Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Apps for iPad Now Support Apple Pencil Hover

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps for iPad with Apple Pencil hover support. Apple says this feature "makes it easy to navigate, write, sketch, and illustrate with greater precision" on the latest 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

The latest iPad Pro models can detect the second-generation Apple Pencil while it hovers up to 12mm above the display, allowing users to preview their drawing before they make it. And for the Scribble feature, which converts handwriting to text on the iPad, text fields automatically expand when the Apple Pencil is hovered over the screen.

Apple Pencil hover gained tilt and azimuth support with iPadOS 16.4, released earlier this week. Apple discussed the feature in a recent interview.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote received a few other improvements on both iOS and macOS, including bug fixes and the ability to export and send a copy of a document, spreadsheet, or presentation in a different format from the Share menu. The updates are available for free on the App Store and Mac App Store.

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[Mousse]

It would take a masochist bean counter of the highest order to want to used an Apple Pencil with Numbers. What? They're gonna write the numbers into the cell old school?😵

 

[kylelerner]

My Apple Pencil 2 completely died the moment after upgrading my iPad Pro to iOS16. This isn’t write.

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

My Apple Pencil 2 completely died the moment after upgrading my iPad Pro to iOS16. This isn’t write.

"This isn't write"? Was that a clever pun or a bad spell check?

 

[Verified Whiskey]

This is a really cool technology. I love that it was already built into the Apple Pencil and didn’t need new hardware for it! Just new hardware for the iPads. Amazing.

 

[adrianlondon]

"This isn't write"? Was that a clever pun or a bad spell check?

It was his keynote speech. He wrote pages, but his number's up.

 

[jonnyb098]

6 months later…. Cool

 

[phillytim]

More beneficial may be the new “Export and Send”, which makes it way easier to convert to Word/PDF/etc and share in one step—a long-overdue ease-of-use feature.

 

[hagar]

Remember the days when Apple added cool features to iWorks? So that you wanted to use it over MS Office, but most of the time you couldn’t because of school or work.

But now it seems to have mostly faded into the background…

 

[MrGimper]

This is a really cool technology. I love that it was already built into the Apple Pencil and didn’t need new hardware for it! Just new hardware for the iPads. Amazing.

Didn’t some accessibility feature prove that zero new hardware was needed as this sort of functionally was already present in the M1 iPad?

 

[ctg7w6]

No Tim, this will still not get me to upgrade my M1 iPad to an M2.

 

[BWhaler]

Nice updates. iWork remains some of my favorite software that Apple makes.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Remember the days when Apple added cool features to iWorks? So that you wanted to use it over MS Office, but most of the time you couldn’t because of school or work.

But now it seems to have mostly faded into the background…

I live in Excel at work but all of my personal finances are managed in Numbers on my iPad. I like the ability to use multiple tables on a single tab and have them nicely separated as their own entities.

 

[headlessmike]

Remember the days when Apple added cool features to iWorks? So that you wanted to use it over MS Office, but most of the time you couldn’t because of school or work.

But now it seems to have mostly faded into the background…

They add nice features to the apps pretty regularly. People always comment on how good my ”PowerPoint” presentations look before I tell them that I don’t use PowerPoint. The updates just don’t get the fanfare they did when they were a paid, yearly affair.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

They add nice features to the apps pretty regularly. People always comment on how good my ”PowerPoint” presentations look before I tell them that I don’t use PowerPoint. The updates just don’t get the major fanfare that they did when updates a were a paid, yearly affair.

I miss the iLife sections of MWSF. Just a huge differentiator when compared to the Windows world. Apple made video editing, audio editing, and DVD burning available to the masses in a way that was super simple to do and fun to use.

 

[maxoakland]

Why did it take so long?

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

After saving the files, does it lock out all versions of the apps but latest being able to open them… thus forcing upgrades on all machines… which typically forces os upgrades too?

 

[User 6502]

This is a really cool technology. I love that it was already built into the Apple Pencil and didn’t need new hardware for it! Just new hardware for the iPads. Amazing.

No new hardware was ever required on the iPads either. It could easily be enabled in older iPads too, the only amazing thing here is apple greed and the extent of their contempt for their own customers.

 

[txscott]

Easy export is good. Now, just let me use .xlsx files natively without importing or exporting them. I'm done with Office at that point. If I need to share a file it needs to be in .xlsx, full stop. Nothing else gets the job done.

I think/hope this is coming, just get it done already.

 

[AppleTO]

This took quite a while.

 

[adib]

It would take a masochist bean counter of the highest order to want to used an Apple Pencil with Numbers. What? They're gonna write the numbers into the cell old school?😵

Most likely the masochist bean counter will use it to annotate a spreadsheet made by their minions. It's to write large exclamation marks and expressions of profanities.

 

[SAIRUS]

 

[Shirasaki]

Last time I use numbers, the inability to automatically extend the range of its worksheet through entering content turned me off immediately and I never looked back since.
This is what happens when a bean counter leads the company instead of someone who either can convince other folks or himself/herself had a clear vision to the future.

Remember the days when Apple added cool features to iWorks? So that you wanted to use it over MS Office, but most of the time you couldn’t because of school or work.

But now it seems to have mostly faded into the background…

Yeah, few mention and fewer use those software even if Apple has since given them away for free (and preinstall on all brand new macs). Sometimes, “free” =/= people will use them in droves.

 

[svish]

Good update. Maybe the next iPad Pro refresh will come with a new Pencil and will have some new features.

 

[Nermal]

Last time I use numbers, the inability to automatically extend the range of its worksheet through entering content turned me off immediately and I never looked back since.

For what it's worth, that's been fixed.