Apple just gave its iWork suite a serious upgrade—and it’s not just cosmetic. With the release of version 14.4 of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on April 3, 2025, Apple is bringing a wave of new functionality powered by Apple Intelligence, the company’s in-house AI framework. The update, which lands alongside iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4, adds long-awaited features that make creating, editing, and sharing content more powerful—and intuitive—than ever.
✍️ Smarter Writing with Apple Intelligence
The biggest headline here? AI-powered Writing Tools are now baked into the iWork apps. Users can now call on Apple Intelligence to rewrite, refine, or polish their text directly within documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Whether you’re drafting a business proposal in Pages or writing slide copy in Keynote, AI tools can now help you punch up your message or simplify complex paragraphs—all with just a few taps.
While Apple has remained more privacy-conscious than its competitors in the AI space, these new additions mark a clear step forward in making machine learning a central part of the productivity experience.
🔒 Note: Apple Intelligence features require a device running iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, or macOS 15.4, and are available only on select hardware.
⚡️ Streamlined Workflows with Shortcuts Integration
Another major improvement: users can now export Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files into different formats using the Shortcuts app. This is a huge win for automators and power users, letting you instantly convert documents to PDFs, Word files, or even image formats as part of custom Shortcuts workflows.
Whether you’re batch-exporting reports, formatting slide decks, or integrating with third-party apps, this is the kind of behind-the-scenes upgrade that significantly boosts day-to-day efficiency.
📋 Improved Freeform Support
Apple also gave some attention to Freeform, the collaborative whiteboard app. With version 14.4, iWork users can copy and paste content between Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Freeform more seamlessly. It’s a small change on paper—but a big deal for creative teams juggling ideas, visuals, and layouts across apps.
🎥 3D Objects and Beyond
Let’s not forget the USDZ 3D file support introduced in earlier updates (version 13.2), which allowed users to drop dynamic, animated 3D objects into presentations and documents. In Keynote, you can even use Magic Move to animate 3D transitions between slides—bringing a cinematic flair to your next pitch or keynote (lowercase “k” or not).
🧠 The Bigger Picture
While the iWork suite has long lived in the shadow of Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, Apple has steadily made it more integrated, elegant, and powerful for its own ecosystem. These latest updates—especially the use of on-device intelligence and automation—signal a quiet but confident evolution.
For Apple users, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote just got a lot more capable. And if you’re all-in on the Apple ecosystem, there’s never been a better time to take a second look at the apps that have been sitting in your Dock all along.
📥 Available Now
Version 14.4 of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote is available as a free update on the App Store for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.