Keynote for iCloud release notes

Get complete step-by-step instructions and information on all the features in Keynote for iCloud.

• Select from a variety of gorgeous new themes to help you get started.
• Add a Keynote presentation to a shared iCloud Drive folder to automatically start collaborating. Learn more
• Add a drop cap to make text stand out with a large, decorative first letter. Learn more
• Easily access themes in a redesigned theme chooser.
• Use new text layout options to add borders, paragraph backgrounds and columns.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new, editable shapes.
• Use Unite, Intersect, Subtract and Exclude commands to create new shapes.
• New “Keyboard” text build-in and build-out animation.

• Place images, shapes and equations inline in text boxes so they move with text. Learn more
• Add Shimmer and Sparkle transition effects between your slides.
• The Magic Move transition now smoothly blends between images or objects.

• Make precise changes to table row and column sizes in the Format pane.
• View and recover recently deleted files in the Document Manager.
• Edit grouped objects while collaborating.

• Quickly add links to web pages, email addresses and slides.
• Make image galleries come to life with build effects.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Add presenter notes to your slides.
• Adjust shadows and backgrounds, and use rounded corners in column and bar charts.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Add an interactive image gallery to your presentations to view a collection of photos. 
• Use doughnut charts to visualise your data in an engaging new way.
• Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.

• Redesigned document manager: open presentations stored anywhere in iCloud Drive, easily find shared presentations and create nested folders.

• Enhance your documents using a library of over 500 professionally drawn shapes. Learn more
• Reply to comments and join threaded conversations. Learn more
• Support for advanced image fill-in graphics.
• Insert and edit object connection lines.
• The Stock and Currency functions now return data from the previous market day’s close. Learn more

• A simplified design gives you easy access to the tools you need.
• Support for editing build-in and build-out animations on objects. 
• Play object builds and a greater selection of transitions as you present.
• Add gradient and image fills to graphics.
• New align and distribute options make it easier to position objects in your presentation.
• New stock and currency functions provide up-to-date securities data in tables.
• Post interactive presentations on Medium, WordPress and other websites.
• Import Keynote 1 presentations.
• Preview older versions of your presentation before choosing which one to restore. 
• Set dates, times and currencies for your language or region when you create a document.

• Support for real-time collaboration with Keynote on Mac, iPad and iPhone (feature in beta).
• Collaborate with specific people (feature in beta).
• Keynote Live lets you present a slideshow that viewers can follow from their Mac, iPad, iPhone and from iCloud.com.
• Open and edit Keynote ‘05 presentations.

See the release notes for Pages and Numbers for iCloud.