Keynote: Design Presentations Customer Service

When I first got this iPad, I thought Keynote was just one of those useless apps that just happens to appear on your device once you get it. Then one day I decided to try it out; and believe me, I was wrong. It’s awesome!!! I do like everything on it. But there was one day I did do a presentation on Keynote, and there is one thing that I needed to do for it that you can do on Keynote. That was to remove background on videos. You can remove background perfectly fine on photos. Why not on videos? It’s just like a photo, but it captures movement and sound. so my one and only request of this amazing and functional app is that it can remove background on videos. and this word REALLYE the best app ever if it was easier to use your finger and/or Apple Pencil and draw on the presentation. I later found out that there is a way to do that, but I would appreciate it if I could access the drawing toolbox a bit easier.

When I got my iPad, I saw this app all the time and I thought, “ Why do they put this app on here, I don’t think we would need it.” ZThen, it was getting closer to my dads sisters birthday. She took care of us when my mom was in the hospital and spent nearly all her money on us. I thought she really did something really special for everything she did so I decided I would look through the apps that I’ve never been on and I came up to the Keynote app.I tried it out and I saw that you could use by and I decided that I would you know just kinda like put some nice birthday stuff on there. Put a nice happy birthday song and have some nice note her husband had some things I wanted to say to her you know romance, so we decided that he could pick some poems on there. Then there can my uncle/my aunt which is the birthday girls brother. And he said what are you doing for the a lot of my iPad when I was on keto and I told him that I was really making a surprise for my aunt. Let’s call her candy. My uncle also wanted to do something so he said let’s go get some balloons and cake. Then in the evening of her birthday we got the cake from Maya and the balloons from a party place and the things you like the most was the presentation on keynote. It made her super happy.

It is fun and you can write your own presentation to why you want something or how you want something or you can practice your homework on or like an essay and if you do really love ELA I would get this app. This app may help you and it may guide you through getting something you want by writing slides, telling your parents why you want it in reasons why like introduction body paragraph reason one reason, two reason three for example for example for example and then your conclusion and then all about the author, but we don’t need to worry about and it is family, friendly a child should have it and they should not worry about their parents finding out there is nothing inappropriate or bad you can do whatever you want on it. I don’t mean whatever you want. I mean, you can write whatever you want, but you can always have parental controls on it to see what your kids are writing so this is why I would recommend this app. It is so fun. You can do your own presentations. Telling you it helped me so maybe it might help you.

Ive been doing family writing/presentations and i was looking for an app. I was at school, and they asked me to download keynote. I saw it on my page on my iPad at home, and since I knew how good it was, I went on and downloaded it. With normal apps like this, there would be ads, interruptions, and other things to get you off task. But with this there are 0 ads, 0 interruptions, and 0 of all the other bad stuff. It was easy to add pictures and texts, the selection of next slides make it easy, The only thing I would add is putting the video in the presentation. Like not a link. So the next slide I could just press play and choose the size of the video so I could maybe have some notes on the side or something like that. Another this is different colored texts and fonted texts. Overall amazing app, I will recommend this to my family members. Thanks for reading my review!

I love to make slide shows and I didn’t even know that keynote was a thing! But when I got my phone, it was on and I was like “well what is this app? I might as well try it” so one day I made my own slide show! It turned out ok and I had to restart. In my opinion, it’s like google slides but much more confusing. It was hard to navigate and very glitchy. I would recommend to people who have strong stamina and like challenges. Overall it was a little disappointing but other than that it was a great app! My parents loved my slideshow and they thought it was hilarious! I thought it was a good slide show! Even though the process of it was hard a disappointing. Have fun trying all day to figure things out on this app! You’ll need it.

So, like, this is like iMovie and slides merged together… creating something better. I love keynote. And I’ve been playing this for 5 minutes. So some of you might think, ‘oh nah you should play it for longer before you Judge it or else the game might turn out to be bad and you’ll be heartbroken so don’t think that it’s good yet’ but I have a feeling that this game is going to be very fun for me. In slides, you don’t really have the option for all these fonts and the insert photos and all the details, and you can’t choose the background of the presentation, which you can do in iMovie, but iMovie is quite glitchy and laggy and never saves my work…so when I downloaded this 5 minutes ago, I knew this was going to be a creating game that I would use in every second of my free time. I’d like to thank whoever came up with keynote and everyone who helped bring it to life.

It takes a while, but here’s how. 1. Draw a picture of something or use shapes. 2. Animation. There are two ways to do it. First method: Select an object and press “Animate”. You can phase your object in and out of the scene with a wide variety of build ins and build outs, as well as in between animations, such as changing opacity, giving it a path to follow, and more. Second method: Draw the object you want to create on one slide, and give the slides automatic transitions. On each slide, draw the object in a slightly different position, drawing more or less positions depending on how smooth you want the animation to be. 3. Backgrounds. There are a lot of different backgrounds to choose from. You can use simple gradients, solid colors, your own images, and more. You can even add dynamic backgrounds for dreamlike landscapes, ghostly abysses, vast oceans, floating above the clouds, and even gliding through mountains! 4. Voiceover and Captioning. For the character dialogues and narration, press the “Record” button. There are endless possibilities as to what the characters could say. For captioning, go into the shapes menu and select “Text”. You can use any font you wish. From Party LET for a whimsical feel or Bodoni Ornaments for cryptic and alien languages (or a fancy way to censor bad words), to Impact for its huge… impact. Make sure it’s at a reasonable size so people can read it. 5. Sound effects. For those who want a more immersive feel, you can go into third party apps like LumaFusion (what I use) and download Storyblocks sound effects and music. These sound effects will go into your files in the “StoryBlocks” folder. You can access these files and use them in your presentation. For voice effects, go into a voice changer app and record your voice with the filter you want to use. If you can save your voice recordings and save them in files as “compatible” recordings, you’ve got your very own filtered phrases to use in your presentation! 6. Storyline. Every show needs a story. If you can imagine it, you can create it. Enjoy!

Love Keynote Speaker. I’ve been teaching college for around fifteen or so years, and this has been my go-to program for lectures since I started. The tools are incredibly easy to use (the, “magic move” transition is essential); I am also able to easily export to PDF or other programs as-needed. Morning of a lecture, I can easily import images or adjust text, even on the go, even running into class. Because the program is now standard on the Apple iPad, I can also pull up my keynote presentations on my iPad, and connect (with adaptors) directly to the projector in the classroom, circumventing the PC entirely with its (very different, proprietary, sub-par and very fiddly) programs- which makes it faster, easier, and more seamless to instantly go into the lecture for the day. Keynote for iPad is why I can get everything setup quickly, and attend to the myriad other issues in the classroom that crop up at setup every day. (My only criticism is difficulty in finding a slide advancer device that works with iPad. Logitech spotlight finally worked!) Bringing everything on an iPad each day also saves my backache and tension- I teach at different campuses across the city, so having everything on one small device (but not too small) makes everything seamless and ensures I can also bring my stacks of handouts, readings, etc in one quick trip. I used to bring an entire laptop- and pretty quickly, my sciatica, etc. would flare up. This is small, portable, and mighty. Please never get rid of this program. I love Keynote and it is an essential tool to my everyday work, all semester long. I rely on this software every single day.

I have 3 very different businesses. I have used Keynote for years! It is the most flexible presentation software I have ever found! I have always had to use both Microsoft and Apple platforms. I finally committed to going 100% Apple because of 2 major strengths; Ease of Use and Flexibility! In Keynote you will be able to create a beautiful professional looking presentation in minutes versus the days you would spend in any other program. This saves my businesses time and money! While at the same time making me money because the final product is visually powerful. Always gets my point across with stunning clarity. I highly recommend this product whether you are a first time user or a seasoned professional. You are only limited by your own imagination!

As an experienced PowerPoint user, I used to hate this app. Thought it was virtually worthless. The current version makes it much easier to generate an outline on my iPhone (especially given my neuropathy) I still need to learn how to use my iCloud to move the ones I wrote today over to the Mac, which will be a superior environment for developing them further, and then eventually for moving them over to the Vision Pro, which will be a huge upgrade in my overall capabilities (especially given the several other disabilities that I have been developing since retirement 18 years ago. The added features possible on the Vision Pro do look particularly interesting, down the road.

As someone who absolutely loves Keynote for macOS, it’s nice to have that near-identical functionality available on my iPad. Sadly, it isn’t perfect. Barring the fact that I couldn’t figure out how to exit presentations being shown on the iPad until today (swipe with 3 fingers for anyone else who’s lost), it doesn’t support presentation remotes like PowerPoint or Google Slides on iPad. I know that’s a bit of a nitpick, and that there’s an option to use your iPhone as a remote, but A) I don’t have an iPhone, and B) The macOS version of Keynote DOES support presentation remotes. Having an actual presentation remote with laser pointer makes giving presentations more dynamic, and since I pretty much use my iPad in lieu of my laptops for college, not having this feature is disappointing.

Hi I have done a lot of editing and this app lets you have a lot of creativity but I do this on our iPad and when you do like a presentation and you have to write the text it’s hard to actually text what you want to write and I always just thought it was kind of annoying so I always just did my voice for the text and I didn’t write it so maybe they should fix this but if they don’t, I can just keep doing this but if you agree, just I don’t know other than that. I think it’s a pretty good app and you can do a lot of editing and it’s nice to have when you’re just want to do it and you don’t have Google slides or something in summary, I really like it except texting the words I hope that makes sense

Keynote is truly one of my favorite tools. Its intuitive design and powerful features make creating presentations an absolute pleasure. I love how seamlessly everything flows, from selecting templates to customizing slides with images, videos, and animations. The ease of use doesn't sacrifice the professional quality of the final product—every presentation looks polished and visually appealing. I also appreciate how well Keynote integrates with other Apple products, making it simple to sync and share my work across devices. Whether I’m preparing for a big presentation or just organizing my thoughts, Keynote always delivers exactly what I need. It's definitely my go-to for all my presentation needs!

I use Keynote constantly and for most graphics needs (not just presentations- although Keynote blows PowerPoint away in that regard as well). I have the entire Adobe Creative Cloud library of software and use it for some detailed projects, but for about 85% of may needs, I can create graphic solutions in much less time, with much greater ease (Keynote is not cluttered like Adobe software tends to be), and with same results. Apple should expand Keynote functionality and promote it much more as a wonderful graphics program (and some simple animations) that go far beyond just presentations. It is even useful in authoring personal books and picture-based journeys. Best app ever.

Well, not the best app I’ve ever used, but when I first got an iPad around June, I saw the Keynote app and I was like this app might be worthless just like the other apps, but it turns out I was wrong because when I first went on Keynote and found out that you can make presentations on there, I was so happy because I loved to make presentations and it was so fun, but it’s not the best app I have ever used and I suggest that they have drawing feature that would make it really really cool if they did that I would’ve gave it five star review but this is amazing and I’m not deleting it! Sincerely……… GEL1LA💅💗

It seems like every time I get used to this app, they forcefully change something for me to adapt to via updates. Recently it seems to be a giant push for their new paid AI features. I just wish the developers would ask or give the option before changing how core features such as importing pictures for backgrounds work. This app used to be so simple to use for presentations, now it feels like it’s actively working against me in order to get me to purchase features I don’t want or need. Do better, Apple. This actively makes me want to ditch iOS to pursue other options.

Apple why did you break the remote feature in keynote for the best device ever by size ( small ) iPhone 5s. I do not have an SE. I am able to link to newer iPhones without issue. However the iPhone 5s will not see a remote to link to it nor will it display itself on a device you are linking it to. However if you cancel trying to link the device running the presentation you are attempting to link to crashes every time. So something is being done. It is just blocked. Please reenable remote keynote feature to the iPhone 5s. I had to delete the app on my iPhone 5s and redownload it. Works perfectly now.

Keynote is such a powerful tool for many things not just presentations. Things would be a lot better if your text bounding box didn’t have padding, it would be better if it went around the lettering like a vector software. Would also love to see more unique animations, and would love to have even more deep control over them. Would also love to see a dead simple tool to make ground up animations, if anyone can pull that off it would be you guys. Also, we really hope we get the ability to export a video with a transparent background on the iOS version.

This app is the best thing you’ll ever get because I make so many slides about things that ever happened to me and stuff like I literally am assumed to be popstar like I’m about to be up at new popstar. My name is indigo sky that’s my stage name, not can I tell you my real name though but I am getting so successful with this app like I can make cool slides I can make live videos it’s super fun and super exciting so if you could ask for this, let them get it and if you want this, get it now it’s free unless you want add-ons so get it now if you wanna be preppy and if you wanna be trendy like that

Keynote is simply fantastic. I use it almost daily. However, I would like to make a couple of suggestions for improvement: 1. In showing a presentation, I often would like to go back to the previous build only. But when I go back, Keynote takes me to the beginning of the slide instead, and not to the previous build. 2. Would it be possible to copy formatted text in the presenter's notes so that it stays with its original format, such as text color, bold, italic, paragraph formatting, etc.

I love Keynote and it has been my main presenting tool for years. However, in recent times I wish I could work on the same presentation on both my Mac and iPad (and sometimes, iPhone), and although in theory that is possible using iCloud’s File app, but the issue is that the iCloud’s File app synchronization speed is very slow, and often times I have different versions of the presentation. For example, if I create a folder on iCloudon my Mac, it takes a very long time for that simple operation to show up on my iPad.

I’m a college student and keynote is my go-to when it comes to editing my powerpoints during lectures. However, I wish it had more utensils to work with. Mainly just a highlighter (that appears behind the text rather than over the text). Also, it would be nice have folders that you can sort the files into. I use the tabs for now, but I feel like it would be easier to arrange them into folders. Lastly, I would like to suggest being able to star certain slides on the powerpoints. This will help when going back to important slides or knowing which slides I need to study a bit more.

Been using keynote for 7 years now, decided to update my iPad.. I regret it very much.. The change fill colors and change outline color have merged and now if I want to change the fill of something I have to change the outline as well, same as if I wanted to change the outline, I have to change the fill.. it’s kind of annoying.. Also the rearrange button is all sorts of annoying… I don’t want to send an entire drawing to the very back, just part of it.. it’s a bit much to work with.. Please if it isn’t too much

This app is really amazing. I get to journal I get to make new things. This app is also amazing because you don’t need Wi-Fi for it for any like Internet number three. The app is free and I just wanna give a a really big thanks to whoever made this because now I can just make presentation about my journaling and I can lock the app so nobody can see you like what I’m doing and I can blog I mean, not blog just like do you like a digital journal instead of writing and I just wanna give a really big shout out there thank you very much for having this app

Worked Keynote on my iPhone With no problem. The only issue here is that the app won’t slow you to edit after viewing. You would need to completely shut down the app, reopen it and go from there. Another thing also is that when sharing with other people to add/edit, collaboration of work flow is not smooth. You can’t simultaneously work on the same project with other people at same time which is a bit frustrating because the changes are not immediate and can get a bit confusing on what is added/edited it.

This might be my very first review on a product ever, but i had to because i seriously appreciate you guys stepping up your game like that. I like to be very visual when i teach and i make presentations for videos and math tutorials for my business, and i feel like a whole new set of possibilities has presented itself. Thank you, keynote people! You’re clearly not getting the credit you deserve in these reviews (for some freakin reason 🙄 like, can i see the presentation app that you made??), but ignore the haters, just keep doing you!

I love Keynote, use it all the time, but one major drawback is that when you play a presentation it automatically goes to full screen with no option of playing in a window. Due to the lockdown, I’m using Zoom for showing presentations and playing Keynote over Zoom is really difficult without an in-window play option - is there any way that you can add this feature? PowerPoint has it, surely you don’t want Microsoft to better you? 😜 please make it a feature - it’ll make my quarantined working from home so much easier! Thank you! 🙏🏼

Keynote is pretty good. While it may not have features other presentation software has, it does have some individual characteristics. The animations are original and fun. The font selection is pretty good. The Magic Move features works so well. I don’t understand why people get so mad about no selection feature. If you’re that desperate, log onto iCloud on a computer, and go to Keynote. If you shared your presentations on iCloud, they should be there. You can select on computers. Overall, Keynote is really cool, and definitely beats out Slides and can compete with PowerPoint.

This app was really simple to use and I barley had to have any instructions to know how to use it! Great for making fun little presentations for class, business, and whatever else you would like! I am a big fan of the fun and cool option they have for transitions between slides, it adds a fun little twist to presentations! When given the choice of what app to use to present I definitely go for keynote! Totally reccomend downloading! I would honestly give this fours stars and a half but I like the satisfaction of five stars :)

So far as office products, I prefer Word over Pages and prefer Excel over Numbers. However, I very much prefer Keynote over Power Point. It does a decent job of converting between the two products. Keynote is more flexible, easier to use, and has more features. If transitions are your thing, people are always wowed by them in a Keynote presentation. It looks good on iPhone and very good on iPad. Using the iPhone as a remote for a Mac running a Keynote slide show is handy and impressive.

THANK YOU APPLE for adding support for action builds. This is a really solid presentation app, and I’m really happy to see how far the iOS version of Keynote has gotten since the early days. If there’s one thing I’d really like to have, I’d like an option to keep a copy of my presentation slides with annotations while presenting. It’s really useful to have when teaching other people and highlighting certain things during the presentation. I believe Powerpoint has this feature, and it would be really nice to have this on Keynote.

This is the best app in the world because you just make your slides and my students really feel good with this. I teach them really good. I’m also teach them today. I can teach you that it’s a really needs to be more star rated. How about we give you 2000 stars that is what my review is oh and also we have in this will help your students or course you can use it for fun birthday parties and really really a lot. I don’t know why, but this is the best app in the world so thanks.

If I’m going to be completely honest, I was completely in love with the app! However, recently I’ve been seeing glitches happen. Here are some: 1. It normally takes at least 2+ minutes to put jut one photo in. It shows that I tried to put the photo in but I just have to keep exiting out of it and doing it all over again. I’ve tried rebooting it but it never ends up working out in the end. 2. I also would make it so that we can have the full screen background thing like it used to have. I really miss that part of keynote and I’ve just been having to duplicate the presentations and then deleting each slide over and over again. 3. I think it would be really helpful to be able to do “Instant Alpha” but on videos. Other than that, it’s an amazing app and there’s no other problems I’ve encountered.

It’s hard to use but I hAve no ChOiCe

I love this app, It’s easy and fun to use I would definitely use this 10/10. This is for school and education and more. The only thing I’d change, Is there is more options on what theme, There is great themes and many themes that you can customize, abut I’d feather more options in that. Either way it’s amazing all for school and projects!

The app is very good but I can’t update and I try to reinstall it but doesn’t work

Key note is very useful and you have lots of different options of slides and much more

This app works 10times better on mac than it does on iphone but its still good

Can you add color with your free image because there is just one color

Great application for creating quality presentations.

I have used this program for several years to produce and show amazing slideshows for Health and Safety training. It is great to be able to use an iPad to create text, photos and videos. I do not even need a power source as my iPad Pro has enough juice for the day. Thanks Apple. Each update gets better. Keep up the good work! Bill

It just works seamlessly with my iPad Pro 11 inch 4th’ I and I just love the options of Slides like when ever I want to write a story or something about a product like what I’m doing right now which is writing a theory on the next MacBook Pro and right now that’s all I’m gonna say it’s just Amazing

I had a small project to do,so I used keynote it was easy to use.(maybe it’s because I been using keynote for 3 years)one of my biggest problems was that I didn’t know how to save as and put it in a file(I found out how)I think keynote is really good one of my favourite things are it does not have any advertisements.so I really like it!

I love the program, it has amazing features and was easy to learn. My biggest complaint is that I haven't been able to export my presentation to pdf format on my ipad pro. It gets part way and just crashes and exits the program. I have tried large presentations and small and it won’t do either. I really hope they fix this issue.

Very useful

Who says its hard to use ? Piece of cake Rob

This app is so much more easier to use than google slides and better quality too. Keynote live really helps me present my presentataions

I use different apps for school i got a bad mark well not to bad but when i use keynote i get full marks this app is the best you should try it I LOVE THIS APP AND YOU SHOULD TO

I want keynote

It's easy and perfect to do presentation when you delete keynote and reinstall it all your presentation is keep nothing change

Tejbir. Singh

Super good

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You did a really good idea + I like that you didn’t do any iCloud storage just like first form and love your app here’s some five stars for you and here’s the five stars for you

Victor Salad

Best app for work, presentations & more ! Super easy to learn how to use Never changing apps 😆

This allows me to write as I feel and well yeah!

It's really good an it and there's a setting I really like : giving text to have the collor of images

I am making a presentation

Keynote is by far the best presentation software out there. It is so much easier to use and I save so much time compared to PowerPoint. The results are better and more professional too. If you don’t use it you should really give it a chance.

I learned long ago, read the release notes, read the reviews. This used to be free & would take some of the sting out of the high priced hardware. Now Apple is putting portions of this software behind a paywall & annoying us w/nagging ads to subscribe if you don’t. While I’m convinced that Apple would definitely posses the ability to extract blood from a turnip, why would you? Why do this to your LOYAL customers? Why force feed us yet another subscription? Y’all aren’t wealthy enough? Your office is literally a giant high tech spaceship. I don’t want to have to subscribe to Apple Creator Studio, I want to use Numbers/Pages/Keynote & know that I have access to all of it’s content & features having just shelled out over $2k on a 13” laptop or over $1,200 on a phone (a phone!) or whatever. So I will use my old version for as long as I can. Just disgusted. Also, the app icons are terrible. They don’t visually fit w/the rest of iOS, just like Clock & Camera (& arguably Preview), they look completely out of place on the screen. Now some are skeuomorphic, some are not. Scott Forstall would love it though.

Keynote has improved dramatically and is functional as a slide creator but there are still issues. - Autoscroll when zoomed in is erratic, taking selected item careening off its prior location - menu disappearing when zoomed in but tapping to get the menu unselects item, no way around except zooming out which makes item selection or grabbing handles difficult - exporting to GIF is fragile and breaks if the GIF has anything more than a simple animation, symptom is the preview and save menu option disappear, only Save to Files available - when saving a single slide as a JPEG the default range should be only the slide or slides selected - no way to turn off spline curve grabbing nearby objects, should be option to turn that off like there is for Edge Alignment; work around is to group spline curve to off slide object so spline can be manipulated without being hijacked - slide menu on LHS of screen should be able to be hidden without it auto-appearing again by toggling on slide number indicator - zoomed in views not allowed to go beyond edge of slide, making sizing handles impossible to grab - modifications menu for things like font changes obscure what is being changed; either allowing the pull down to pull-off and float over slide or the ability to center select item on the screen behind the menu would mitigate this problem Please keep improving Keynote

This app was perfectly fine to begin with, but now that you needed to update and add whatever features you decided to add you made the app harder to use. What should be easy like adding text into the grid or changing the slide size is now complicated. STOP CHANGING THINGS WHEN UPDATING APPS! IT DOESNT NEED TO BE FIXED. ADD WHAT YOU WANT AND LET THE REST BE. What was even the point in making such an un-intuitive app? What was the point of making things harder for people to use? What was the point in fixing something that didn’t need to be fixed? Did someone ask you to make it more complicated or did you decided to wake up and mess up your app for no other reason other than boredom! I am so sick of people changing things to App that don’t NEED TO BE FIXED. IT DIDNT NEED IT! Then Apple has the nerve to force me to update. That’s what really grinds my gears. I DIDNT EVEN WANT TO UPDATE THE APP, and now I got a useless update that makes everything so difficult! GOD!

It is very hard to use and understands. It locks up when you’re trying to play back with no option to return to application saved it just has to get closed. Again, the people that make all Apple products are PROGRAMMERS. We aren’t programmers. Why can you not make the products user friendly. When I had androids they were pretty much self explanatory, step by step m, almost always instinctual as to how to use them. I resent paying so much for Apple products when I cannot use all the functions because I’M NOT A PROGRAMMER. I’ve used computers for over fifty years. I’ve helped programmers tailor programs based on how they were being used. I’ve monitored them and I’ve explained to programmers how the programs should work as opposed to how they were ACTUALLY working and then tested them after they were altered for accuracy and efficiency. Apple wears me out with all the research that has to be done just to figure out how to do something that should’ve been so f’ng simple.

As others have stated, dragging to select would be so much more efficient. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had to select and reselect because of multiple layers of objects...and it just never seems to work properly. I instinctively keep trying to use my Apple Pencil to work with, only to scribble all over my work. Also, why is it that when I group objects together, I can’t link them? For example, I have font on top of a shape and want to link them both to another slide, so I grouped them. I have to link both the text and the shape in order for this to work? I’ve probably spent double the time on my project than necessary if the app just offered basic functions. It’s also incredibly frustrating that when I zoom, the toolbar blocks the top of my slide completely, so the only way I’m able to navigate small shapes at the top of my slide is to be zoomed out...but I can’t use my Apple Pencil to navigate the elements of my slide in place of my fingers!

I’m trying to make lectures for my class and the Apple Pencil works well with Keynote. As I present my presentation I add annotations so I can do our math problems. Unfortunately the ‘done’ button is near where my right hand will rest while making annotations. This clears the screen in the middle of the annotations, making me start over. Also, there is no option to keep the annotations once you are done with the presentations. I like making the slides in keynote better than PP, but I can keep the annotations in PP and not have to start over since there isn’t a done button in PP. the pencil doesnt work as well (switching colors brings down a drop down menu in PP where it appears at the bottom in Keynote) but starting over because I bumped the button is infuriating. I managed to waste a good amount of time and have nothing to show for it. If it’s possible to move the colors and done button, that would be great but I haven’t found anything about it so far.

There’s a lot of great things about this app, but let’s be honest, Apple, you’ve really really dropped the rotate feature on this app for iPad. In theory, it makes sense, use two fingers to rotate the object to the direction you want and yes I know how Apple loves multi touch features. However, this one is down right annoying!! It takes you waaaaaaay longer to rotate something than it needs too. I have been trying to rotate an image for 20 minutes! I just can’t grab the image to rotate it. A lot of times the same thing happens when you want to move an object too. It’s like the app doesn’t recognize the fact you’re actually trying to interact with it. So please, please, please add a rotate button to the images and objects you’re working with because it’s very frustrating when you’re trying to do a 1 second thing and it takes literally 20 minutes.

I've used Keynote for over 6 years and I'll put it short: You should not value design over the fluidity of the app. The number one thing about an app in my opinion and especially for presentation designing apps is how easy the app is to use. I'd also like to add that changing the interface constantly is not ideal, people will have to get used to the app over and over again. I've had to reset my navigation experience of the app multiple times because of this. Another point I'd like to make is because of all of the updates to make the app look better, than also worsens how easy the app is to use. I've experienced a lot more glitches and presentations take a lot more time to load thanks to the new iOS update. Don't make me use PowerPoint. Please.

You would think that APPLE’s presentation app would fully integrate an APPLE pencil, but no. The pencil will write, with limited colors, or “laser” point. The option to erase once you’ve written doesn’t exist. The only way is to undo, so if you want to erase after you’ve written something else you are out of luck. Also, you cannot undo if you have already moved onto another slide. There are other apps, such Goodnotes and Noteability, that have full functionality of the pencil while presenting and you can write on a slide and it shows in real time on the presentation. I wish I could use Keynote however because using those apps you lose transitions. The ability to write on the slides is a must for me since I am a teacher and notating on the slides is more important than the transitions.

The app is solid. But, it could be so much better with very little imagination and effort (especially for the soon-to-be trillion-dollar company that makes the iPad Pro!). For example, Keynote needs drag to select. Long touch at a particular spot to activate selection mode and bring up crosshairs. Drag the finger, during which a dotted rectangle dynamically follows to show you what you are selecting. Lift finger, and all items touching the rectangle have been selected. Upon lifting finger, show popover action menu. This is pretty straightforward, and countless other apps already do it. The current approach of selecting one item at a time while keeping another finger on an "anchor" item is silly and slow for slides that have many graphical objects. Keynote developers need to work with OmniGraffle for a day. I get it that Keynote probably doesn't want to be as intricate as OmniGraffle with multitouch, but still.... there are some basic things (like drag to select) that could be done so much more intuitively and creatively to truly capture the magic of touch interface.

I love using Keynote and do so regularly. It’s great that I can now use special formatting in the presenter notes, such as bold, italics, different colors of text, etc. I do that because these are easy-to-see symbolic reminders of things I need to do during a presentation. What’s frustrating, however, is that, when using my iPad as the remote for my iPhone for a presentation, all of that special formatting disappears and the text is generic! All of my symbolic reminders are then useless. So, what’s the point of being able to use these features when creating the presenter notes if they’re not going to be visible when actually giving a presentation?

I wish we still had steve jobs in charge. i made the apple switch in 2006. it was a delight to get off the annoying and constant neediness of windows. fast forward to 2026 and my former frustrations now live at apple. today it upgrades or improves 24/7 but lost its vision. Thus, Keynote has been redone to mask itself as more when it is clearly less. this has not only happened with keynote. i am constantly upgrading every apple device and i hate that. sometimes the upgrades do damage which are a nightmare to fix. I am leaning more to open source as a result. i was used to using apple software year after year. that has ended. i am tired of these surprises.

I want this app to be usable again. These are basic, elementary functions that should not create tension or require workarounds. Right now, from the very first second of using the app, everything falls apart with the simplest possible task — image snapping while resizing. When resizing an image, it sometimes snaps to the edges of another image on the page, but it is almost impossible to catch and maintain that snapping point. As a result, the image ends up being resized unevenly and misaligned. To fix this, you have to constantly adjust zoom levels, which in turn creates additional problems. Overall, there is way too much unnecessary friction for such a standard and basic task. This simply should not be happening. Before the update, the app was much more comfortable and predictable to use. Now core editing behavior feels broken. Was this even properly tested before release? It honestly feels like usability was sacrificed for no reason, breaking workflows that previously worked fine. This kind of issue seriously undermines productivity and makes the app frustrating to use for real work.

As a 20 y/o aspiring artist, and a creative at heart, This app used to be a great way of self-expression for me. I loved using the animation features to move around PNG images of my original characters and have them go on silly adventures with assets I created myself or existing characters I like. I made tons of videos I am genuinely proud of by utilizing the app in this manner. Today, I was gonna do just that and begin my work on a new creative project, but when I opened Keynote, I was greeted by a subscription model that was never there before! I’ve already had enough with companies that I used to trust becoming so greedy, anti-consumer and inaccessible to their users nowadays that I don’t even know who to trust anymore. Before this update, everything in the app was free for the user to enjoy, But as with many other services in these recent years, now it just feels like an app that actually works for the consumer is merely a pipe dream. Not only is there a premium subscription now, but now users can create soulless Ai generated slop that not only feels like a slap in the face to me as an artist who used to express myself through this app, but it is also grooming society to be lazy and to rely on big corporations to do things for them instead of learning new skills that will be healthy and beneficial in their lives. Instant gratification really has ruined a generation, hasn’t it? So in summary, as an artist who uses Keynote in unorthodox ways, it is truly a shame to see an app go from a great tool that has many uses, all for free, to a tool that has a subscription model baked into it and encourages Ai usage instead of putting thought and effort into their presentations. Sorry, Apple, but you simply cannot succeed in life by cheating the system, no matter how hard you try!

I have been creating professional presentations on Keynote for 20 years and this is a serious downgrade to a beautiful tool. The loss of a simple toggle function and simple side-by-side placement of documents makes this horribly clunky. I consistently set my window panel up only to have it resize or disappear when I place another one next to it. And may the saints help you if you need to reference a third document of any nature while you’re working! The open panels may well be frozen by the time you return. I hate this update. I really don’t like some of the other features either, but you get the drift—it is not as smooth as it was.

I have ruined and spent hours trying to do what i use to do in much shorter periods of time. All because now the pencil is just a writing tool. Where i could move small items before using my pencil so I could see what I was doing I am now I’m moving things below because my fingers are too large to see what I’ve selected. Give us the option to use our pencil as a writing instrument or as a tool for placement and precision. Seriously. I think we are smart enough to know how we want to use our over priced Apple Pencil. disappointed with the update, wishing I hadn’t hit that button. You got 2 stars because I still enjoy Keynote but as mentioned the update stinks.

I’m so used to apple products being so intuitive, yet this version of keynote is the worst. Nothing seems in the correct place. The insert text box is in with the shapes? So, I hunt for a long time before I find it because who would look there. The “more” tab is just everything but the kitchen sink. And things seem grouped in ways that don’t feel coherent. There should have been a lot more thought put into the organization of menus. And I think they should be somewhat comparable to where they are located with the desktop program. I also seem to constantly click the option menu and erase something I’ve just done.

Il me dise de faire une mise à jour mais il n'y a pas le bouton update

Hate it

Because more often than not the UI disappears and I can no longer work, and I have to quit and reopen and that RUINS workflow and it’s a productivity app so if workflow is broken is a productivity app it means that app fails to do the only thing it is meant to do, which makes it unreliable therefore obsolete and useless. 1 star until you fix this.

I have used keynote for years and have been using the remote from iPad to control the presentation on a various macs. In the last couple months I have been having issues when I present with my notes pushed down on the screen and frozen so I can’t scroll them up. It is very frustrating. I use it every week to present and I have no idea what to do. Up until the last couple months I would have given keynote a 5 star.

I’m trying to use the Keynote Remote on my iPhone and the Presenter’s notes are VERY buggy. Try inputting a text that you’ll need to scroll and you likely won’t be able to reach the end of it as it keeps jumping, to the point of where the Presenter’s notes stop responding to touch input. Afterwards, you are stuck even after switching slides. Then, the only way to get out of this problem is to stop the presentation entirely and try again. Come on Apple, you can do better than that.

I have been using Keynote for years, and I recently traded my MacBook Air (2017) for a 4th gen iPad Air and now I can’t seem to pair my iPhone 12 Pro to the iPad to use as a remote. I’ve been using Keynotes as a training tool for going on three years now, and the inability to have a remote is hindering me greatly. Even Apple Support couldn’t figure out why this is t working.

I use keynote on my iPad on a regular basis to hold meetings virtually. It worked perfectly at first, but for the last 2 months I’ve been having trouble importing images, the image I chose just blinks and it won’t open, I’ve tried restarting keynote, restarting iPad and everything... just won’t work and I have to spend a lot of time. very annoying...please fix this bug!!!

I was creating a few 10 page keynotes and it was like 60m it really needs a reduce file size function and it will be really good!

All of my files are dimmed on Keynotes. Including the old and the new. Apparently that means they aren’t compatible, which is ridiculous because I was able to open them on Keynotes before. I can’t even delete or manage any of my files. I’m very unsatisfied.

Ces trois étoiles ⭐️ car il n’y a même pas d’effets spéciaux mais ces cool pareil

“I can’t even change the text given”

I wish keynote was a little easier to use because I get stuck but super happy it’s free it good for school

I cannot add photos unlike before the update

I’d really like to know

For the infrequent user of keynote it is horrid. Just putting in a photo is hell and then repeat oll the hellish inefficient steps.

What kind of clown did you hire to make these new versions honestly? Alan Dye wasn’t enough of a catastrophe with 26s? They are really good at making people rethink their decisions of buying their next iPhone. Somehow, it’s a joyful experience to have shapes, tables and options buried in the only purple button behind all the slop you want us to sift through? I guess the same clowns who thought it was a good idea to bundle iWork with creator studios apps to begin with.

A once decent presentation making app has been massively downgraded by it’s “AI” features. They also removed all capability of customizing the toolbar. I do *not* need to generate new images every slide nor cleaning it up, but you know what I do need? Inserting elements. Why is that behind two clicks now? And on top of that most of the features in the bar are not avaliable without a suscription!? Disgraceful

What happened to Apple? Are you becoming a Microsoft, Adobe, Google Frankstein? I HATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. These other companies are evil, they have no respect for our privacy and rights. Maybe it is time to move away from Apple and explore alternatives.

Craig Federighi stood on stage in 2013 and declared Pages, Numbers, and Keynote would be free forever, but Apple’s definition of “forever” is 13 years. Keynote has gone freemium. $12.99/month for OpenAI-powered AI slop and some templates that barely justify the paywall. The new icon (all the ones in the creative suite really) make designers cringe on Reddit. “But everything you had before is still free!” This misses the point entirely. Keynote is now just another freemium product with greedy upsells, indistinguishable from the race-to-the-bottom app economy that Apple used to position itself against.

I’ve been using Keynote since iWork, I also really like using Numbers and Pages. I have need for the new templates. I have ZERO need for Final Cut Pro and another subscription. I give lectures, I do not make movies. Furious.

Paywalled

Je cherche le tutoriel, …?

Keynote is so fun and creative. But it’s kinda hard to do stuff when you trying to do a surtain thing and it does something else. Welp, that’s my opinion. Let’s see what yours is😛