IWork 15.3 Adds Sheet Hiding and Text-to-Shape Tools

Apple’s iWork suite quietly picked up a version 15.3 update across Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, landing on both Mac and iPhone. The changes split cleanly into two tiers: a handful of features locked behind a Creator Studio subscription, and a broader set of improvements available to everyone.

The subscription additions lean on Pixelmator Pro as a companion tool. Any image in a document can be sent directly to Pixelmator Pro on iPad for editing, with the revised version syncing back automatically once you’re done. Subscribers also get a text-to-shape generator, where typing a description produces an editable vector shape inside the document.

The free improvements are less flashy but probably more useful day to day. Pages adds automatic hyphenation as you type, along with a toggle to show or hide invisible formatting characters like spaces and paragraph breaks. Those two additions alone address complaints that have followed Pages for years.

Numbers gets the most structural attention

Keynote adds new transitions and builds, including a radial wipe, a shift effect, and a character blur. Numbers, though, receives the most practical organizational work in this release:

• Individual sheets within a workbook can now be hidden or shown on demand
• Sheet tabs can be assigned distinct colors for visual sorting
• All three apps gain easier image swapping through the Content Hub

The sheet-hiding feature is the kind of thing spreadsheet users in competing apps have had for a long time. Its arrival here is welcome, if overdue.

Final Cut Camera also updated to version 2.3 alongside the iWork release, adding clean video feed output for external monitors. That update is separate from the iWork suite but arrived the same day, suggesting a coordinated release cycle rather than a coincidence. The version 15.3 updates for all three iWork apps are available now on the App Store.