Apple adds AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers

Apple has begun rolling out updates to its iWork productivity apps, Pages, Keynote and Numbers, that bring a new AI-driven feature called Intelligent Assistant. The updates arrived on October 22, 2026, and the assistant is reserved for people who subscribe to Apple Creator Studio.

The assistant is released as a beta and works only in US English. It also requires iOS 27 or later. According to 9to5Mac, it appears to be a separate tool from Siri AI, though Apple's release notes do not frame it that way explicitly.

In Pages, Apple says the assistant understands the document being worked on and can help users start a first draft, then edit, organize and refine the writing. It can offer guidance on where to begin, explain advanced features or suggest ideas for what is possible. Users can also ask it in natural language to draft a section, change the tone of the text, or generate images and shapes. It can also look up current information on a topic and fold it into the document.

Keynote gets a similar set of tools built around presentations. Apple describes an assistant that helps users build a narrative, add animations and polish slides. It can generate slides, presenter notes, images and shapes from natural-language instructions. As in Pages, it offers starting guidance and suggestions, and it can search for up-to-date information to include in a slideshow.

For Numbers, the focus is on data. Apple says the assistant can help users find insights, build complex formulas and visualize information, with an understanding of the spreadsheet at hand. Users can ask for tables to be generated, receive chart suggestions and get help with formulas using plain language. The same guidance features and web-search capability found in the other two apps are included.

Not every change is limited to subscribers. Apple says all users of Keynote can take advantage of a new Interchange Format, saved with the .keyx extension. The company describes it as an open file format that lets presentations be imported and exported more easily, and makes Keynote files simpler to edit in other apps.

9to5Mac noted that after updating all three iWork apps, the Intelligent Assistant had not yet appeared. The publication suggested that a server-side component might be involved and that Apple could switch the feature on shortly.