Cards (iOS)

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Cards
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Developer(s) Apple Inc.
Initial releaseOctober 12, 2011 (2011-10-12) (iPhone 4S)
Final release
iOS 6.0 / September 19, 2012;10 years ago (2012-09-19)
Operating system iOS 5 and later
Platform iOS
Size 92.3  MB
Available inEnglish, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
License Freeware
Website itunes.apple.com

Cards was a card creation application developed by Apple Inc. for iOS 5. [1] Cards was released to the general public on October 12, 2011. The application was discontinued on September 10, 2013. [2] [3]

Contents

Features

Creation

Cards allowed users to create cards and obtain them physically. The application offered 21 template designs across six categories, including "Thank You," "Holiday," "Baby," "Birthday," "Love" and "Travel," and allowed users to customize photos and text within the card. [4] Cards used Location integration. Users who chose a Travel design would see the name of their current location displayed on the card. [5] The app also read GPS data from photos, so locations could be displayed even after the photo is taken. [6] Cards kept track of each card a user created in its history. One card could be sent to multiple recipients.

Shipping

When finished creating cards, users had the ability to have it created in a physical form and mailed. [7] Users placed orders using their Apple ID and password and included custom-designed postage if shipped within the United States. [8] Each card was created from 100 percent cotton paper. Notifications appeared on the iOS device that the card was created on once the card had been shipped. [9]

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