Apple updates iWork, iMovie for iOS & Mac, GarageBand for iOS

Apple on Wednesday released a slew of updates to its iWork suite of Mac and iOS productivity apps, the more important changes affecting GarageBand and iMovie.

iMovie for iOS now supports external displays when connected to 2018 iPad Pros, whether for mirroring or fullscreen previews while editing. Those tablets additionally support uncompressed 4K output.

The Mac edition of the software has actually lost a feature, namely sharing straight to Facebook. In its place is "Prepare for Facebook," which exports a compatible video that must be uploaded separately.

GarageBand for iOS adds a Wah stompbox and Face Control to the Smart Guitar tool, and enables support for "Smart" and Bluetooth keyboards.

The Mac and iOS editions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have likewise been updated, but mostly with performance and stability fixes. The one exception is Pages, which now publish straight to Apple Books.

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All of the updates can be downloaded free from the Mac and iOS App Stores.

12 Comments

lkrupp 20 Years · 10521 comments

About 6 years ago

So macOS has disabled all Facebook sharing but iOS continues to allow it. WHY?

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spheric 10 Years · 2728 comments

About 6 years ago

lkrupp said:

So macOS has disabled all Facebook sharing but iOS continues to allow it. WHY?

That's a misrepresentation of what's happening.

On macOS, Apple was providing the Facebook integration and have successively removed it from the OS and now from their apps.

On iOS, the Facebook App provides the upload functionality into the Sharing menu.

On my iPhone, where I do not have the Facebook app installed, there is no option to share directly to Facebook from iMovie.

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sflocal 17 Years · 6154 comments

About 6 years ago

spheric said:

lkrupp said:

So macOS has disabled all Facebook sharing but iOS continues to allow it. WHY?

That's a misrepresentation of what's happening.

On macOS, Apple was providing the Facebook integration and have successively removed it from the OS and now from their apps.

On iOS, the Facebook App provides the upload functionality into the Sharing menu.

On my iPhone, where I do not have the Facebook app installed, there is no option to share directly to Facebook from iMovie.

I totally understand why Apple removed the Facebook hooks. Why should/would Apple take time and effort into maintaining an interface to another company's API? I use iMovie often, and use FB and I never used the upload to FB directly. I always created the file first and then did a separate upload.

The more hooks like this that Apple removes, the better. I don't want all these social-media hooks engrained into MacOS. Keep it as vanilla as possible.

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SpamSandwich 20 Years · 32917 comments

About 6 years ago

Authors can now publish directly to Apple Books from Pages. Pretty neat!

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razorpit 18 Years · 1793 comments

About 6 years ago

sflocal said:
I totally understand why Apple removed the Facebook hooks. Why should/would Apple take time and effort into maintaining an interface to another company's API? I use iMovie often, and use FB and I never used the upload to FB directly. I always created the file first and then did a separate upload.
The more hooks like this that Apple removes, the better. I don't want all these social-media hooks engrained into MacOS. Keep it as vanilla as possible.

Agreed. I thought it was extremely tacky when they first worked it in to the (Mac) OS.