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

[expiredyogurt]

very useful for when I want to compare prices and need to use formula to calculate the unit price. being able to use the pencil to write it on the iPad is bette than using pen and paper since I still have to do the manual calculations and also I cant filter / sort at the end of the day
if there are any app that can do what im looking for I'd be open to try it out but I needed the excel functions of formula and sorting etc
since I search on my computer I didnt want to alt tab and type it into the spreadsheet so this function should work well for me
the last time I used numbers to do it, I cant undo the autocorrect for the product name which is hella dumb and also the limited number of rows is kinda dumb too. it doesnt auto populate an additional row once I reached the end.
if excel can add this support I'd ditch number already.

 

[sevoneone]

I really hope Apple does this UI enhancement right and it doesn't end up like 3D Touch.

 

[mrr]

It would be great if the Apple Pencil worked on the iPhone.

 

[Ulfric]

It would be great if the Apple Pencil worked on the iPhone.

I am not against the idea, but I think the pencil has to have shorter. I can see myself using it to take notes on OneNote.

 

[Shirasaki]

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

Well, even assuming that one is fixed, number’s formula compatibility with Excel is dodgy. For what I know, number doesn’t use the same formula set as Excel. I did like some design details when writing the formula in numbers but exporting to Excel broke a lot of things.

 

[phillytim]

It's amazing to think that it has now been 10 years since Apple started this incarnation of Pages/Numbers/Keynote, completely wiping the slate of their previous feature-rich iWork generation in 2013.

Some could look back and say no wonder Apple made these apps free at that time; but they are pretty decent apps to get done what a majority of folks need (especially considering the cost of entry into the Apple ecosystem).

 

[kylelerner]

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

Clever pun thank you

 

[bradman83]

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…

Office apps kind of reached feature peak in the mid-2000s and updates since have been more about user interface refinement and online collaboration features. Ironically the most credible challenger to emerge to MS Office has been Google's suite, despite it being significantly more feature-limited and having no OS-native desktop apps.

Apple has a ways to go to in terms of online collaboration features but are users really clamoring for this? The apps largely do what they need to do for their target audience - home users. Maybe the apps holding steady instead of becoming bloated with features many users will never use is a good thing.

 

[msackey]

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.

Oh, is that right?! Didn't know that. I was assuming that there was either an updated Bluetooth protocol that enabled detection of how far the Pencil was from the screen, or that an updated chip on the iPad was needed.

So you mean my 2022 iPad Pro 11-inch model could have gotten the same feature??

 

[Devnul0]

My understanding is the M1 iPad Pro can detect the Pencil tip before it touches, but only much closer to the screen surface, and it doesn't have the hardware to compute the tilt or azimuth of the Pencil, just the location.