Apple Updates iWork Apps for iOS With Support for Scribble, New Image Picker, Editable Shapes and More

[iMi]

Apple Keynote is light years ahead of PowerPoint. Now with this update you can play YouTube/Vimeo videos! Can’t remember if you can play YouTube videos in PowerPoint.

PowerPoint has improved considerably and I would say surpassed Keynote in some regards. I’ve used both extensively.

 

[iMi]

Why wouldn't you be able to?

You don't.

Technically you can by logging into iCloud with a browser.

 

[amartinez1660]

Apple Keynote is light years ahead of PowerPoint. Now with this update you can play YouTube/Vimeo videos! Can’t remember if you can play YouTube videos in PowerPoint.

Or if it does: it might not play while in the middle of a presentation, or go suddenly full screen if you wanted it on a side, or go to a side if you wanted it full screen, or skip to the next slide without the video finishing first.

Because, I don’t know why, the settings and behaviors with Microsoft tend do be never the common sense ones. Case in point, OneNote is a great software that always pwns me, lines and arrows are not in the “Draw” tab section, it’s on the “Insert” tab.

I mean, it makes a bit of sense, you could make a case that “shapes are not DRAWN they are INSERTED”... but damn.

And let’s not talk about Outlook, the UX of that was designed by using feet and not crafty hands.

 

[BaltimoreMediaBlog]

Not for Mojave. You have to go swim with Natalie Wood at Catalina for this at your own risk.

What is it with Apple recklessly abandoning support for their software for previous operating systems?
You cannot tell me there is something here that cannot be done in Mojave! BOOOOO!

 

[FilmIndustryGuy]

How do you write in pages? It only lets me use pencil to scroll around the page

 

[macdogpro]

How do you write in pages? It only lets me use pencil to scroll around the page

Tap three dots on the upper right corner.
Tap Apple Pencil. Make sure select and scroll is off. Or you can turn on double tap the pencil to switch both options.

 

[FilmIndustryGuy]

Tap three dots on the upper right corner.
Tap Apple Pencil. Make sure select and scroll is off. Or you can turn on double tap the pencil to switch both options.

Thank you I spent 25 min going through every option trying to figure it out.

 

[dcdandan]

They were paid apps! They were 80 bucks... then reduced to $20 in the Mac and $10 in iPhone EACH...
Even iMovie and Garage Band you had to pay for them, then they made it free for new iPhones and Macs, later (only a couple of years ago) for older devices free as well.

u guys are both right but to be fair it has been free for a while

 

[johnl1275]

Waiting for Numbers to be able to run a pivot tables. For me, that is the primary thing it is missing.

 

[FilmIndustryGuy]

hey guys now with this writing feature, is the app Nebu useless? I bought that app before this but haven't played with it enough. it was the best writing app in the App Store and it sure is accurate.

 

[UKBeast]

As a long time Excel user, I’ve found that Numbers is fine for basic to slightly advanced tasks. It does “record” filtering, complex formulas, vlookups, hlookups, etc. It works very well with large data sets which is what I use it for primarily. It imports and exports to CSV. It has successfully imported every Excel spreadsheet I’ve tried it on. It does many things which I’ve never tried yet. I especially like its iCloud integration which, last time I checked, Excel did not have. And I really didn’t want to subscribe to Office 360.

For the files i work numbers is a pretty enough software but my issue is we are using pc in the company and it is ms office installed. There is no pc version of numbers and All files i get i edit from collegues are excel files. So compability is the key answer.

in comparisan google spreadsheets offers far better compability than numbers with ms files.

 

[glindon]

I want to use forms but my documents are shared with my employees and forms won’t work with shared documents. How stupid is that.

Is this with shared collaboration turned on within Numbers? Or just the file in a shared folder? I think only iOS has forms. Numbers Mac doesn’t have forms even on my not shared spreadsheet that I just tested. The sheets I share with my employees don’t have forms in them but I’m going to add one and test it out tomorrow.

 

[Patriks7]

I've always loved Pages. It's so much better for me. Word can do a lot more, but unless your a power user using most of the features, I think its probably better and easier to use than Word. Plus you can export it as a `.doc` and remain compatible with the rest of the world. At my last job they insisted that everyone use Word, I never even installed it and my bosses never knew.

This. It’s very simple to use but it can still get a lot done. I don’t know how it is nowadays, but some years back when I still had to share loads of docs at university, there were quite some compatibility issues with .doc.

 

[ian87w]

iWork is this amazing piece of software that I forget about until that one person shares a keynote file and a dozen people email me asking how they can open it in PowerPoint.

That’s so true. There’s always that one person in the team that suddenly shared his/her .pages document and expected everybody else to just work on it.

This is why I always push people to just use Google Docs. 99% of the works that most people do don’t actually need any fancy features from Word or Pages. Google Docs made it much easier to collaborate.

 

[hagar]

If there’s one feature Apple should copy from Office, it’s the format painter. Copy pasting and then using the format painter (the brush icon) to make sure everything has the same format, is so much easier than in Pages.

 

[applenerd600]

If there’s one feature Apple should copy from Office, it’s the format painter. Copy pasting and then using the format painter (the brush icon) to make sure everything has the same format, is so much easier than in Pages.

Absolutely! That would be a lot easier for users.

 

[sdz]

they jumped from version 6 to 10. Interesting, but why? Major rewrite?

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Apple Keynote is light years ahead of PowerPoint. Now with this update you can play YouTube/Vimeo videos! Can’t remember if you can play YouTube videos in PowerPoint.

This is one of the most significant features missing from Keynote that was available on PPT for more than a decade. I know this was possible since at least PPT 2007 when YouTube was still on flash. I'm so glad this is finally added since I use Keynote almost exclusively and having to download videos is a big annoyance.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

they jumped from version 6 to 10. Interesting, but why? Major rewrite?

I’m guessing Catalyst-ized. The iOS and macOS versions USED to have different version numbers. Now, they’re all aligned.

 

[Kleber20]

Can you back up these iWork documents, say a numbers file, up on an regular USB stick as you could with an excel/word file?
What happens when you then want to open it on Windows?

BOOOOM!

 

[cgsnipinva]

I like that the iWorks suite is now free (they weren’t a few years ago) but they are so behind other suites, I wish Apple invested more on them to at least be on par with the competition.

iWork is not that far behind. Keynote and Pages is very comparable to PowerPoint and Word. Numbers is not as advanced as Excel, however they have been adding more and more complex formulas and improving maximum table size to the same size as Excel. So for most users - iWork can do about 90-95% of what Office can do.

 

[lexvo]

Pages and Numbers are not bad, but they don't work on networks shares (SMB) anymore for me. I constantly get save errors. All my other apps (Excel, Word, Finder, Lightroom, PDF Expert, etc...) are working perfectly, so I assume it is something in Pages/Numbers.

Last year I had a similar problem, which could be solved by saving as a single file (the other option is save as package). Alas that is not working anymore.

 

[Victor Mortimer]

It’s amazing how much more robust and intuitive Newton was than iPad + Apple Pencil. After 30 years, Apple somehow managed to regress in this area. Compared to Newton, scribble is half baked and really confusing. As far as I can tell, I can’t delete a single character, deleting objects isn’t possible, I can’t select objects (I have to use my finger??), object recognition is more limited than Newton, I can’t easily convert handwriting to text, using Notes with pencil is confusing as hell, and on and on. Apple really screwed this up. All they had to do was adopt Newton’s gestures and UX.

Newton sucked.

There, I said it, the thing we were all thinking. Handwriting recognition was, is, and will always be a TERRIBLE way to input data into a device.

This is at least better than Newton, because it has a keyboard you can use like a sane person.

Handwriting recognition is a bug, not a feature.

 

[jmgregory1]

Except Keynote is not dumbed down and it's far better than Powerpoint, and it's been this way for well over 10 years.

I’m not a PowerPoint or Keynote user - I despise these types of presentations, as they often feel like something created by and for MBA’s and those working for private equity firms who think they’re effective.

 

[Maconplasma]

I’m not a PowerPoint or Keynote user - I despise these types of presentations, as they often feel like something created by and for MBA’s and those working for private equity firms who think they’re effective.

Well I was only posting a rebuttal to your post stating that Powerpoint was better than Keynote when it simply isn't true by a long shot.