Apple is rolling out AI-centric updates to its iWork suite—Pages, Keynote, Numbers—that include a brand new ‘Intelligent Assistant’ with powerful capabilities. Here’s what it can do.
If you subscribe to Apple Creator Studio, Apple’s latest updates to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers today add an Intelligent Assistant—seemingly separate from Siri AI—that will help you in a variety of ways inside the apps.
Intelligent Assistant is available in beta in US English only, and requires iOS 27 or later.
Here’s what it can do in each of the iWork apps, per Apple’s release notes:
I still find it a little annoying that Apple has bundled iWork with their image/video editing suite. These features sound useful but not $12.99 per month useful.
Beyond these AI features for Apple Creator Studio subscribers, Apple says all users can benefit from a new file format in Keynote.
Keynote will let you import and export presentations in a new Interchange Format (.keyx), which Apple says is an open file format that will make it easier to edit Keynote files in other apps.
I’ve updated all iWork apps and don’t yet see the Intelligent Assistant, but it’s possible there’s a server-side component that Apple will imminently activate.
Have you tried the Intelligent Assistant yet? How’s it working for you? Let us know in the comments.
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Ryan got his start in journalism as an Editor at MacStories, where he worked for four years covering Apple news, writing app reviews, and more. For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.
