14.0
2024-04-02
• Add a new look to your slides with the Dynamic Color, 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 noncontiguous 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
13.2
2023-09-21
• 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 or iPadOS 17 and later
13.1
2023-06-13
• 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
13.0
2023-03-30
• 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 right 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
12.2.1
2022-11-29
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.
12.2
2022-10-25
• 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 right in the Messages conversation (Requires iOS 16 or iPadOS 16)
• Send a message or start a FaceTime call right 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 favorite tools with the customizable 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 colors, lines, and number formats
• Additional options for printing and exporting PDFs
12.1
2022-06-21
- 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
12.0
2022-04-07
• Enlarge slides to a maximum zoom level of 400%
• Edit font size more precisely with up to two decimal places
11.2
2021-09-28
• Live video makes presentations even more engaging by letting you use the camera in your iPhone or iPad to show yourself right on your slides—in a window or fullscreen
• 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
10.3.9
2021-01-14
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
10.3.5
2020-11-12
• Stability and performance improvements
10.2
2020-09-22
• 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 right 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.
10.1
2020-07-09
• 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.
10.0
2020-03-31
• 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
5.2.1
2019-11-14
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
5.2
2019-09-30
• 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 movies, 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
5.1
2019-06-26
•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 to start drawing or to select and scroll — or toggle between these options via double-tap using a supported Apple Pencil.
•Customize lists by choosing from new bullet types, changing the size and color of bullets, creating custom bullets, adjusting indentation levels, and more.
•Choose Learn Spelling to add a word to the spelling dictionary.
5.0.2
2019-05-09
This update addresses an issue that caused closed captions for videos to fail to play during a slideshow.
5.0.1
2019-04-10
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
5.0
2019-03-29
• Draw a path with your finger or Apple Pencil to animate an object across the slide.
• Add emphasis to presentations with action build effects, including move, rotate, and scale animations.
• Create and share an animated GIF by exporting one or more slides.
• Edit presenter notes while presenting or rehearsing a slideshow.
• Save custom shapes for use in other presentations and access them on any device using iCloud.
• Create themes to use as a model for new presentations, and access them on any device using iCloud.
• Slides with custom wider aspect ratios now display better in the slide navigator, light table, and presenter display.
• Create image placeholders to easily replace images without affecting the formatting of your slide.
• Improved performance while collaborating on presentations.
• Edit grouped objects while collaborating.
• Support for vertical text in shapes and text boxes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
4.3
2018-11-08
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
4.2
2018-09-18
• Adjust text size in presenter notes and invert colors while presenting.
• Easily save drawings to Photos or Files, or share them with others.
• Support for Siri Shortcuts. Requires iOS 12.
• Keynote now supports Dynamic Type.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.
• Performance and stability improvements.
4.1
2018-06-15
• Edit existing or create new master slides.
• Easily record, edit, and play audio directly on a slide.
• A new option in Settings > Keynote lets you use Apple Pencil to select and scroll.
• Export a presentation as a movie or images.
• Give charts a new look with rounded corners on columns and bars.
• Add mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation.
• Enhance your documents with a variety of new editable shapes.
• Add gradient and image fills to shapes and text boxes.
• Improved support for Arabic and Hebrew.
4.0.1
2018-05-04
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
4.0
2018-03-28
• Draw and write with Apple Pencil on supported devices, or use your finger.
• Animate drawings during slideshows.
• Collaborate in real time on presentations stored in Box.
• Easily change the theme of a presentation.
• Adjust presentation slide size and aspect ratio.
• Use donut charts to visualize data in an engaging new way.
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos.
• Enhance presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.
3.3.1
2017-11-10
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
3.3
2017-09-20
• Redesigned document manager makes it easier to access files stored in iCloud Drive or with third-party storage providers
• On iPad, drag and drop text, images, and more between Keynote and other apps
• Work more efficiently on iPad using Slide Over, Split View and the new Dock
• Quickly access and organize your presentations using the new Files app
• Use Unite, Intersect, Subtract, and Exclude commands to create new shapes
• Use Align, Distribute, Flip Vertical, and Flip Horizontal commands to quickly arrange objects
• Support for Break Apart command for complex shapes from the shapes library
• Performance and stability improvements
3.2
2017-06-14
• Enhance your presentations using a library of over 500 professionally drawn shapes
• Easily rearrange your slides with the new Light Table view
• Edit presenter notes while viewing slides
• Reply to comments and join threaded conversations
• New auto-correction and text replacement options save time while typing
• Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic languages
3.1.1
2017-04-26
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
3.1
2017-03-28
• Change slide master and customize slide background
• Rehearse a presentation with current slide, presenter notes, and timer all in one view
• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID
• Format text as superscript or subscript, use ligatures, and change text background color
• Easily replace missing fonts in your presentation
• New leader lines make pie charts easier to read
• Import Keynote 1 presentations
• Post interactive presentations on Medium, WordPress, and other websites
• Customize dates, times, and currencies for your language or region
3.0.5
2016-10-28
This update contains stability and performance improvements.
3.0
2016-09-14
• Real-time collaboration (feature in beta)
- Edit a presentation with others at the same time in Keynote on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com
- Share your presentation publicly or with specific people
- See who else is in a presentation
- See participants’ cursors as they’re editing
• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from iCloud.com
• Highlight with Apple Pencil while presenting on iPad Pro
• A new format pane takes advantage of the display on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
• Improved downloading – Keynote now downloads presentations from iCloud only when you’re ready to work on them
• Open and edit Keynote ’05 presentations
• Wide color gamut image support
• Enhanced keyboard navigation and additional keyboard shortcuts
2.6.2
2016-05-11
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.6.1
2015-11-12
• Resolves an issue with opening presentations containing many images
• Additional bug fixes
• Stability and performance improvements
Other recent improvements:
• Multitask while editing using new Slide Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture on iPad
• Quickly access formatting tools from the new Shortcut Bar on iPad
• Easily select text using new Multi-Touch gestures on iPad
• Use keyboard shortcuts when connected to a wireless keyboard
• Support for new 3D Touch
• Open Keynote ’08 and ’06 presentations
• Edit and present in portrait orientation
• Preview shared documents on iOS and Android browsers
• View and restore changes made to a document over time
• New build animation: Line Draw
• New Apple-designed themes: Modern Type, Exhibition, Drafting
• Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu
• Add reference lines to charts
• Full bidirectional support for Arabic and Hebrew
2.6
2015-10-16
• Multitask while editing using new Slide Over, Split View and Picture in Picture on iPad*
• Quickly access formatting tools from the new Shortcut Bar on iPad
• Easily select text using new Multi-Touch gestures on iPad
• Use keyboard shortcuts when connected to a wireless keyboard
• Support for new 3D Touch
• Open Keynote ’08 and ’06 presentations
• Edit and present in portrait orientation
• Preview shared documents on iOS and Android browsers
• View and restore changes made to a document over time
• New build animation: Line Draw
• New Apple-designed themes: Modern Type, Exhibition, Drafting
• Easily access recently used fonts in the Fonts menu
• Add reference lines to charts
• Full bidirectional support for Arabic and Hebrew
• Improved PowerPoint compatibility for charts, text overflows, non-rectangular masks, animation mapping, and theme import and export
• Improved PowerPoint export
Many accessibility improvements:
• VoiceOver can now read relevant text formatting details including font name and font size while editing
• Easily edit presenter notes with VoiceOver
• VoiceOver can now read presenter notes during slideshows
• Edit chart data and chart elements with VoiceOver
• Add, remove and rearrange rows, columns and cells with VoiceOver
• Get table header information with VoiceOver
• Add and review comments with VoiceOver
* Split View is available on iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4
2.5.5
2015-09-16
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.5.4
2015-07-08
• Resolves an issue that prevented proper navigation and editing with VoiceOver
2.5.3
2015-04-22
This update adds support for the Keynote Remote Apple Watch app and includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.5.2
2015-01-09
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.5.1
2014-11-07
This update contains stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.5
2014-10-17
• Support for iCloud Drive
• Support for third-party storage providers
• Updated file format makes it easier to send presentations via services like Gmail and Dropbox
• Instantly switch between iPad, Mac, and iPhone with Handoff
• More color options including new custom color mixer on iPad
• Use the color picker to sample and apply any color available in your presentation
• New Trace animation
• New presenter display layouts
• Pair Keynote with nearby iOS devices using Multipeer Connectivity
• Take photos and videos right from the app
• Inter-table alignment guides
• Print floating comments
• Column and row labels in tables
• Usability improvements for resizing and positioning charts
• Improved accessibility
• Improved bi-directional language support