Save gift ideas

The best gift ideas rarely arrive in December. They come when someone mentions a book in passing, or when you spot something in a shop that's perfect for your father-in-law. In Gave you save the idea there and then, for the person you're thinking of. Only you see it.

How to save a gift idea

Tap plus, or share a link to Gave from your browser or another app.
Choose someone else, and pick the person the idea is for. You can save ideas for anyone you follow.
Paste a link, and Gave fills in the name, price, and picture. Add a few words on why it suits them, if you like.
Choose whether it's just an idea or you've already reserved or bought it, and whether it's for their birthday or Christmas.

The idea sits on the person's profile, so you'll find it when their birthday or Christmas comes round.

Only you see it

A gift idea is secret. The person it's for never learns that it exists. It doesn't show on any screen they can see, nor in widgets, Siri, or Spotlight. "Hide status" hides your gift ideas too, if you're showing your screen to someone.

Gave tells you about something similar

It's easy to plan the same gift as your sister. When you save a gift idea, Gave checks whether anyone else is planning something similar for the same person. If so, you're told: talk to each other before you buy. Gave also tells you when the person has something similar on their wish list. You can then reserve that wish instead, so the others see that it's taken.

On devices with Apple Intelligence, Gave finds similar gifts even when they're written in other words or another language. The search words are made on the device.

Alerts about similar gifts never show the name or the gift on the Lock Screen, so nobody learns anything from a glance at your phone.

When you don't know who it's for

If you see something nice but don't know who it suits yet, save it as a note. Notes are yours alone. Later you can turn the note into a gift idea for a particular person, or put it on your own wish list.

Once the gift is given