Features available with Pages.
Take your documents to the next level. Pages is designed to give you amazing ways to tell your story.
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Get the updates.
Get the updates.
Then get in touch.
Stay up to date when people join, edit, or comment in collaborative documents and easily get in touch with your team using Messages.
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Get more done on iPad.
Quickly insert objects, find settings, and get to your favorite tools with the customizable toolbar. And Stage Manager extends multitasking across the big screen when working with multiple apps at the same time.1
Jump-start your designs with new templates.
Create invitations for your next big event with colorful photo card templates, or reward your students with a new coding certificate.
Batch mailing made easy.
Need to send a letter to multiple recipients? With mail merge, you can create a letter, card, or envelope in Pages, and then insert a personalized greeting or address from the Contacts app or a Numbers spreadsheet.
An optimal view for your documents on iPhone.
Screen View makes it even easier to read and edit your docs on iPhone. Turn it on and text, images, and tables are optimized to fit your screen. Turn it off to see the full layout.
Quickly translate text.
Instantly view a translation of any selected text — you can even replace it with a tap, if you like.2 Perfect for foreign language classes, businesses, and more when you need a quick in-document translation.
Turn handwriting into text. Magically.
Now with Scribble for iPadOS and Apple Pencil, your handwritten words will automatically be converted to typed text. Take notes, write a book, or annotate a paper, and see it quickly turn into text.
Write reports easier.
With new report templates, there’s no staring at a blank page. Jump-start an essay, research paper, or school report by choosing from one of the 3 new templates. Simply find a template for the type of report you want to create, then write, insert images, and more.
Skim through in style.
On your iPhone and iPad, you can read through your document, zoom in and out, and interact with it — without accidentally changing anything.
Play videos right in your documents.
Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in Pages, without the need to open a web browser. Simply add a link, and play your web video inside your document or book.
Other Key Features
Accessibility descriptions
Add accessibility descriptions to images, image galleries, movies, audio, and drawings to help people using assistive technology.
Audio
Easily record, edit, and play audio directly on a page.
Captions and titles stick with objects
Easily add text to images, videos, and shapes. Your words will automatically stay with objects — if and when you move them.
Color, gradients, and images
Apply a color, gradient, or image to the background of any document, to your text, or to any shape.
Create and share books
Use one of the many templates to create everything from fairy tales to cookbooks to novels. Add image galleries, video and even your own audio. Then share them directly with others or publish to Apple Books.
Custom templates
Create templates to use as starting points for new documents, and access them on any device using iCloud.
Dark Mode
Enable Dark Mode to give Pages a dramatic dark look and emphasize your content.
Default font
Choose your favorite font and font size, then set it for all new documents created from Basic templates.
Document links
Bring interactivity to your book by adding links to bookmarks, web pages or other pages of your document.
Drop caps
Add a large, decorative letter to make the beginning of your story or paragraph stand out.
Export
You can export your Pages documents into other file formats including PDF, Word, and EPUB.
Facing pages or two-page spread views
View pages side by side as you work. Turn on facing pages to format your document for two-page spreads, book layouts, double-sided printing, and more.
Footnotes and endnotes
Include footnotes or endnotes to add supplemental information to your document.
Gorgeous charts
From columns to donut charts, there are many ways to display your data. You can also create an audio representation of your chart using VoiceOver on iOS and iPadOS.
iCloud Drive folder sharing
Add a Pages document to a shared iCloud Drive folder, and automatically start collaborating.
Image background removal
Quickly remove an image’s background to isolate its subject or make unwanted parts of an image transparent.
Image gallery
Add and view a collection of photos on one page, and include unique captions per photo.
Math equations
Add and view a collection of photos on one page, and include a unique caption per photo.
Offline collaboration
Edit shared documents while offline, and your changes will automatically upload when your account’s online again.
Paragraph styles
Use paragraph styles to achieve a consistent look throughout your document, and to quickly make global changes to your text.
Presenter Mode
Use presenter mode to easily read text while giving a speech. Your text scrolls automatically like it’s on a teleprompter.
Remove parts of an image
Use the Instant Alpha tool to make parts of an image transparent and remove an unwanted background or color.
Shapes library
There are over 700 shapes to choose from. You can change the color and size, add text, and even create and save your own shapes.
Table of contents
Pages creates a table of contents that appears in the left sidebar and updates automatically as you edit. Use it to easily navigate your document and jump to different chapters.
Text wrap
Wrap your text around an image, video, or shape to create a unique look.
Track changes and add comments
When working with others, turn on track changes to see everyone’s edits. Add comments or reply to others’ to create threaded conversations.
Trackpad and mouse support on iPad
Use Pages with Magic Keyboard, Mouse, or Trackpad for a new way to work with your documents.