Keynote has received a major update on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, timed with the launch of Apple Creator Studio. The app now adopts the Liquid Glass design and adds new creative tools, with advanced features reserved for subscribers.
Apple confirmed that macOS users must install the Creator Studio edition of Keynote to receive future updates.
What’s new in Keynote for all users
The free update focuses on visual polish and better controls, especially on iPad.
Release notes
• Experience a new, more fluid way to work on your presentations with Liquid Glass
• Access the full set of advanced options and controls right from the new menu bar in iPadOS 26
• Make text and other objects pop with extra brightness and vibrant color using HDR on supported displays
• Add personality to your work with new editable shapes
These features arrive as a standard app update on iOS and iPadOS.
Keynote features for Apple Creator Studio subscribers
The subscription turns Keynote into a more automated presentation tool, with AI playing a central role.
Release notes
• 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 right 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
Together, these updates mark the biggest shift in iWork’s feature strategy in years, with Apple Creator Studio now sitting at the center of future development.
