Apple has quietly rolled out an update to its Apple Invites app. This update adds a small but useful upgrade to one of its most visible features: the Home Screen widget.
The widget originally launched in August as a simple countdown tool, showing the number of days left until a selected event. It worked well enough. However, it required users to manually pick which invitation to track. With the latest update, Apple has added a “Next Upcoming” option. This option automatically switches to the next event as soon as the previous one passes.
In practice, that means the widget can now stay relevant without constant tweaking. Instead of updating it every time an event ends, users can leave it running on their Home Screen.
The app will then cycle through upcoming invitations automatically. For people juggling multiple events – birthdays, parties, or family gatherings – it’s a small quality-of-life improvement that makes the feature far more useful.
Apple Invites itself is still a relatively new addition to the iPhone ecosystem. The app launched in February 2025 as a dedicated tool for creating and sharing digital invitations. Users can design an event with a description and a custom background. They can also add a shared photo album, before generating a link that can be sent to guests.
Notably, creating invitations inside the app requires an iCloud+ subscription, though receiving and responding to them doesn’t. Anyone with the event link can RSVP for free, whether they’re using an iPhone or accessing the invitation through a web browser.
In the US, Apple’s cheapest iCloud+ plan currently costs $0.99 per month for 50GB of storage. This is the entry point for users who want to host events through the app.
The Apple Invites app is available on iPhone, while invitations can also be viewed and managed on the web via iCloud.com. Alongside the new widget behaviour, the latest update also includes the usual round of bug fixes and performance improvements.
