Keynote
Table of Contents
Keynote User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
- What’s new in Keynote 14.0
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- Intro to Keynote
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a presentation
- Choose how to navigate your presentation
- Open a presentation
- Save and name a presentation
- Find a presentation
- Print a presentation
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- Prevent accidental editing
- Undo or redo changes
- Quick navigation
- Change the working view
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Basic touchscreen gestures
- Create a presentation using VoiceOver
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- Add or delete slides
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- Reorder slides
- Group or ungroup slides
- Skip or unskip a slide
- Change the slide size
- Change a slide background
- Add a border around a slide
- Show or hide text placeholders
- Show or hide slide numbers
- Apply a slide layout
- Add and edit slide layouts
- Change a theme
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- Add an image
- Add an image gallery
- Edit an image
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- Add and edit a shape
- Combine or break apart shapes
- Save a shape to the shapes library
- Add and align text inside a shape
- Add 3D objects
- Add lines and arrows
- Add and edit drawings
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- Add video and audio
- Record video and audio
- Edit video and audio
- Add live video
- Set the movie and image formats
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- Position and align objects
- Use alignment guides
- Place objects inside a text box or shape
- Layer, group, and lock objects
- Change object transparency
- Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
- Add a border to an object
- Add a caption or title
- Add a reflection or shadow
- Use object styles
- Resize, rotate, and flip objects
- Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
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- Select text
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- Add text
- Copy and paste text
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- Format a presentation for another language
- Use phonetic guides
- Use bidirectional text
- Use vertical text
- Change the look of text
- Use text styles
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- Change text capitalization
- Ligatures
- Add drop caps
- Make characters superscript or subscript
- Format fractions automatically
- Format dashes and quotation marks
- Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
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- Set tab stops
- Align text
- Format text into columns
- Adjust line spacing
- Format lists
- Add mathematical equations
- Add links
- Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
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- Add or delete a table
- Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
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- Add or remove rows and columns
- Move rows and columns
- Resize rows and columns
- Merge or unmerge cells
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- Change the look of table text
- Show, hide, or edit a table title
- Change table gridlines and colors
- Use table styles
- Resize, move, or lock a table
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- Add and edit cell content
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- Format dates, currency, and more
- Highlight cells conditionally
- Format tables for bidirectional text
- Alphabetize or sort table data
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- Add or delete a chart
- Change a chart from one type to another
- Modify chart data
- Move, resize, and rotate a chart
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- Change the look of data series
- Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
- Change the look of chart text and labels
- Add a chart border and background
- Use chart styles
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- Animate objects onto and off a slide
- Animate objects on a slide
- Change build order and timing
- Add transitions
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- Present on your iPhone
- Present on a separate display
- Present on iPhone over the internet
- Use a remote
- Make a presentation advance automatically
- Play a slideshow with multiple presenters
- Add and view presenter notes
- Rehearse on your device
- Play a recorded presentation
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- Check spelling
- Look up words
- Find and replace text
- Replace text automatically
- Set your author name for comments
- Highlight text
- Add and print comments
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- Send a presentation
- Intro to collaboration
- Invite others to collaborate
- Collaborate on a shared presentation
- See the latest activity in a shared presentation
- Change a shared presentation’s settings
- Stop sharing a presentation
- Shared folders and collaboration
- Use Box to collaborate
- Create an animated GIF
- Post your presentation in a blog
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- Use iCloud Drive with Keynote
- Export to PowerPoint or another file format
- Restore an earlier version of a presentation
- Move a presentation
- Delete a presentation
- Password-protect a presentation
- Create and manage custom themes
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- Transfer files with AirDrop
- Transfer presentations with Handoff
- Transfer presentations with the Finder
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- Keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcut symbols
- Copyright
Version history
Keynote on iPhone is frequently updated. Updates are cumulative, so when you use the most recent version of Keynote, it has all the latest features. You can see all the new features included with each release below.
Keynote 14.0
Add a new look to your slides with the Dynamic Color, Minimalist Light, and Minimalist Dark themes.
Streamlined in-app notifications inform you when a person joins a collaborative presentation for the first time.
Preserve file format and full quality when adding HEIC photos taken on iPhone or iPad.
Improved compatibility for slide transitions when importing and exporting Microsoft PowerPoint files.
Additional stability and performance improvements.
Keynote 13.2
Bring new dimension to your presentations with 3D objects in USDZ format.
Play embedded animations within USDZ files or use Magic Move to animate 3D objects across slides.
Make your presentations more expressive by adding Stickers.*
See inline predictions for text as you type.*
Easily begin collaborating on a presentation with others while on a FaceTime call.*
Find and open suggested presentations when searching for Keynote with Spotlight.*
Drag documents to the Keynote icon on your Home Screen to open or import them.*
Add motion to your presentation with new dynamic themes and live video slide layouts.
Export your presentation in ProRes formats, now on iPhone and iPad.
Remove external borders on charts imported from Microsoft Office files.
* Requires iOS 17 and later
Keynote 13.1
Add scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to your presentations and preserve visual quality at any size.
Break apart imported SVG images and save them to your shapes library for future use.
Easily switch to your slideshow window when sharing Keynote on a FaceTime call.
Show subtotal summary labels in stacked bar, column, and area charts.
Keynote 13.0
Export and send a copy of your presentation in a different format right from the Share menu.
Includes improvements and bug fixes for mail merge and collaboration activity.
Keynote 12.2
Stay up to date on everyone’s recent activity in collaborative presentations and get notifications when others join, comment, or make changes.
Easily share and see updates about your presentation in Messages. Send a message or start a FaceTime call right from a collaborative presentation.
Choose your own live video background for a dramatic effect or quickly isolate an image’s subject.*
Style charts with additional controls for colors, lines, and number formats.
Additional options for printing and exporting PDFs.
* Requires iOS 16
Keynote 12.1
Skip or unskip all slides in a collapsed group.
Keynote 12.0
Enlarge slides to a maximum zoom level of 400 percent.
Edit font size more precisely with up to two decimal places.
Keynote 11.2
Use the camera in your iPhone or iPad to show yourself right on your slides.
Allow participants to take turns controlling a shared presentation from their own device.
With radar charts, visually compare multiple variables at once to easily show similarities and differences in your data.
New slideshow controls provide easy access to the slide navigator, keyboard shortcuts, live video sources, or multi-presenter controls while presenting.
Drag and drop to copy text, images, and other items between apps on iPhone.
Flexible collaboration allows participants to add others to a shared presentation.*
Instant translation lets you translate selected text in up to 11 languages and add the translation to your presentation with a tap.*
Audio graph makes charts accessible to people with vision impairments by playing an audio tone that changes pitch to represent different values.*
* Requires iOS 15
Keynote 11.1
Teachers using the Schoolwork app to assign activities in Keynote can now view student progress, such as time spent.
Keynote 11.0
Use new editing controls in the Arrange Inspector to adjust the look and placement of objects.
Use onscreen keypads to enter exact values for text size, spacing, table size, and more.
Add or remove objects or table cells from a selection by tapping or dragging across them.
A new option in More > Settings > Editing to always open presentations in edit view.
Add phone number links to table cells, text objects, and shapes.
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