Calendar app could get 'Confetti'. Apple's secretive event and meeting invite app is advancing in development, with an internal iCloud deployment within the company expected as early as the week of February 3. The second developer beta of iOS 18.3 included references to an unreleased internal app for dealing with event scheduling. Now, it appears Apple is preparing to launch an internal trial of the app in the near future.

Apple intends to introduce an app based on iCloud that will allow employees to invite others to events and meetings, reports Bloomberg's newsletter on Sunday. The app is reportedly codenamed "Confetti," a relatively festive name that plays on the whole invitation concept. The introduction could happen as soon as the coming week, if not a little later, the publication predicts. The timing of the app's introduction is designed to coincide with the release of iOS 18.3.

While the Gurman newsletter is light on detail for "Confetti," the early January discovery in the iOS 18.3 developer beta offers a lot more information. That discovery, apparently known as "Invites" rather than "Confetti," was actually preceded by code references in iOS 18.2's betas, before being removed for the public OS release. At the time, it was considered to be an extension of the existing changes Apple already made to the Calendar app in 2024. This includes scheduling reminders within the application.

With support for iCloud, "Invites" could allow more ways to schedule and organize meetings and in-person events. It was said to communicate with an iOS 18 daemon known as GroupKit. As it's possible to schedule reminders from multiple apps in iOS 18, it's feasible that "Invites" could do the same for meetings and events. There's also the opportunity to use it with Apple Intelligence so users could add Genmoji to invites.

While little is truly known about the workings of "Invites," and by extension "Confetti," it does seem certain that the app will be about meeting invitations in some way. Since Apple seems intent on "dogfooding" the app in its development, it may be a considerable amount of time before it becomes a publicly usable tool. Based in South Wales, Malcolm Owen has written about tech since 2012, and previously wrote for Electronista and MacNN. In his downtime, he pursues photography, has an interest in magic tricks, and is bothered by his c...

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