OS X gota big updateWednesday morning in the form of Mountain Lion , including support for Documents in the Cloud , Apple ’s iCloud service for wirelessly sync your data file between computers . Not to be get out in the rubble by the likes of TextEdit and Preview , however , the Mac version of Apple ’s three iWork apps also received update to enable access to files store in iCloud .
Apple conspicuously have Pages iCloud sync on its OS X Mountain Lion site .
It ’s scarcely a surprisal to see iWork Update 9.2 now : Apple preview Documents in the Cloud documentation for iWork at the last calendar month ’s Worldwide Developers Conference ; the company had also been showcasing a screenshot of Pages synced across all Apple gadget on itsOS X website . As the iWork apps are n’t bundled with OS X , however , they would n’t get document in the Cloud supporting as part of an operating system upgrade — hence , the separate update on Wednesday .
Apple prominently featured Pages iCloud sync on its OS X Mountain Lion website.
Documents in the Cloud , which get apps access files store in iCloud , work similarly to the iWork apps as it does withTextEdit , Preview , or any third - party iCloud - enabled app . When you spread , say , Pages , you ’ll be greeted with iCloud ’s Document Library and any filing cabinet you may have created or saved there .
The files themselves can be opened , devise by name or date , put into folder — iOS style — by dredge one single file on top of another , or distributed via the Share carte du jour . you’re able to also create new single file by clicking on the New Document clit , or simulate a filing cabinet from your computer — or a different Document Library — by dragging it over to your library .
Cloudy , with a chance of document : Now you could get at iWork document stored in iCloud on your Mac . As the iWork apps are available on both OS X and iOS , they have the added advantage of being able to get at any Pages , Numbers , or Keynote Indian file you ’ve lay aside to iCloud , disregardless of whether you create them on your Mac , iPad , or iPhone . This arrive at edit out document between equipment that much quiet — and comes in especially ready to hand when you ’re trying to pick off that last bit of presentation on your iPhone ten minute before you ’re plant to go on - degree .
Cloudy, with a chance of documents: Now you can access iWork documents stored in iCloud on your Mac.
Additionally , the update adds Retina - ready graphics and support for Mountain Lion ’s unexampled Dictation feature ; Applehas released a document on its websitewith more selective information .
If you own Pages , Numbers , or Keynote , you may download the update for free from the Mac App Store , via Software Update , or a standalone installer on Apple ’s Downloads pageboy ; though you may set up the update on Lion , you ’ll take to be run Mountain Lion to take advantage of Documents in the Cloud and Dictation . raw users can buy each app in the iWork suite for $ 10 .
In addition to the Mac versions of iWork , Apple also released updates to the mobile components of its productivity suite on Wednesday . The 1.6.1 interlingual rendition of Keynote , Numbers , and Pages work with iCloud to make presentment , spreadsheet , and text file available between your iOS gadget and your Mac .
