AppleInsider Staff
As part of Thursday's macOS Big Sur rollout, Apple has updated its iWork suite productivity apps and GarageBand with a fresh coat of paint.
Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have all been updated with new icons and a "refined" design for Big Sur, which launched today.
The updated productivity suite also includes stability and performance improvements.
GarageBand, Apple's consumer level digital audio workstation, also nets new iconography and a revamped user interface. In addition, the app has been tweaked to improve performance and efficiency on Mac computers powered by Apple silicon.
The GarageBand update also delivers customization of region colors in tracks, 1,800 new Apple Loops spanning a wide variety of genres, and more than 190 new instrument patches and 50 vintage and modern drum kits.
Apple earlier in the day updated Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to make ready for the release of M1 Macs.
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Does anyone uses iWork apps outside a home setting? The apps are really nice but feel so limited without a proper team based / organization based service around it.
I mean - Google Suite is so much better for real world use with coworkers, it integrates with so many services that are individually so much more fulfilling what organizations need. Even Google calendar’s features are much better than Apple calendar.
It’s a shame because on an app level iWork apps are really polished and wonderful to use.
Apple doesn’t want to be cross platform compatible therefore iWorks will remain a niche and a hobby.
As I noted elsewhere iWork, Numbers especially, doesn't need a new set of cloths. Numbers at least needs a more complete feature set, I've not had a lot of luck importing spread sheets. I'm better off on Linux with the software supplied there.