Create your first presentation in Keynote on iPad
To create a Keynote presentation, you first choose a theme, which is a set of pre-designed slide layouts that you use as a starting point. Each layout includes placeholder images and text styled as headlines and body content. To add your own content, you replace the placeholder content with your own.
Create a presentation
Open Keynote, then, in the presentation manager, tap
at the top of the screen to open the theme chooser (shown below).
Note: If you’d like the ability to format table and chart data using the conventions of another language, choose the language before choosing a theme. See Format a presentation for another language.
In the theme chooser, tap category names at the top of the screen to view different themes, then tap a theme to open it.
Some themes aren’t downloaded to your computer until you choose them or open a presentation that uses one. If your connection is slow or you’re offline when this happens, placeholder images and slide backgrounds in the presentation may appear at a lower resolution until you’re online again or the theme finishes downloading.
To use a different layout for the first slide, tap the slide in the slide navigator on the left, tap
, tap Master, then tap a layout.Each slide layout is a master slide you use as a starting point for your content.
Do any of the following to build your presentation:
Add a slide: In the slide navigator, tap the slide you want the new slide to follow, tap
, then tap a layout. If you can’t see the slide navigator, pinch closed on the screen to zoom out.Add text: Double-tap placeholder text to add your own.
Add an image: Tap
to replace placeholder images with your own.
To play the presentation, tap
, then tap a slide to go to the next slide.To end the presentation, pinch closed anywhere on the screen. For more ways to show a presentation, see Play a presentation on your iPhone or iPad.
To close the presentation, tap Presentations or
in the top-left corner of the screen.Your presentation is saved automatically as you work, so you don’t lose your work when you close the presentation. Closing the presentation doesn’t quit Keynote.
You can rename a presentation or change where it’s saved at any time.