Apple will update iWork suite with trackpad support and iCloud folder sharing

Enlarge / The keyboard and trackpad attachment for the iPad Pro. (credit: Apple)

In the notes for its iPad Pro announcement earlier today, Apple announced a couple of major new features coming to the iWork suite that are specifically oriented around new offerings for the iPad.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote will all get full trackpad support on the platform, but they'll also gain iCloud Folder Sharing. "Collaboration will also become easier than ever with support for iCloud folder sharing and the ability to edit shared documents while offline," Apple wrote in its newsroom article.

Users have been asking for iCloud folder sharing for a while, and there have been indications that the company has been working on it for a while, but it hadn't come to fruition yet. In fact, it seems to have been delayed before.

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