The Mac versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote and their iOS counterparts now allow text to be styled with gradients and images. Changes varied by app and across platforms, but the lion’s share of the revisions improved the apps’ flexibility, text styling, and image handling capabilities, and, on iOS, Pencil integration.
#IWORK APPS UPDATE#
Also, one Scribble feature that doesn’t work in the iWork suite is the ability to create perfect shapes by pausing before lifting the Pencil after hand drawing one.Īll three of the apps in Apple’s iWork productivity suite received a substantial update this week. Pages’ toolset includes an annotation tool too.Ī particularly nice touch included in Pages that Numbers or Keynote doesn’t have is a message that appears in the body of your document explaining what the selected tool does. The other tools include pens for drawing, one for creating color-filled shapes, and selecting images. Selecting it allows you to handwrite in any of the three iWork apps, which then convert your handwriting into text. The first tool in the palette, which is marked with a capital ‘A,’ is the Scribble tool. On the iPad, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote now all support the feature using a custom version of the PencilKit markup tools found in other apps like Notes and some third-party apps. The feature also allows you to do things like scratch out text with the Pencil to erase it. Scribble is the new iPadOS 14 feature that allows you to use the Apple Pencil to handwrite text into a text field that the app then converts into text. Also, with improved publishing tools and a better iPhone user experience, Pages is far more useful for creating eBooks.Īpple has updated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote with Scribble support, new editable shapes, along with a variety of app-specific updates. Pivot tables aren’t something I expect to use, but they add a new level of sophisticated data analysis that wasn’t possible with Numbers before. The live video and screen sharing features of Keynote are the sort of thing that I expect a lot of people will find useful, especially if presenting remotely. These are bigger updates to the iWork apps than we’ve seen in a while, and especially nice to see that most of the new features are available across all of Apple’s platforms. On the Mac, you can create a new presentation from the app’s Dock icon too. On the iPhone, Keynote supports iOS 15’s ability to drag and drop text and images between apps as well as audio graphs for the visually impaired. Like the other iWork apps, Keynote also supports radar charts, translation of selected text into 11 languages, and the ability of participants of shared presentations to invite new collaborators. There are also new slide controls for navigating slides, controlling video sources, and working with other presenters. If you’re doing a presentation with someone else, the Keynote update lets each participant take turns controlling the presentation. On the Mac, there’s also support for multiple cameras for different viewing angles and adding live feeds of iPhone and iPad screens. Keynote presentations can include live video across all of Apple’s platforms, using the camera in your Mac to display video of you alongside your slides. Keynote presentations can be combined with live video. Selected text can be translated into 11 languages, participants in a shared Pages document can add new collaborators for the first time, and radar charts comparing multiple variables have all been added to Pages on all platforms too.Įxclusive to the Mac, Pages documents can now be created from the app’s Dock icon. On all platforms, Pages has gained improved publishing with two-page spreads, optimized images, and versioning, which should fill some of the gaps left by the fact that iBooks Author has been discontinued. Graph values can be played as audio tones for visually impaired iOS and iPadOS users too. The iPhone version of Pages supports dragging and dropping images and text from other apps into Pages, too, which is a new feature in iOS 15. The iPhone also has a Quick Format bar that lets you change things like paragraph styles, text formatting, alignment, and list styles. As you can see from the screenshot of one of Apple’s built-in templates, Screen View dispenses with the images allowing the user to focus on the text. On the iPhone, Pages supports a new Screen View that makes editing on the smaller screen easier. Quick View (center) focuses on the text of a document to make it easier to edit than the preview, which includes images (right).
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