Keynote: Design Presentations
Build and present your story
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Create memorable presentations on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. Start with an Apple-designed theme and add text, images, charts and shapes. Bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions. Confidently present from anywhere, in person or virtually, and take turns controlling a presentation in multi-presenter slideshows.
Get Started Quickly
• Work from iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, or even a PC with iCloud.com
• Select from a wide variety of Apple-designed themes
• Import and edit Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
Create Stunning Presentations
• Easily change slide layouts and backgrounds
• Add recorded audio, live video and image galleries
• Use powerful graphics tools including background removal and masking
• Draw or write with Apple Pencil on iPad
Cinema-Quality Animations
• Beautiful cinematic slide transitions and impressive animations
• Emphasis builds and Magic Move let you effortlessly add impact
• See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides
• Draw a motion path with Apple Pencil on iPad
Present to Your Audience
• Rehearse with a customisable presenter display
• Practise in an immersive Conference Room or Theatre environment on Apple Vision Pro
• Highlight with Apple Pencil or with your finger while presenting on iPad
• Control your slideshow from an iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch
Share with Anyone
• Share your presentation 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 presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, movies and image files
Apple Intelligence
• Use Writing Tools to proofread, rewrite, summarise and compose text
• Create your own fun images with Image Playground based on a description
more This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
15.1.1 10 Feb
Keynote 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 presentations in Keynote, as well as collaborating 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 themes
• Explore high-quality photos, graphics and illustrations for your presentation 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
• Transform a text outline into a first draft of slides for a new or existing presentation (beta)
• Automatically generate presenter notes based on context from your presentation (beta)
• Quickly clean up your slide’s layout, spacing, alignment and typography (beta)
• Collaborate on larger files shared via iCloud – now up to 4GB
Other New Features:
• Experience a new, more fluid way to work on your presentations with Liquid Glass
• Access the full set of advanced options and controls straight from the new menu bar in iPadOS 26
• Make text and other objects pop with extra brightness and vibrant colour using HDR on supported displays
• 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
• Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your presentation (requires Apple Intelligence and iOS or iPadOS 18.4)
• Export presentations 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 presentation with Writing Tools*
• Create fun, original images for your presentation with Image Playground*
• Siri can use ChatGPT to answer questions about content in your presentation*
* Requires Apple Intelligence
14.3 12/12/2024
• Advance your slides hands-free with the double-tap gesture on supported Apple Watch models. (Requires watchOS 11)
• See HDR images and movies in greater dynamic range on supported devices. (Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18)
• Squeeze Apple Pencil Pro to quickly switch tools, line weights and colours.
• Use the new document browser to easily create a new presentation 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
• Add a new look to your slides with the Dynamic Colour, Minimalist Light and Minimalist Dark themes
• Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative presentation for the first time
• Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad
• 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
• Improved compatibility for slide transitions when importing and exporting Microsoft PowerPoint files
• Additional stability and performance improvements
14.0 02/04/2024
• Bring new dimension to your presentations with 3D objects in USDZ format
• Play embedded animations within USDZ files or use Magic Move to animate 3D objects across slides
• Make your presentations more expressive by adding Stickers*
• See inline predictions for text as you type*
• Easily begin collaborating on a presentation with others while on a FaceTime call*
• Find and open suggested presentations when searching for Keynote with Spotlight*
• Drag documents to the Keynote icon on your Home Screen to open or import them*
• Add motion to your presentation with new dynamic themes and live video slide layouts
• Export your presentation in ProRes formats, now on iPhone and iPad
• Remove external borders on charts imported from Microsoft Office files
* Requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or later
13.2 21/09/2023
• Insert and play ProRes videos in your presentation, now on iPhone and iPad
• Add scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to your presentations and preserve visual quality at any size
• Break apart imported SVG images and save them to your shapes library for future use
• Show subtotal summary labels in stacked bar, column and area charts
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 presentation in a different format straight from the Share menu
• Includes improvements and bug fixes for collaboration activity
• Viewing a Keynote Live presentation is now supported only in a web browser
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 presentations, including when people join, comment and make edits
• Get notifications when others join or make changes in your shared presentations
• Share a presentation 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 presentation (Requires iOS 16 or iPadOS 16)
• 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 presentations 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)
• Remove or replace the background of live video for a dramatic effect
• Style charts with additional controls for colours, lines and number formats
• Additional options for printing and exporting PDFs
12.2 25/10/2022
- Add subtle movement and visual interest to your presentation with dynamic backgrounds that move continuously as you transition from slide to slide
- Select from new animated themes featuring dynamic backgrounds
- Skip or unskip all slides in a collapsed group
12.1 21/06/2022
• Enlarge slides to a maximum zoom level of 400%
• Edit font size more precisely with up to two decimal places
12.0 07/04/2022
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Live video makes presentations even more engaging by letting you use the camera in your iPhone or iPad to show yourself on your slides — in a window or full screen
• Multi-presenter slideshows allow participants to take turns controlling a shared presentation from their own device
• New slideshow controls provide easy access to the slide navigator, keyboard shortcuts, live video sources or multi-presenter controls while presenting
• Radar charts help you visually compare multiple variables at once to easily show similarities and differences in your data
• Drag and drop to copy text, images and other items between apps on iPhone*
• Flexible collaboration allows participants to add others to a shared presentation**
• Instant translation lets you translate selected text in up to 11 languages and add the translation to your presentation with a tap**
• 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
• Teachers using the Schoolwork app to assign activities in Keynote can now view student progress, such as 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 presentations 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.
• Use the new Outline View to focus on the structure and flow of your content without other distractions.
• Play YouTube and Vimeo videos in your presentations.*
• Movie export now supports a wide selection of formats and frame rates.
• Hold the Option key while dragging an object to duplicate it.
• Easily find pictures and videos using new zoom and search capabilities in the redesigned image picker. Requires iOS 14 or iPadOS 14.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new, editable shapes.
* May not be available in all regions.
10.2 22/09/2020
• Movies can now play through slide transitions. Add the same movie to multiple slides to play from one slide to the next.
• Use the Align to Path option to have objects stay pointed in the correct direction while following a motion path.
• Easily add captions and titles to images, videos, shapes and other objects.
10.1 09/07/2020
• Use Keynote on an iPad with Magic Keyboard, a mouse or a trackpad for a new way to work with your presentations. Requires iPadOS 13.4.
• Add a Keynote presentation to a shared iCloud Drive folder to automatically start collaborating. Requires iPadOS 13.4 or iOS 13.4.
• Edit shared presentations while offline and your changes will upload when you’re back online. Requires iPadOS or iOS 13 or later.
• Select from a variety of gorgeous new themes to help you get started.
• Touch and hold, then drag across multiple objects to select them.
• Easily access your recently used themes in a redesigned theme chooser.
• Print or export a PDF of your presentation with comments included.
• Add a drop cap to make text stand out with a large, decorative first letter.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new, editable shapes.
• New “Keyboard” text build in and build out animation
10.0 31/03/2020
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
5.2.1 14/11/2019
• On iPadOS, use Keynote in multiple spaces or edit two presentations side by side in Split View.
• Support for new iOS 13 and iPadOS text editing and navigation gestures.*
• Use custom fonts installed from the App Store.*
• Capture a screenshot of an entire presentation, 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
•Edit master slides while collaborating on a presentation.
•Place images, shapes and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.
•Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles.
•Use new chart editing capabilities to change the style of individual series, adjust spacing between columns, add trendlines and more.
•Using face detection, subjects in photos are intelligently positioned in placeholders and objects.
•Adjust the appearance of cell borders in tables.
•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.
•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.
5.1 25/06/2019
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements.
more Version 15.1.1 10 Feb
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