Apple has seeded iWork beta 4 to developers with added support for iCloud services in iOS 5. Developers can test the iCloud “Documents and Data” service to sync content wirelessly between iWork apps.
iOS 5 and iCloud should be unveiled to the public this Tuesday alongside the next iPhone. When iWork is officially updated with iCloud support, users will be able to create a document on one device and have it synced wirelessly across other devices and iCloud.com.
iBooks has also received a minor update to version 1.3.1 in the App Store. The update includes “important stability and performance improvements” that are most likely related to iOS 5.
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2 responses to “Apple Releases iWork Beta 4 with Added iCloud Integration”
Any idea whether the new mobile versions of iWork will be able to support everything the Mac versions can? Particularly font and image support in Pages, and merged cells in Numbers.
These are really basic features, and should have been included from the git-go- what use is layout/word processing without fonts?
Between that and the incredibly slow and kludgy file management, I’ve hardly used either of those applications since I figured out that, no, I wasn’t going to be able to just take my projects with me.