Cards (iOS)

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Cards is a card creation application developed by Apple for iOS 5. Cards was released to the general public on October 12, 2011.

Features

Creation

Cards allows users to create cards and obtain them physically. The application offers 21 template designs across six categories, including "Thank You," "Holiday," "Baby," "Birthday," "Love" and "Travel," and allows users to customize photos and text within the card. Cards uses Location integration. Users who choose a Travel design will see the name of their current location displayed on the card. The app also reads GPS data from photos, so locations can be displayed even after the photo is taken. Cards keeps track of each card a user CREATES in its history. One card can be sent to multiple recipients.

Shipping

When finished creating cards, users have the ability to have it created in a physical form and mailed. Users place orders using their Apple ID and password and include custom-designed postage if shipped within the United States. Each card is created from 100 percent cotton paper. Notifications will Appear on the iOS device that the card was created on once the card has been shipped.

Due to the heavily stylized font used on the envelopes, the number 6 can be easily confused with 0, making it risky to send a card to anyone with a 6 in their address. Also, city and street names that start with a P can look like they start with a D. ("Pog St." could cause the mailman to look for "Dog St.") The same applies to the capital letter 'I', which looks like the number 2. People who abbreviate states with a lowercase second letter may have particular trouble: The abbreviation for Illinois (Il) looks like "H", Iowa (Ia) looks like "Da", Indiana (In) looks like "Dn", and Idaho (Id) is unrecognizable, but one might guess that it's "Hi" (Hawaii).