Apple is adding an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, bringing writing, presentation, and data tasks into the company’s productivity apps. The assistant is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, and can use a document’s context to help carry out tasks within each app.
One assistant, different jobs in each app
In Pages, the assistant can draft written content, restructure it, and make tweaks. These features put AI help alongside document editing, where users can ask for changes to the material they are working on.
Keynote’s assistant can help design and animate slides, as well as refine them. Its ability to understand a document’s context is intended to let it work with the presentation already in progress.
Numbers focuses on data tasks. Apple says the assistant can calculate, visualize, and organize data, suggest chart types, and build custom tables. Taken together, these tools span several stages of working with a spreadsheet, from arranging information to presenting it visually.
Third-party agents can connect on Mac
Keynote, Pages, and Numbers now support the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27 or later. That enables third-party AI agents to plug into the apps, extending access beyond Apple’s own assistant.
The assistant is rolling out in beta to devices compatible with Apple Intelligence. It works on devices running iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 or later. The beta status means the new functionality is arriving as an early release for compatible devices.
AI and design updates reach other creative apps
Apple also outlined changes to its other creative software. Pixelmator Pro is adding Generate Fill, a feature that edits part of an image based on a description of the desired change. Apple says it matches lighting, perspective, and texture around the edited area so that the result blends with its surroundings.
Logic Pro for Mac and iPad is getting a Liquid Glass redesign and an AI assistant. Apple says the assistant can set up a vocal track from a single prompt and edit existing projects. On Mac, a redesigned Browser will use on-device AI to analyze, classify, and tag sounds that users add.
Final Cut Pro is also receiving an update. MotionVFX will bring templates, graphics, titles, and transitions directly into the app, while a built-in Content Hub will offer stock videos, photos, and backgrounds.
Creator’s Studio updates are planned for November
The changes across Apple’s creative apps broaden the role of AI beyond text and spreadsheet work. The listed features include generating or revising content, organizing material, and helping users shape creative projects, while the Logic Pro Browser is described as using on-device AI to handle sound organization.
Apple says the updates to its Creator’s Studio will be available to existing subscribers for free in November. That timing applies to the Creator’s Studio updates described for the creative apps; the productivity assistant itself is being introduced separately as a beta for compatible Apple Intelligence devices.