a previous one.Just open the event you want to copy, tap the three dots in the top-right corner, and hit Duplicate.The guest list of the original event won’t be copied over, so you’ll need to manually add recipients again. But otherwise, duplicating the event will give you a nice head start on the new invite.If you enable push notifications for the Invites app, Apple lets you further customize the types of notifications you receive with five total options. Tap your profile picture in the top-right corner of the app, then Push Notifications, and you’ll see toggles for the following notification categories:If you prefer to get email alerts instead of push notifications (or in addition to them), there’s an option for that too. By tapping your profile picture you’ll find an Email Updates menu, where you can toggle on email alerts for events you’re hosting and/or ones you’re invited to.Apple offers a variety of privacy-conscious features inside the Invites app. These include the ability to:Additionally, if you receive an invite, your personal contact information won’t be visible to other guests, and you can choose how your name and image are displayed.Just as you might expect from an app like Invites, Apple’s app lets you decide whether to allow guests to add their own guests to the event.But the Invites app goes a bit further too. In addition to the all-or-nothing invite permission that applies to all guests, you can also get more granular and allow only certain guests to make their own invites. This can be done by opening the guest list, then tapping the three dots next to a person and hitting ‘Allow to invite others.’Like to plan ahead? Apple’s Invites app fully supports that. When creating new invites, you don’t have to send them right away. Instead, you can create as many drafts as you’d like and save them for later.When you’re ready to send, just visit the Drafts section of the app, make any last-minute changes, and send the invite.Also, if you get an invite completely ready to go but want to schedule it for later, the scheduling features included in Apple’s Messages and Mail apps have you covered.For a brand new app, Apple Invites feels especially full-featured. There are always things Apple could add later, such as even more app integrations (cost-splitting with Wallet, perhaps?). But what’s available in this launch version is impressive and meets all the basic needs most users will have—and then some.What have your favorite Apple Invites features been so far? Let us know in the comments.FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Check out 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news:Ryan got his start in journalism as an Editor at MacStories, where he worked for four years covering Apple news, writing app reviews, and more. For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.Manage push notifications

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