Apple has lifted the hood on its iWork suite of productivity apps and given them an Apple Intelligence update. Unsurprisingly, Apple’s Writing tools function gets shoved into Pages and Keynote with Numbers getting a number of new features bringing closer to the elephant on the spreadsheet room, Excel.
Apple’s release notes provide a summary of the new features.
New features in Keynote
- Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your presentation (requires Apple Intelligence and iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
- Export presentations into other formats using Shortcuts (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
- Improved copy and paste with Freeform (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
New features in Numbers
- Use over 30 new advanced functions including LET, LAMBDA, FILTER, SORT, and UNIQUE
- See results from a single formula across multiple cells using spilling arrays
- Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your spreadsheet (requires Apple Intelligence and iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
- Export spreadsheets into other formats using Shortcuts (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
- Improved copy and paste with Freeform (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
- Improved compatibility when importing or exporting Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
New features in Pages
- Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your document (requires Apple Intelligence and macOS 15.4)
- Add additional pages into a word-processing document more easily
Export documents into other formats using Shortcuts (requires macOS - 15.4)
- Improved copy and paste with Freeform (requires macOS 15.4)
You’ll find the updates in the App Store for macOS, iPadOS and iOS.
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