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Apple's Office Assistant Gives Slide Decks a New Coauthor and Presenters New Homework

October 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT · New York time

Apple is adding an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, using models from Apple and OpenAI. The assistant can use a document's context to perform tasks such as designing, animating and refining slides in Keynote. Apple also says it can draft and restructure material in Pages. The feature puts AI assistance inside familiar productivity apps rather than requiring users to move every task to a separate chat window. That could reduce some of the repetitive work involved in preparing a document or presentation, especially when a user wants to revise material already in progress. It also changes the division of labor in a presentation. A polished slide can be produced more quickly, but the person presenting it still has to understand and stand behind the material. A well-timed animation does not answer a question about the numbers on the screen. Office software has spent years promising that the next feature will make meetings more productive. The assistant's contribution is to make the evidence of preparation arrive faster. That may be welcome news for anyone moving text boxes late at night. It also means the presenter has a new responsibility: checking the deck before the audience discovers that the most prepared participant is the software.

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