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Pages Changelog

What's new in Pages 14.0

Apr 6, 2024
  • Press and hold the Command key to select noncontiguous words, sentences, or paragraphs
  • 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

New in Pages 13.2 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • Bring new dimension to your documents with 3D objects in USDZ format
  • Use the new Minimalist Report template featuring elegant typography, colors, and layout
  • Style paragraphs with new options for borders
  • Remove external borders on charts imported from Microsoft Office files

New in Pages 13.1 (Jun 14, 2023)

  • Start writing in Notes, then open your note in Pages to continue editing with powerful design and layout features
  • Create business reports, school papers, and greeting cards with updated templates
  • 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 for book covers
  • Show subtotal summary labels in stacked bar, column, and area charts
  • Export the pages of your document as image files

New in Pages 13.0 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • Export and send a copy of your document in a different format right from the Share menu
  • Templates for reports, notes, letters, and resumes now include placeholder text with instructions
  • Includes improvements and bug fixes for mail merge and collaboration activity

New in Pages 12.2.1 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

New in Pages 12.2 (Oct 26, 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 right in the Messages conversation (Requires macOS 13)
  • Send a message or start a FaceTime call right from a collaborative document (Requires macOS 13)
  • Now use the File menu to manage your shared document or send a copy
  • The new Blank Layout template makes it easy to start documents that let you freely arrange text and graphics
  • A new option lets you automatically remove an image’s background to isolate its subject (Requires macOS 13)

New in Pages 12.1 (Jun 21, 2022)

  • Use mail merge to quickly create personalized letters, cards, and envelopes for multiple recipients
  • Select from stylish new templates for event invitations and student certificates

New in Pages 12.0 (Apr 8, 2022)

  • Publish directly to Apple Books with larger file sizes up to 2 GB
  • Use Shortcuts on macOS Monterey to create and open documents
  • Read comments and track changes using VoiceOver

New in Pages 11.2 (Sep 29, 2021)

  • Improved book publishing with 2-page spreads, optimized images, and more flexible versioning
  • Flexible collaboration allows participants to add others to a shared document*
  • Instant translation lets you translate selected text in up to 11 languages and add the translation to your document with a click*
  • Create new documents from the app icon in the Dock
  • Radar charts help you visually compare multiple variables at once to easily show similarities and differences in your data
  • *Requires macOS Monterey

New in Pages 11.1 (Jun 1, 2021)

  • Link to web pages, email addresses, and phone numbers from objects such as shapes, lines, images, drawings, or text boxes

New in Pages 11.0 (Mar 24, 2021)

  • Updated media browser offers enhanced search options and new content categories such as Recents, Portraits and Live Photos
  • Ability to add phone number links to table cells, text objects, and shapes
  • AppleScript functionality to change a document password or open password-protected documents

New in Pages 10.3.9 (Jan 15, 2021)

  • This update contains stability and performance improvements.

New in Pages 10.3.5 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Refined new design on macOS Big Sur
  • Stability and performance improvements

New in Pages 10.2 (Sep 23, 2020)

  • Select from new report templates to help you get started.
  • Enhance your documents with a variety of new, editable shapes.

New in Pages 10.1 (Jul 10, 2020)

  • Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in your documents.*
  • Easily add captions and titles to images, videos, shapes, and other objects.
  • Create more flexible formulas using new functions.
  • Import an iBooks Author book to work on it in Pages.
  • *May not be available in all regions.

New in Pages 10.0 (Apr 1, 2020)

  • 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 macOS 10.15.4.
  • Add a drop cap to make a paragraph stand out with a large, decorative first letter.
  • Apply a color, gradient, or image to the background of any document.
  • Easily access your 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.
  • Enhance your documents with a variety of new, editable shapes.

New in Pages 8.2.1 (Nov 15, 2019)

  • This update contains stability and performance improvements.

New in Pages 8.2 (Oct 1, 2019)

  • Set the default font and font size used for all new documents created from basic templates.
  • Easily add HEVC-formatted movies to documents, enabling reduced file size while preserving visual quality.
  • Jump to a specific page in your document using a new menu command.
  • Add accessibility descriptions to audio, video, and drawings.
  • Improved accessibility of exported PDFs.

New in Pages 8.1 (Jun 26, 2019)

  • Style your text by filling it with gradients or images, or by applying new outline styles.
  • Create links from text to other pages in a page layout document.
  • Copy and paste pages or sections between documents.
  • Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text.
  • 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).

New in Pages 8.0 (Mar 29, 2019)

  • Use the new table of contents view to easily navigate your document or book.
  • Automatically sync custom shapes and templates to all your devices using iCloud.
  • Add alignment guides to master pages to help with layout.
  • Improved performance while collaborating on documents.
  • Insert tables of contents and edit grouped objects while collaborating.
  • In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, you can now type vertically in your entire document or in an individual text box.

New in Pages 7.3 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Publish your books directly to Apple Books for download or purchase.
  • Performance and stability improvements

New in Pages 7.2 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Easily record, edit, and play audio right on a page.
  • Support for Dark Mode gives Pages a dramatic dark look. Toolbars and menus recede into the background so you can focus on your content. Requires macOS Mojave.
  • Support for Continuity Camera allows you to take a photo or scan a document with your iPhone and have it automatically appear in your document on your Mac. Requires macOS Mojave and iOS 12.
  • Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
  • Performance and stability improvements.

New in Pages 7.1 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • Track text changes in shapes and text boxes.
  • Add colors and images to backgrounds in page layout documents.
  • Give charts a new look with rounded corners on columns and bars.
  • Add mathematical equations to page layout documents using LaTeX or MathML notation.
  • Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
  • Improved support for Arabic and Hebrew.

New in Pages 7.0.1 (May 4, 2018)

  • This update contains stability and performance improvements.

New in Pages 7.0 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Make beautiful digital books using new book templates.
  • Collaborate in real time on documents stored in Box. Requires macOS High Sierra.
  • View pages side by side as you work.
  • Turn on facing pages to format your document as two-page spreads.
  • Add an image gallery to view a collection of photos on the same page.
  • Create master pages to keep the design consistent across your page layout document.
  • Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
  • Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
  • Additional options for reducing the file size of documents.
  • New option to automatically format fractions as you type.

New in Pages 6.3.1 (Nov 10, 2017)

  • This update contains stability and performance improvements.

New in Pages 6.3 (Sep 20, 2017)

  • Improved PDF export lets you view a document's table of contents in the sidebar in PDF viewer apps such as Preview
  • Drag and drop rows in tables that span multiple pages
  • Performance and stability improvements

New in Pages 6.2 (Jun 14, 2017)

  • Enhance your documents using a library of over 500 professionally drawn shapes
  • Reply to comments and join threaded conversations
  • Add linked text boxes so text easily flows from one place to another
  • New auto-correction and text replacement options save time while typing
  • Export documents as fixed layout ePub books
  • Change margins, headers, footers and paper size while collaborating
  • Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic languages
  • The Stock and Currency functions now return data from the previous market day’s close

New in Pages 6.1.1 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • This update contains stability and performance improvements.

New in Pages 6.1 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Add bookmarks to easily link from one part of your document to another
  • Add elegant mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation
  • Quickly open password-protected documents using Touch ID on the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
  • Easily replace fonts throughout an entire document
  • Import and export documents in Rich Text Format (RTF)
  • New leader lines make pie charts easier to read
  • New stock and currency functions provide up-to-date securities data in tables
  • Customize dates, times, and currencies for your language or region

New in Pages 6.0.5 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Support for Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro lets you easily edit text, shapes, tables and charts
  • Stability and performance improvements

New in Pages 6.0 (Sep 20, 2016)

  • Open and edit Pages ’05 documents
  • Use tabs to work with multiple documents in one window
  • Wide color gamut image support
  • Real-time collaboration (feature in beta):
  • Edit a document with others at the same time in Pages on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com
  • Share your document publicly or with specific people
  • See who else is in a document
  • See participants’ cursors as they’re editing

New in Pages 5.6.2 (May 10, 2016)

  • This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Pages 5.6.1 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Resolves an issue where some Microsoft Word documents would not open
  • Resolves an issue that sometimes prevented use of Look Up for words in lists
  • Additional bug fixes
  • Stability and performance improvements

New in Pages 5.6 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Multitask while editing using new Split View in El Capitan
  • Open Pages ’08 and ’06 documents
  • Shared Pages documents can now be previewed on iOS and Android browsers
  • Force click images and get haptic feedback as you edit using Force Touch trackpad
  • New Apple-designed templates: ePub, Kids Certificate, Classic Certificate, School Newsletter
  • Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu
  • Enhanced support for OpenType font features like small caps, contextual fractions, alternative glyphs and more
  • View Collections, Moments, Favorites and Shared Albums from Photos in the Media Browser
  • Add reference lines to charts
  • Create table, chart and shape styles from an image
  • Add and review comments with VoiceOver
  • Track changes with VoiceOver
  • Edit chart data and chart elements with VoiceOver
  • Additional AppleScript options for PDF export
  • Additional AppleScript options for ePub export
  • Improved Word compatibility for charts, text overflows and non-rectangular masks
  • Improved Word export
  • Improved ePub export
  • Improved EndNote support

New in Pages 5.5.3 (Apr 22, 2015)

  • This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Pages 5.5.2 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Pages 5.5.1 (Nov 7, 2014)

  • This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Pages 5.5 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • All-new design inspired by OS X Yosemite
  • Instantly switch between iPad, Mac, and iPhone with Handoff
  • Support for iCloud Drive
  • Updated file format makes it easier to send documents via services like Gmail and Dropbox
  • New sidebar for comments and tracked changes
  • Filter comments and tracked changes by author
  • AppleScript support for Mail Merge
  • Insert inline images in tables, headers, and footers
  • Move tables easily with improved table selection
  • Inter-table alignment guides
  • Improved cell border styling
  • Usability improvements for resizing and positioning charts
  • Improved bi-directional language support

New in Pages 5.2.2 (Aug 22, 2014)

  • This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Pages 5.2 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • New "view only" setting lets you share documents you want others to view but not edit
  • Delete, duplicate and reorder sections using the page navigator
  • Inline images and shapes in table cells are preserved on import
  • Copy-paste style improvements
  • Better placement of inserted and pasted objects
  • Improved Instant Alpha image editing
  • Media Browser improvements, including search
  • Improved AppleScript support
  • New Arabic and Hebrew templates
  • Improved support for bi-directional text
  • Word count for Hebrew
  • Create custom data formats
  • Control the z-order of bubble chart labels
  • Show rulers as a percentage of document size
  • Improved text box behaviour
  • Improved EndNote support, including citations in footnotes
  • Improved ePub export
  • Usability improvements

New in Pages 5.1 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • Vertical ruler
  • Share password-protected documents via iCloud link
  • Customizable alignment guides
  • Set keyboard shortcuts for styles
  • View character count with or without spaces
  • Improved precision for inserting and pasting objects
  • Create charts with date, time, and duration values
  • Delete sections from the page navigator
  • Improved compatibility with Microsoft Word 2013 documents
  • Export password-protected documents to DOCX format
  • Custom number formats in charts are preserved on import of Pages ’09 and Microsoft Word documents
  • Start a list automatically using new special characters
  • Improved support for bidirectional text
  • Improved ePub export
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements

New in Pages 5.0.1 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Customize the toolbar with your most important tools
  • Center and edge guides are on by default
  • Stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Pages 5.0 (Oct 23, 2013)

  • Stunning new user interface
  • Over 60 Apple-designed templates
  • Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
  • New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection
  • Enhanced change tracking, comments, and highlights; show and hide changes and comments on mouse-over
  • Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts
  • Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
  • Easy setup for headers, footers, and document body
  • Use new 2D bubble charts
  • Enhanced conditional highlighting makes it easy to automatically highlight cells based on numbers, text, dates, and durations
  • Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook
  • Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the document and can edit it with you at iCloud.com
  • Access and edit documents from iCloud.com using Pages for iCloud beta
  • New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes documents work seamlessly everywhere
  • Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help
  • Pages is now available in Arabic and Hebrew
  • Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

New in Pages 4.3 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • Adds support for Pages for iOS 1.7.

New in Pages 4.2 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • This update adds support for OS X Mountain Lion and takes advantage of the following features:
  • iCloud: Store documents in iCloud and keep them automatically up to date across your Mac, iPad*, iPhone*, iPod touch*, and the web. Changes made to a document on one device automatically appear on all your other devices.
  • Dictation: Speak words, numbers, or sentences and watch them appear in your document.
  • Pages 4.2 is also enhanced to take advantage of the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro so documents appear sharper and more vibrant.
  • *Requires Pages 1.6.1 or later installed on iOS device.

New in Pages 4.1 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Adds support for Mac OS X Lion and takes advantage of the following features:
  • Full Screen
  • Resume
  • Auto Save
  • Versions

New in Pages 4.0.5 (Jan 13, 2011)

  • Adds public sharing and private upload options for iWork.com public beta.
  • Improves the readability of exported ePub documents.

New in Pages 4.0.4 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • Fixes an issue with tables.
  • Includes compatibility with the standard ePub file format (for use with iBooks) when exporting.

New in Pages 3.0.3 (Feb 2, 2009)

  • This update addresses general compatibility issues.

New in Pages 3.0.1 (Sep 28, 2007)

  • This update primarily addresses issues with change tracking and performance.