Amber Neely
Apple has updated its iWork suite of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to version 14.0, bringing some minor changes to its productivity software.
All three apps have received identical upgrades for the iPad, iPhone, and Mac.
New streamlined in-app notifications inform users when a person joins in on a collaborative document, making it easy to know who is working with you and when.
Users can press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs. This works on both Mac and iPad, provided the iPad has a connected keyboard and trackpad or mouse.
The productivity suite also preserves file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on an iPhone or iPad.
Apple also notes that the apps have received additional behind-the-scenes stability and performance improvements.
The new versions of the iWork apps require macOS Ventura 13.0, iOS 16.0 or iPadOS 16.0 and later. They are also compatible with visionOS 1.0.
Previously, Apple updated iWork in September 2023. That update brought support for the USDZ format.
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8 Comments
Discontinuous text selection is great. But I miss rectangular selection of text too, handy to select columns that are not in tables.
Wow. Didn’t discontiguous text selection use to be a feature back around 2010?
Pages is fast easy to use and is compatible across the iPhone, iPad and Mac and can open many types of files, however Apple doesn't advertise that ability to much these days like they use to.
Also its layout functions with pictures is nice too along with the dictation feature and it also works well with Notability, and Goodnotes.
It's incredible how slow Apple is to add features to their productivity software, but any updates at all are always good news. :)
I imagine they're primarily working mostly on visionOS versions and integration of whatever "AI" features are coming this summer.
iWorks is a joke. Just another hobby of Apple to keep people in the ecosystem. Only maintenance updates, no cross platform compatibility, zero innovation.