Pages: Create Documents
Write, layout and design
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Create beautiful documents with Pages on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Start with an Apple-designed template for a report, CV, poster or digital book. Easily add images, movies, audio, tables, charts and shapes. Use comments, change tracking and highlights to review your work. On iPhone and iPad, Screen View optimises content for your screen, making it easier to edit.
Get Started Quickly
• Work from iPhone, iPad, Mac, or even a PC with iCloud.com
• Select from a wide variety of Apple-designed templates
• Add from a library of shapes, tables and charts with predefined styles
• Import and edit Microsoft Word and text files
Create Beautiful Documents
• Format your document with gorgeous styles, fonts and textures
• Make your content more engaging with recorded audio, video and image galleries
• Create page templates to keep the design consistent across your page layout document
• Use powerful graphics tools including image background removal and masking
• Design interactive EPUB books that can be shared with others or published to Apple Books
• Draw, write or annotate with Apple Pencil on iPad
Advanced Tools
• Use the table of contents view to easily navigate your document or book
• Add comments and join threaded conversations
• Turn on change tracking to mark up a document as you edit it
• Create footnotes and endnotes, and view character, word and paragraph counts
• Add elegant mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation
• Use presenter mode on iPhone and iPad to auto-scroll text while giving a speech
• Seamless integration with EndNote for inserting citations on Mac*
Share with Anyone
• Share your document publicly or collaborate with specific people using iCloud or Box
• Make changes from any device and see a list of changes from others in real time
• Export your document in EPUB, Microsoft Word, RTF, TXT and PDF format
Apple Intelligence
• Use Writing Tools to proofread, rewrite, summarise and compose text
• Create your own fun images with Image Playground based on a description
* EndNote sold separately. EndNote integration requires a plug-in available from Apple Support.
more It is the most powerful tool that can be used in achieving the job But it needs more improvements in its introducing simple mathematics functions, and introduces more cell formatting formed such as ( check list ) Also the overall color configuration needs to be change and improve . while using this app the temperature speed up quickly and the battery low down rapidly . You can add options to enable delete any empty page easily
It is the most powerful tool that can be used in achieving the job But it needs more improvements in its introducing simple mathematics functions, and introduces more cell formatting formed such as ( check list ) Also the overall color configuration needs to be change and improve . while using this app the temperature speed up quickly and the battery low down rapidly . You can add options to enable delete any empty page easily
Amazing app it makes writing stuff so easy with layouts just there and all I had to do was copy and paste, love it.
Amazing app it makes writing stuff so easy with layouts just there and all I had to do was copy and paste, love it.
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
15.1.1 10 Feb
Pages is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features* in Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform**, all in one simple plan. Creating, viewing and editing documents in Pages, as well as collaborating with others in real time, does not require a subscription.
For Apple Creator Studio Subscribers:
• Make your work stand out with an exclusive new collection of professionally-designed templates
• Explore high-quality photos, graphics and illustrations for your document in the all-new Content Hub
• Find inspiration faster with collections of new Apple-curated content in the Content Hub
• Create stunning images and graphics directly in your document, apply quick edits or adjust the style using AI
• Increase the clarity and detail of existing images and graphics using Super Resolution
• Use Auto Crop to generate suggestions for how to frame your image
• Collaborate on larger files shared via iCloud – now up to 4GB
Other New Features:
• Experience a new, more fluid way to work on your documents with Liquid Glass
• Access the full set of advanced options and controls straight from the new menu bar in iPadOS 26
• Add personality to your work with new editable shapes
* Some features of Apple Creator Studio require an Apple Intelligence–capable device. For full system requirements and usage limits for Apple Creator Studio intelligence features, see Apple Support article 125029.
** Premium content and features in Freeform are not currently available and are expected to be included in the Apple Creator Studio subscription later this year.
15.1 28 Jan
• Screen View on iPad displays text, images and other elements in a continuous flow optimised to fit your screen
• Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your document (requires Apple Intelligence and iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
• Add additional pages into a word processing document more easily
• Export documents into other formats using Shortcuts (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
• Improved copy and paste with Freeform (requires iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
14.4 03/04/2025
• Proofread, rewrite, summarise and compose text for your document with Writing Tools*
• Create fun, original images for your document with Image Playground*
• Siri can use ChatGPT to answer questions about content in your document*
* Requires Apple Intelligence
14.3 12/12/2024
• Squeeze Apple Pencil Pro to quickly switch tools, line weights and colours.
• Use the new document browser to easily create a new document or find a recent one. (Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18)
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.
14.2 17/09/2024
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
14.1 10/06/2024
• On iPad, press and hold the Command key on a connected keyboard to select non-contiguous words, sentences or paragraphs using a trackpad or mouse
• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative document for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• Additional stability and performance improvements
14.0 02/04/2024
• Bring new dimension to your documents with 3D objects in USDZ format
• Make your documents more expressive by adding Stickers*
• See inline predictions for text as you type*
• Easily begin collaborating on a document with others while on a FaceTime call*
• Find and open suggested documents when searching for Pages with Spotlight*
• Drag documents to the Pages icon on your Home Screen to open or import them*
• Use the new Minimalist Report template featuring elegant typography, colours and layout
• Style paragraphs with new options for borders and background colours
• Remove external borders on charts imported from Microsoft Office files
* Requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or later
13.2 21/09/2023
• Start writing in Notes, then open your note in Pages to continue editing with powerful design and layout features
• Create business reports, school essays and greetings cards with updated templates
• Insert date and time fields into your document
• Add scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to your documents and preserve visual quality at any size
• Break apart imported SVG images and save them to your shapes library for future use
• Retain SVG images when exporting books into EPUB format, including book cover art
• Show subtotal summary labels in stacked bar, column and area charts
• Insert and play ProRes videos in your document, now on iPhone and iPad
• Export the pages of your document as image files
13.1 13/06/2023
• Apple Pencil hover makes it easy to navigate, write, sketch and illustrate with greater precision on supported iPad models
• Export and send a copy of your document in a different format straight from the Share menu
• Templates for reports, notes, letters and CVs now include placeholder text with instructions
• Includes improvements and bug fixes for mail merge and collaboration activity
13.0 30/03/2023
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.
12.2.1 29/11/2022
• An all-new activity view shows recent changes in collaborative documents, including when people join, comment and make edits
• Get notifications when others join or make changes in your shared documents
• Share a document in Messages to instantly start collaborating with your team and see updates in the Messages conversation (Requires iOS 16 or iPadOS 16)
• Send a message or start a FaceTime call straight from a collaborative document (Requires iOS 16 or iPadOS 16)
• The new Blank Layout template makes it easy to start documents that let you freely arrange text and graphics
• Be even more productive on iPad with iPadOS 16
- Quickly insert objects and get to your favourite tools with the customisable toolbar
- Find common actions like print, rename and more in the new document menu
- Work across multiple documents more easily with Stage Manager on supported iPad models
• A new option lets you automatically remove an image’s background to isolate its subject (Requires iOS 16 or iPadOS 16)
• Style charts with additional controls for colours, lines and number formats
12.2 25/10/2022
- Use mail merge to quickly create personalised letters, cards and envelopes for multiple recipients
- Select from stylish new templates for event invitations and student certificates
- Export your Pages documents as TXT files
12.1 21/06/2022
• Publish directly to Apple Books with larger file sizes up to 2GB
• Insert page numbers anywhere in your document
• Edit font size more precisely with up to two decimal places
• Quickly start writing a new document on iPhone — just touch and hold the Pages app icon on the Home Screen
• Read comments and track changes using VoiceOver
12.0 07/04/2022
• Screen View on iPhone automatically displays text, images and other elements in a continuous flow optimised to fit your screen so documents are even easier to read and edit
• Improved book publishing with 2-page spreads, optimised images and more flexible versioning
• Quick Format bar on iPhone lets you quickly change paragraph styles, text formatting, alignment, list styles and more
• Drag and drop to copy text, images and other items between apps on iPhone*
• Instant translation lets you translate selected text in up to 11 languages and add the translation to your document with a tap**
• Flexible collaboration allows participants to add others to a shared document**
• Radar charts help you visually compare multiple variables at once to easily show similarities and differences in your data
• Audio graph makes charts accessible to people with vision impairments by playing an audio tone that changes pitch to represent different values**
* Requires iOS 15
** Requires iOS 15 or iPadOS 15
11.2 28/09/2021
• Link to web pages, email addresses and phone numbers from objects such as shapes, lines, images, drawings or text boxes
• Teachers using the Schoolwork app to assign activities in Pages can now view student progress, including word count and time spent
11.1 01/06/2021
• Precise editing controls in the Arrange Inspector for adjusting the look and placement of objects
• Onscreen keypads for entering exact values for text size, spacing, table size and more
• Ability to add or remove objects or table cells from a selection by tapping or dragging across them
• Setting to always open documents in edit mode
• Ability to add phone number links to table cells, text objects and shapes
11.0 23/03/2021
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
10.3.9 14/01/2021
• Stability and performance improvements
10.3.5 12/11/2020
• Use Scribble to write by hand with Apple Pencil and your words will automatically convert to text. Requires iPadOS 14.
• Select from new report templates to help you get started.
• Enhance your documents with a variety of new, editable shapes.
• Easily find pictures and videos using new zoom and search capabilities in the redesigned image picker. Requires iOS 14 or iPadOS 14.
10.2 22/09/2020
• Use the new reading view to scroll and zoom your documents without unintentional edits.
• Play YouTube and Vimeo videos in your documents.*
• Easily add captions and titles to images, videos, shapes and other objects.
* May not be available in all regions.
10.1 09/07/2020
• Use Pages on an iPad with Magic Keyboard, a mouse or a trackpad for a new way to work with your documents. Requires iPadOS 13.4.
• Select from a variety of gorgeous new templates to help you get started.
• Add a Pages document to a shared iCloud Drive folder to automatically start collaborating. Requires iPadOS 13.4 or iOS 13.4.
• Add a drop cap to make a paragraph stand out with a large, decorative first letter.
• Apply a colour, gradient or image to the background of any document.
• Touch and hold, then drag across multiple objects to select them.
• Easily access recently used templates in a redesigned template chooser.
• Print or export a PDF of your document with comments included.
• Edit shared documents while offline and your changes will upload when you’re back online. Requires iPadOS or iOS 13 or later.
• Enhance your documents with a variety of new, editable shapes.
10.0 31/03/2020
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
5.2.1 14/11/2019
• Enable Dark Mode to emphasise your content.*
• On iPadOS, use Pages in multiple spaces or edit two documents side by side in Split View.
• Support for new iOS 13 and iPadOS text editing and navigation gestures.*
• Set the default font and font size used for all new documents created from basic templates.
• Use custom fonts installed from the App Store.*
• Capture a screenshot of an entire document, mark it up, then easily share it as a PDF.*
• Access files from a USB drive, external hard drive or file server.*
• Listen to an audio representation of your chart using VoiceOver.*
• Add accessibility descriptions to audio, video and drawings.
• Improved accessibility of exported PDFs.
• Support for HEVC-formatted films, enabling reduced file size while preserving visual quality.
• Select multiple objects by pressing Shift or Command on a hardware keyboard.
*Requires iOS 13 or iPadOS
5.2 30/09/2019
•Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles.
•Customise lists by choosing from new bullet types, changing the size and colour of bullets, creating custom bullets, adjusting indentation levels and more.
•Choose Learn Spelling to add a word to the spelling dictionary.
•Create links from text to other pages in a page layout document.
•Copy and paste pages or sections between documents.
•Use new chart editing capabilities to change the style of individual series, adjust spacing between columns, add trendlines and more.
•Adjust the appearance of cell borders in tables.
•Place images, shapes and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.
•Choose whether Apple Pencil is used for drawing or to select and scroll — or toggle between these options via double tap using a supported Apple Pencil.
•Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.
•Reapply a master page so text and media placeholders return to their default style and position.
•Create books using new templates for novels (available in English only).
5.1 25/06/2019
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
more Version 15.1.1 10 Feb
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