Apple has added a beta "Intelligent Assistant" to Pages, Keynote and Numbers for Apple Creator Studio subscribers, with the update landing on 22 October, 9to5Mac reports. It appears to be separate from Siri and, going by Apple's release notes, understands and works from the document, presentation or spreadsheet that is open.
In Pages it drafts sections, shifts the tone, makes images and shapes and offers guidance as the writer goes. Keynote gets slide and presenter-note generation plus help with animations, and Numbers gets generated tables, chart suggestions and formula help. All three can search the web for current information to bring into the file.
The assistant is in beta, in US English only, and needs iOS 27 or later. Separately, every user, subscriber or not, now gets an open Keynote Interchange Format (.keyx) for importing and exporting presentations, regardless of whether they pay for Creator Studio.
The 9to5Mac writer had updated all three apps but did not yet see the assistant, and guessed a server-side switch-on is still to come. Creator Studio is Apple's subscription bundle for its creative and productivity apps, which 9to5Mac covered in an earlier iWork update story in late September.
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