New functions come to pages, numbers and keynote

Probably unknown to many of you, however, for those of us who are Mac users and iOS devices, Pages, Numbers and Keynote are the equivalent of Microsoft's Word, Excel and Powerpoint, with a much more pleasant and simple operation, although with the absence of some functions that do not stop being implemented update after update.

iWork is updated with a lot of news

Recently, Apple's office suite, iWork, has received a major update that provides its three applications, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, with interesting news and improvements.

According to the notes implemented by the company itself, these are the news that we now find in iWork for iOS:

Pages 4.1

• Easily record , edit, and play audio directly on a page.

• Smart annotation marks now stretch and snap to text as you edit.

• Quickly switch between drawing and smart annotation mode on iPad.

• A new option in Settings> Pages allows you to use Apple Pencil to select and scroll.

• Activate the change control in the text of the figures and the text boxes.

• Add colors and images to the background of page layout documents.

• Change the appearance of charts with rounded corners on columns and bars.

• Add mathematical equations to page layout documents with LaTeX or MathML notations.

• Enhance documents with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Add gradients and image fills to shapes and text boxes.

• Find templates by category easily.

• Save a different auto scroll speed per document when using presenter mode.

• Improved compatibility for Arabic and Hebrew.

Numbers 4.1

• Easily record, edit, and play audio directly into a spreadsheet.

• A new option in Settings> Numbers allows you to use Apple Pencil to select and scroll.

• Change the appearance of charts with rounded corners on columns and bars.

• Add mathematical equations with LaTeX or MathML notations.

• Enhance documents with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Add gradients and image fills to shapes and text boxes.

• Find templates by category easily.

Keynote 4.1

• Edit master slides or create new ones.

• Easily record, edit, and play audio directly onto a slide.

• A new option in Settings> Keynote allows you to use Apple Pencil to select and scroll.

• Export a presentation as a video or as images.

• Change the appearance of charts with rounded corners on columns and bars.

• Add mathematical equations with LaTeX or MathML notations.

• Enhance documents with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Add gradients and image fills to shapes and text boxes.

• Improved compatibility for Arabic and Hebrew.

As for Mac, now Pages, Numbers and Keynote allow you to add "mathematical equations with LaTeX or MathML notations", change "the appearance of graphs with rounded corners in columns and bars".

More specifically, Keynote improves its compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint, while Numbers does the same with respect to Microsoft Excel.

On the other hand, Pages has obtained support for the control of changes in the text of the figures and of the text boxes, and the capacity for "colors and images in the background of page layout documents".

All Apple iWork applications are completely free for both Mac and iPhone and iPad, in addition to having a web version through the icloud.com website.