iOS 779: Holiday Planning - Apps for Stress-Free Preparation
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ready to ditch holiday stress? Discover the relatively new Apple Invites app and cutting-edge planning tools that could change how you host, organize, and celebrate with friends and family this season.
- Apple Invites app demo: shared photos, playlists, and event updates
- Partiful vs. Apple Invites: choosing invite apps friends actually use
- Shared reminders and sections: holiday shopping and planning hacks
- OmniOutliner for meal prep and complex holiday schedules, plus AI outlines
- Favorite recipe apps: Paprika vs. Crouton for Thanksgiving cooking
- Secret Santa gift exchanges made easy with Elfster app features
- News: Apple launches $150 iPhone Pocket fashion accessory. New Apple hardware updates: iPad Pro, 14" MacBook Pro, Vision Pro M5
- App Caps: Torras Mini MagSafe battery pack and Locket Widget social app
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 1:00.3 | Coming up on iOS today, the holidays are upon us. Oh my goodness. And so it is time to talk about |
| 1:07.0 | holiday planning on this episode of iOS today. Stay tuned. |
| 1:13.7 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 1:18.3 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:22.3 | This is iOS Today, episode 779, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, |
| 1:30.4 | November 11th, 2025 for Thursday, November 20th, 2025. Holiday planning. Hello and welcome to iOS |
| 1:39.7 | today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPad, OS, watch OS, HomePod OS, and all the OSs |
| 1:43.9 | that Apple offers to us as well as the apps, gadgets, gizmos, settings, etc., that you should consider |
| 1:54.0 | for yourself to help make those experiences even more grand. I am one of your hosts. |
| 2:01.3 | My name just so happens to be Micah Sargent. |
| 2:04.5 | And my name is Rosemary Ochoate. |
| 2:06.4 | And I'm very happy to be here today and maybe to help people outline things, plan things, |
| 2:11.7 | remind themselves because I hear, and being a Brit, I'm not entirely convinced about this, |
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