Roger Fingas
Apple on Tuesday updated several of its official iOS apps — including the iWork suite — with minor improvements, but most significantly added Apple Watch support to Keynote, allowing remote control of presentations.
The Watch extension is known as Keynote Remote. It was briefly teased during an Apple press event in October last year, but has otherwise flown under the radar. Like Microsoft's newly-available PowerPoint Watch app, users can control presentations on their iPhone, but not on a Mac or iPad.
Other apps updated today include Pages, Numbers, Remote, and Beats Music. All four, though, have only received fixes for bug and stability problems.
Most of Apple's non-bundled iOS apps have yet to receive Watch functions. That's liable to change within the next several days, as the wearable is due to ship on April 24. Apple frequently updates supporting apps in tandem with major hardware or operating system releases.
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I guess that's cool, I imagine support for Mac & iPad will come eventually.
I wonder what's holding up support for iPad and Mac? I'm sure both Apple and Microsoft would love to add support.
The test will be if Tim and Greg use the watch to advance their keynote slides in June instead of the clicker.
If they keynote remote works well, as almost all Apple things do, that is a great addition and functional use case for the Apple Watch
[quote name="GQB" url="/t/185897/apple-updates-several-optional-ios-apps-adds-watch-remote-support-to-keynote#post_2713614"]The test will be if Tim and Greg use the watch to advance their keynote slides in June instead of the clicker.[/quote] not sure i follow...they dont currently use the iPhone support for the same. doesnt mean the feature isnt useful, tho, since not everyone uses a clicker.