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Apple updates Cards app ahead of Mother's Day

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Version 1.1 of the Cards iOS app brings new templates and fixes to Apple's digital-to-physical card sending service.

The relatively minor update brings new Mother's Day and Get Well template categories and adds more choices for existing cards like birthdays.

From the release notes:

What's New in Version 1.1

• Beautiful letterpress cards for Mother's Day

• New Get Well card designs

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• Additional cards for birthdays, thank you and more

• Improves accuracy of envelope address verification

• Simplifies and improves the checkout process

First announced in October 2011, Cards now boasts 34 designs to choose from, all of which are printed on cotton paper.

9 Comments

haydn! 14 Years · 16 comments

Where was this update when it was Mothers Day in the UK eh?

gtr 14 Years · 3231 comments

Now if only they could get the delivery times down to something under four weeks for international customers...

slurpy 16 Years · 5393 comments

Why the hell isn't there an iPad version?

dpnorton82 16 Years · 63 comments

The Cards app would be rendered indispensable if it synced with your birthday calendar and gave you an alert 10 days before a listed birthday. -- I bet it would see far more use.

solipsismx 14 Years · 19562 comments

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Originally Posted by Slurpy

Why the hell isn't there an iPad version?

That is the first thing I looked for with the update.

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Originally Posted by dpnorton82

The Cards app would be rendered indispensable if it synced with your birthday calendar and gave you an alert 10 days before a listed birthday. -- I bet it would see far more use.

That sounds like a great idea.