iWork, which is the name of Apple’s productivity suite for iPhone, iPad and Mac that encompasses the Pages word processor, the Numbers spreadsheet app and the Keynote presentation software, is about to get an update to make your Apple Pencil more useful.
This was briefly mentioned in today’s press release from Apple announcing the newly released 10.5-inch iPad Air and the 7.9-inch iPad mini 5 tablet models.
Apple today announced an upcoming update to iWork for iOS, available next week, with enhanced integration of Apple Pencil including new animation options in Keynote that let users draw an animation path for any object and an all-new user interface that enables easy implementation of build effects, including move, rotate and scale.
Apple has been updating Pages, Keynote and Numbers on a more or less consistent basis. An update in January brought basic Apple Pencil support to the Pages, Keynote and Numbers apps allowing you to select things and scroll with your stylus, but that’s about it.
Even though Apple isn’t saying much about the features in the upcoming iWork for iOS update, it’s a safe bet that the apps are probably going to gain support for the double-tap action on Apple Pencil 2, as well as for drawing shapes with tilt and pressure sensing.