Invalid gift please enter a valid recipient email

I'm on with apple care right now as I'm having this same issue. Did you ever get this resolved? I will let you know what I find out.

No fix. Just chiming in with same issue. It's happened to me a few times now. Before I just gave up, but now kinda irritated. : /

Hi. I got mine resolved finally. It was a simple issue. My Apple ID that I was using wasn't using a full email address. For example, the Apple ID was "joeexample". Turns out that Apple wants an Apple ID that is a full email address. For example "joeexample@gmail.com". So, I had to use another Apple ID that I own that actually has a full email address as the Apple ID name. Fortunately, I had one, otherwise I would have had to fix the one I had, which I didn't want to do. You can go to appleid.apple.com and update your Apple ID, which will resolve your issue when trying to gift an application in the App Store to someone. Hope this helps.

I have a full email address as an ID but no joy still getting this same message of invalid recipient email address ??

Interesting. I recommend calling apple care - they stuck with the issue until it was resolved. good luck!

wow thank you so much. Apple support has no idea about this, I've been going back and forth with them for over 2 full weeks. I didn't want to link my Apple ID (which I purchase everything through) with my email originally so I have a separate icloud account for backups/etc. But they're basically forcing you to combine accounts. When I combined my Apple ID with my email on file I could suddenly send a gift. Their error is incorrect as it states there's an invalid email recipient, which is wrong. It's the Apple ID email that needs to be linked with the Apple ID in order to send gifts.