Apple adds OpenAI-powered AI assistant to Pages, Keynote, Numbers

Apple's move puts an AI assistant directly inside the apps where many people build slides, documents, and spreadsheets, rather than as a separate chatbot. The assistant draws on models from both Apple and OpenAI, and Apple says it can understand a document's context to design and refine slides in Keynote, draft and restructure text in Pages, and suggest chart types and build custom tables in Numbers.

The support for the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27 or later is a separate opening: it lets third-party AI agents plug into the same apps, so the assistant Apple ships may not be the only one working inside a document. The assistant itself is rolling out in beta to devices compatible with Apple Intelligence, across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 or later.

The same announcement bundles updates across Apple's creative tools. Pixelmator Pro gains a Generate Fill feature that edits part of an image from a description and, according to Apple, matches the lighting, perspective, and texture of the surroundings. Logic Pro for Mac and iPad gets a Liquid Glass redesign and an AI assistant that can set up a vocal track from a single prompt, plus a redesigned Browser on Mac that uses on-device AI to analyze, classify, and tag sounds. Final Cut Pro adds templates, graphics, titles, and transitions through MotionVFX and builds in a Content Hub with stock videos, photos, and backgrounds. Those Creator's Studio updates will be free to existing subscribers in November.