{"id":537513,"date":"2026-07-21T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:37:15","slug":"apple-invites-brings-emoji-replies-and-confetti-to-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537513\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Invites brings emoji replies and confetti to the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-lede\">A second update to Apple Invites for <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/ios\" title=\"iOS\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a> in as many months adds two small changes: emoji replies and a pile of confetti.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Apple has already made one update to the Apple Invites app this summer with some handy new features. Its second is smaller, but still quite celebratory in nature.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The release of <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/apple-invites\/id6472498645\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">version 1.10<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/app-store\" title=\"App Store\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">App Store<\/a> explains there are two changes made to the app. The first is that the host and guests are able to reply to each other using emoji, rather than words.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The change makes responses quicker, and as Apple says, it allows everyone to &#8220;share the excitement as the guest list comes together.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The other main change to the app is the addition of a confetti animation, which fires off when guests reply. There&#8217;s also the usual collection of bug fixes and performance improvements.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The previous update, which took place <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/23\/co-hosting-guest-list-visibility-finally-arrives-for-apple-invites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in June<\/a>, added a co-hosting capability, as well as quality-of-life improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second update to Apple Invites for iOS in as many months adds two small changes: emoji replies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-537513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}