Intro to collaboration in Keynote
You can collaborate with others in real time by sharing a link to your Keynote presentation. Since shared presentations and any changes to them are saved in iCloud, people working in the presentation can see the changes as they’re made.
As the owner of the presentation, you control who has access to it, and what those users can do:
Access: You can send a link that anyone can use to open the presentation. Or you can invite specific people who must be signed in with their Apple ID to open the presentation.
Permission: You can choose whether others can make changes to the presentation or only view it.
Invitation: You can allow participants to add more people to the presentation.
You can change access, permission and invitation settings or stop sharing a presentation at any time.
You select the delivery method, set access and permission settings, and send the invitation the collaboration settings dialogue.
iCloud requirements
To invite others to collaborate on a presentation, you must sign in with your Apple ID and have iCloud Drive turned on.
If you invite someone using an email address or phone number that isn’t associated with their Apple ID, they won’t be able to accept the invitation until they add the email address or phone number to their Apple ID. When they tap or click the link in the invitation, instructions appear.
Minimum system requirements
To view or edit a shared presentation, and invite others to participate in the presentation, you and the people you share it with need any of the following:
A Mac with macOS 12 or later and Keynote 12.2 or later
An iPhone with iOS 15 or later and Keynote 12.2 or later
An iPad with iPadOS 15 or later and Keynote 12.2 or later
To view or edit a shared presentation, people you share it with need a Mac or Windows computer with a supported browser.
Anyone with an Android device, or an Apple device that doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements, can view but not edit the presentation.
Note: Not all Keynote features are available for a shared presentation. See the Apple Support article About collaboration for Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
Work offline
When you’re not connected to the internet, you can continue to work on a presentation that’s shared with others. The next time you’re online, changes are uploaded to iCloud automatically. See Edit while offline.
If your presentation is stored in Box instead of iCloud, you can use Box to collaborate.