Wesley Hilliard
The iWork Mac apps have been updated to support collaboration via shared iCloud Drive folders, and other new features.
Apple updated their Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps on Mac to support a new iCloud Drive feature for sharing folders. When an iWork document is stored in a shared folder, they will now function as shared documents without any further action.
The feature comes on the heels of Apple releasing iOS 13.4 and macOS 10.15.4, which added the iCloud Drive folder sharing feature.
All documents within the shared iCloud Drive folder are accessible to any user added to the folder. With this new feature, documents from the iWork suite will not only be accessible by users, but editable too, with all the features of collaborated documents.
Apple's iCloud Drive shared folders was a long awaited feature that has shown up in multiple iOS betas before finally being released.
Other updates to the iWork apps include new templates, drop caps, document backgrounds, new shapes, and new export options. Numbers specifically gained increased maximum columns and rows.
Also mentioned in the release notes is a new ability to edit shared documents offline, then populating the document when returning online.
You can find the updated iWork apps in the Mac App Store. So far, the iOS apps have yet to be updated.
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4 Comments
This is great! It's been quite a pain to only can store an iWorks file in the dedicated folder for collaboration. Finally I can choose where to store a file and collaborate. Very much looking forward to this update!
So far I don't see an update in the Canadian store. the iOS version appeared immediately, but not the Mac version.
EDIT: N/M I just discovered that they updated automatically. (I forgot that I'd set that on my Mac.)
This update is irrelevant to me. Since Apple doesn’t like to keep this suite up to date on older Mac OS versions (seemingly not any at all?), I cant update my iOS versions; they need to remain compatible with my desktop Mac OS versions, which are only as recent as High Sierra. I don’t even own a machine capable of going further. Apple don’t sell a machine on which I want to spend my only lump of computer-upgrade savings... or rather, they don’t sell a machine I want *that I can afford* any more...