Now, in this new app, Icloud+ subscribers will be able to create personalized invitations. Yes, it may be a minor detail, but when a company offers new and exclusive functionalities without increasing cost, it must be counted, since it is more and more difficult to see today.
Icloud+ benefits
This application was launched almost a couple of months ago in the App Store and allows users to generate invitations for any type of event. In it, you can organize birthday parties, dinners, graduations, meetings, and a long etcetera. The most interesting thing about the app is that anyone can confirm their assistance, even if it does not have an Apple device or an ICloud account. However, the option to create invitations is exclusive for users who pay for ICLOUD+.
Apple's cloud storage service, known as ICloud+, offers several payment plans ranging from 50 GB for 0.99 euros per month to 12 TB for 59.99 euros per month. Until now, these subscriptions already included additional advantages without extra cost, such as the “hide my email” function, safe homekit video storage and private navigation with ICLOUD Private Relay.
The arrival of the invitation app could be a strategic movement to compete with popular services such as Avoid or Paperless Postoffering an alternative integrated in the Apple ecosystem. The key difference is that, while other platforms usually include advertisements or limit functions in their free versions, Apple bets on a system without advertising and with an optimized experience for iPhone and iPad users.
Apple has highlighted in its statement that Icloud+ not only offers storage, but also privacy tools and customization, such as expanded storage, which allows you to save full libraries of photos and videos in original quality without worrying about space, and private navigation in Safari, which prevents the tracking of activity by network suppliers or websites. In addition, “hide my email” allows you to generate temporary mail addresses to protect privacy in forms or subscriptions.
Icloud+ is more than storage
Another important advantage of Icloud+ is the possibility of Share the subscription with up to five people No additional cost.
Although the new function is an interesting addition, it also puts on the table the possibility that Apple continues to reserve certain tools only for payment subscribers.
IPhone users who are already signed to ICloud+ can download Apple invites directly from the app store and start trying the new tool immediately. Meanwhile, those who still do not pay for the service can assess whether or not the advantages are worth paying a subscription.
The question that remains in the air is: Is this only Apple's first step to transform ICloud+ into something more than a simple cloud storage service?
