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Pages is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apples 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.
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 pre-defined 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
Some features of Apple Creator Studio require an Apple Intelligencecapable device. For full system requirements and usage limits for Apple Creator Studio intelligence features, see Apple Support article 125029.
* EndNote sold separately. EndNote integration requires a plug-in available from Apple Support.
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Everyone I know dislikes Pages and dismisses it as an over-basic Word Processing app. This is completely wrong. We use it for the creation of complex 100+ page books, brochures and other documents, collaborated on by people in multiple countries with a deep feature set rivalling all the most popular DTP apps. Its truly incredible and theres nothing to compete with its powerful combination of graphics, word processing, layout, collaboration and other tools. Affinity Publisher is great but no collaboration. Word is great but no graphics and horrible interface, and so on. But theres a major design flaw which is the cause of Pages poor ratings: When you open the app, its stuck in basic WP mode. To change it to DTP mode you have to dig deep into menus and go to Document Options/Document Setup/ and then switch off Document Body. Its the most idiot, poorly described menu option Ive ever seen! NOW youve switched from basic WP to a mega-advanced collaborative DTP app. So many features are there but not obvious because of Apples (beautiful) ways of replacing thousands of complex menus with touch-based or contextual menu-based options. APPLE: DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR: WHEN THIS APP OPENS, HAVE A BIG SWITCH DTP OR WP.
Everyone I know dislikes Pages and dismisses it as an over-basic Word Processing app. This is completely wrong. We use it for the creation of complex 100+ page books, brochures and other documents, collaborated on by people in multiple countries with a deep feature set rivalling all the most popular DTP apps. Its truly incredible and theres nothing to compete with its powerful combination of graphics, word processing, layout, collaboration and other tools. Affinity Publisher is great but no collaboration. Word is great but no graphics and horrible interface, and so on. But theres a major design flaw which is the cause of Pages poor ratings: When you open the app, its stuck in basic WP mode. To change it to DTP mode you have to dig deep into menus and go to Document Options/Document Setup/ and then switch off Document Body. Its the most idiot, poorly described menu option Ive ever seen! NOW youve switched from basic WP to a mega-advanced collaborative DTP app. So many features are there but not obvious because of Apples (beautiful) ways of replacing thousands of complex menus with touch-based or contextual menu-based options. APPLE: DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR: WHEN THIS APP OPENS, HAVE A BIG SWITCH DTP OR WP.
I think it is a good app and its clear how you add a new page my pressing the + icon and it has lots of uses (Like Im going in to Secondary School in September this year and I can see me using this app for something during Secondary school). I do think it should let drawing, writing and pictures overlap cause its like whenever I move my drawing a tiny bit it moves the writing some where completely different. I also think that when you press the equation button in the the plus sign once your in your page (You will also find photos and drawings in it), Whenever you click on it and start typing on it then give it a space it will do it in the rectangular box your writing the equation in but then once you press done there is no spaces in between each word so then you cant read what it says cause all of the words are attached and it just wont put spaces between them but besides from all of that it is a great app to write stuff on and I plan lots of things on here and you have done a good job Well Done.From M.B.RP.S. If your reading this and your American just to say it is not soccer it is called football cause we are England and we came up with the English language so stop taking it then changing it and tricking everyone in the world that you came up with it and speaking like it (Like stop tricking Australia) (And if you because you didnt the English did but if you are saying English I hope you understand what Im saying about our language and that its not the Americans its the Englishs language to decide what everyone should call stuff.
I think it is a good app and its clear how you add a new page my pressing the + icon and it has lots of uses (Like Im going in to Secondary School in September this year and I can see me using this app for something during Secondary school). I do think it should let drawing, writing and pictures overlap cause its like whenever I move my drawing a tiny bit it moves the writing some where completely different. I also think that when you press the equation button in the the plus sign once your in your page (You will also find photos and drawings in it), Whenever you click on it and start typing on it then give it a space it will do it in the rectangular box your writing the equation in but then once you press done there is no spaces in between each word so then you cant read what it says cause all of the words are attached and it just wont put spaces between them but besides from all of that it is a great app to write stuff on and I plan lots of things on here and you have done a good job Well Done.From M.B.RP.S. If your reading this and your American just to say it is not soccer it is called football cause we are England and we came up with the English language so stop taking it then changing it and tricking everyone in the world that you came up with it and speaking like it (Like stop tricking Australia) (And if you because you didnt the English did but if you are saying English I hope you understand what Im saying about our language and that its not the Americans its the Englishs language to decide what everyone should call stuff.
I have been happily using this app for years, but the latest iPad version is a constant pain. The first issue is that all the pages docs stored on my iPad were wiped on updating and only docs saved in cloud storage were usable. I have no idea why this happened so I tried restoring them from a back up on my MacBook and still they wouldnt open. The app just kept freezing. I finally gave up and deleted and reinstalled Pages hoping this would fix the issue. It did allow me to access cloud storage in Dropbox, etc but still keeps freezing or crashing completely and now has a number of conflicted versions of the same document which you then have to start working out how to manage - in 30 mins, I managed to acquire 13 different versions of the same document on both the iPad and in Dropbox! This means having to go through and delete the majority. Not sure if working through google docs or similar is proving as frustrating. Its great for apps to work alongside cloud storage, but only if access to the documents is consistently good, without that, the glitches make it pretty worthless as a way of working and if I had lost anything really important, I would have been very angry. Im lucky I keep back ups. If you use pages on iPad at the moment, make sure you have back ups of anything really important or you risk losing it. The last freeze once again stole all the docs on the iPad itself so nothing appeared in the menu.
I have been happily using this app for years, but the latest iPad version is a constant pain. The first issue is that all the pages docs stored on my iPad were wiped on updating and only docs saved in cloud storage were usable. I have no idea why this happened so I tried restoring them from a back up on my MacBook and still they wouldnt open. The app just kept freezing. I finally gave up and deleted and reinstalled Pages hoping this would fix the issue. It did allow me to access cloud storage in Dropbox, etc but still keeps freezing or crashing completely and now has a number of conflicted versions of the same document which you then have to start working out how to manage - in 30 mins, I managed to acquire 13 different versions of the same document on both the iPad and in Dropbox! This means having to go through and delete the majority. Not sure if working through google docs or similar is proving as frustrating. Its great for apps to work alongside cloud storage, but only if access to the documents is consistently good, without that, the glitches make it pretty worthless as a way of working and if I had lost anything really important, I would have been very angry. Im lucky I keep back ups. If you use pages on iPad at the moment, make sure you have back ups of anything really important or you risk losing it. The last freeze once again stole all the docs on the iPad itself so nothing appeared in the menu.
Okay, further to my 1 star review yesterday Ive had a call from Apple, fantastic. Though they didnt know where print and export had gone either! Between the call handler and myself we checked everything. We found a work around, in the recents screen and we could select and export and print there. Not ideal but okay. Then we opened a different document and at the top left of the screen where the filename is I spotted a down arrow, and touched it and woohoo the export was there and so was Print! Even the apple support lady did t know it was there as the help section said it was in the 3 dots or the usual export square with arrow button! So its there folks just not where its meant to be! Fantastic support from Apple and between us we figured it out, the support lady is putting a urgent request for the help section to be updated to reflect the new strange location of the export and print options. They were stunned it wasnt there and even her supervisor couldnt figure it out either so its great we now know whats happened and that its not gone its just in a really random place.
Okay, further to my 1 star review yesterday Ive had a call from Apple, fantastic. Though they didnt know where print and export had gone either! Between the call handler and myself we checked everything. We found a work around, in the recents screen and we could select and export and print there. Not ideal but okay. Then we opened a different document and at the top left of the screen where the filename is I spotted a down arrow, and touched it and woohoo the export was there and so was Print! Even the apple support lady did t know it was there as the help section said it was in the 3 dots or the usual export square with arrow button! So its there folks just not where its meant to be! Fantastic support from Apple and between us we figured it out, the support lady is putting a urgent request for the help section to be updated to reflect the new strange location of the export and print options. They were stunned it wasnt there and even her supervisor couldnt figure it out either so its great we now know whats happened and that its not gone its just in a really random place.
For Apple Creator Studio Subscribers:
Open an image from Pages directly in Pixelmator Pro on iPad and see the edited version in your document
Generate custom, editable shapes from a text description to illustrate your document
For Everyone:
Automatically hyphenate text as you type
Show or hide invisible formatting symbols
More easily replace images in your document from the Content Hub
15.3 30 Jun
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Also Recently Added:
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
15.2 9 Apr
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 Apples 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 Intelligencecapable 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 images 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 youre 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
For Apple Creator Studio Subscribers:
Open an image from Pages directly in Pixelmator Pro on iPad and see the edited version in your document
Generate custom, editable shapes from a text description to illustrate your document
For Everyone:
Automatically hyphenate text as you type
Show or hide invisible formatting symbols
More easily replace images in your document from the Content Hub
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Version 15.3 30 Jun
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