Apple Updates iWork Mac and iOS Apps With Support for OS X El Capitan and iOS 9

Thursday October 15, 2015 1:37 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today updated its three iWork apps for the Mac, adding new features and OS X El Capitan support to Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. All three apps now support the new Split View multitasking feature in OS X El Capitan, allowing them to be used side-by-side with another app while in fullscreen mode.

There are also new Force Touch gestures in each of the apps, which work with the new Force Touch Magic Trackpad and the trackpad in the Retina MacBook Pro and the 12-inch MacBook. In all three of the apps, a Force click on an image will allow them to be edited, and this Force gesture has built-in haptic feedback.

Keynote and Pages have gained support for opening presentations and documents from 2006 and 2008 versions of the software, while Numbers is now able to open Numbers '08 spreadsheets. Shared Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents can now be previewed on iOS and Android browsers.

Apple has also updated its iWork apps for iOS, notably adding split-screen multitasking support on the iPad and support for 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. On the iPad, the three apps have also gained new Multi-Touch gestures for selecting text, a new Shortcut Bar that provides quick access to formatting tools, and new keyboard shortcuts when connected to a wireless keyboard.

Each of the iWork apps has also received a long list of other minor feature improvements and updates that are available in both the iOS and Mac versions of the software. A full list of the improvements can be found on Apple's dedicated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote website.

Apple's line of iWork apps are free to users who have recently purchased a new Mac or iOS device. Otherwise, each iWork app for Mac is available for $19.99 while each iWork app for iOS is available for $9.99.

Pages for Mac - [Mac App Store]
Keynote for Mac - [Mac App Store]
Numbers for Mac - [Mac App Store]

Pages for iOS - [App Store]
Keynote for iOS - [App Store]
Numbers for iOS - [App Store]

Update: Apple has also removed the "beta" label from its iWork for iCloud apps.

Tags: iWork, Pages, Keynote, Numbers

Top Rated Comments

busyscott

72 months ago

I feel like this should have been supported from day one.

Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)

dilap

72 months ago

That awkward moment when a third party releases updates for your new OS before you do....

Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Jamalien

72 months ago

It's a shame Microsoft updated their apps before Apple.

Office is STILL a glitchy pile of **** on el capitan tho, whereas pages has been working flawlessly since day one even before this update.

Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)

KALLT

72 months ago

Does anyone even care about iWork? Office365 is blowing apples productivity suite out of the water.

Office365 also costs money. ;-)

Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)

acctman

72 months ago

Apple has been updating like a mad man. I'm not sure if I can get use to being spoiled like this.

Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)

coolfactor

72 months ago

It's a shame Microsoft updated their apps before Apple.

Didn't MS Office come out very buggy on El Capitan? Apple took some extra time to make sure their apps were stable. How is that a bad thing?

Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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