September 2020
New shapes
Enhance your presentations with a variety of new, editable shapes.
July 2020
- Easily add captions and titles to images, videos, shapes, and other objects. Learn more
- Format text as superscript or subscript, adjust capitalization, change text background color, and more. Learn more
March 2020
- 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.
June 2019
- 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.
March 2019
- 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.
September 2018
- Quickly add links to webpages, email addresses, and slides.
- Make image galleries come to life with build effects.
- Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.
June 2018
- 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.
March 2018
- Add an interactive image gallery to your presentations to view a collection of photos.
- Use donut charts to visualize your data in an engaging new way.
- Enhance your presentations with a variety of new editable shapes.
September 2017
- Redesigned document manager: open presentations stored anywhere in iCloud Drive, easily find shared presentations, and create nested folders.
June 2017
- 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
March 2017
- 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.
September 2016
- 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.