Apple Removing Keynote App's Presentation Sharing Feature in Future Update

[MacRumors]

Apple plans to remove the Keynote Live feature in a future version of its Keynote app, according to a new support document. The feature allows for a presentation to be played over the internet in the Keynote app on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Apple recommends using screen sharing to share a Keynote presentation in apps such as FaceTime, Zoom, and Webex, with steps outlined in the document.

Apple updated the Keynote app for both iOS and macOS this week with Apple Pencil hover support, the ability to export and send a copy of a presentation in a different format right from the Share menu, and various other improvements and bug fixes. Apple did not indicate exactly when the Keynote Live feature will be removed.

Article Link: Apple Removing Keynote App's Presentation Sharing Feature in Future Update

 

[Verified Whiskey]

What! Dang. I use that all the time. I wonder if it’s a security vulnerability or if it’s just a feature they thought nobody uses?

 

[macsplusmacs]

What! Dang. I use that all the time. I wonder if it’s a security vulnerability or if it’s just a feature they thought nobody uses?

prob. easier for them to have a single source of app streaming.

I look forward to trying this out.

 

[sublunar]

Sounds like it might easier to support between ios and MacOS versions?

 

[MrCubes]

"Hey they really love it when we say, 'no new features'. What could be better than that? How about 'negative features'"

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

So why is this getting removed?

 

[Benjamins]

So why is this getting removed?

screen sharing is such an integral part of those team conference software anyway, having this seems redundant.

 

[mattaaron]

Man Keynote is truly one of the best all around programs out there that I think is a bit hidden not many know about. I use it for so many things:

• At work for presentations
• At work for diagrams, charts, analytical things
• At home for weight tracking sheets, Siri cheat sheets, movies/games coming out, etc
• As a Video Editor, an alternative to iMovie (there's a bunch you can do in Keynote you can't do in iMovie)
• As a Photo Editor, some quick editing of photos (colors, removing backgrounds, adding elements, shapes, etc)
• As a GIF maker, import a video, edit it, export it as a GIF
• I've used it to create a bunch of pre-roll trailers/movies/clips for my Plex server

Anyway just finished going to the bathroom otherwise I'd list a ton more, but man Keynote has changed my life in the Apple ecosystem world. I think one day they could combine Pages, Numbers and even iMovie and put it all into Keynote.

 

[MasterHowl]

I absolutely love Keynote.

I remember in 2008 Apple had a series of 'how to' videos on their website for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers (called iWork back then). I watched all of them two or three times in the months before I bought my first MacBook (I washed dishes in a local cafe to save up enough money) because I was sooooo excited about getting a Mac. Using Magic Move for the first time felt magic (no pun intended!).

Fifteen years later and I still use Keynote weekly. I made all of the figures for my PhD thesis in it, and now I use it for all of my public lectures and academic talks.

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

I still kind of miss the old pre-iOS-ified versions of iWork. They felt like full tools.

 

[eatrains]

I still kind of miss the old pre-iOS-ified versions of iWork. They felt like full tools.

What makes them full tools and the current versions incomplete?

 

[Unregistered 4U]

screen sharing is such an integral part of those team conference software anyway, having this seems redundant.

Yeah, I wouldn’t doubt that Apple has metrics showing that the use of the service has dropped off significantly since the rise of those other services.

 

[orbital~debris]

Some people here talking as though Keynote is being retired.

Nope, just the ‘Keynote Live’ feature of Keynote.

 

[DigitalAR]

I loved this feature and used it all the time. Haven't used it in a while, but there's no true reason for them to remove it.

Also, does anyone know how to create a very long Keynote presentation file?

My most recently created thread here in MR I'm inquiring as how to create a Keynote Presentation file meant to last 3 years long, with the intention of each keynote slide lasting 24 hours, each changing once a day and having about 1,000 slides. Eventually this file will go on an iPad that'll always be plugged in and on.

 

[NT1440]

SharePlay integration.

 

[dr_lha]

Speaking as someone who gives talks online with Keynote all the time: I never used it. Everyone just uses whatever Zoom style app to share slides. My guess is that Apple felt no need to maintain the infrastructure for something that barely anyone uses.

 

[shaun3000]

You can play a slideshow via FaceTime screen sharing and you can send FaceTime links to virtually any device so the Live feature does seem redundant. But it’s also way less convoluted than the aforementioned method. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Junior117]

This is incredibly disappointing.

They could have used this as a niche: build it further into a Zoom-like function, where people can be invited to the stream, add comments, and the presenter can share their screen. This was a nice accessibility feature as well: if you're in a lecture, and you're unable to see the text properly, the presenter could give you a short link that lets you into the presentation. That way, those that can see their computers, but can't see the larger screen (I know it sounds silly, but I'm not joking when I say that this is the case with some people: they just don't really complain; no, the front doesn't exactly help, since, what if there's glare on the screen?) can view and see the presentation. This isn't limited to college/university lectures: I'm referring to presentations in general. Add Live Text for video, as well as pause and rewind the stream, and they may have something here.

I imagine that they're removing it because their stats showed it was seldom used, but it still isn't less disappointing. 😕

(Of course, I may or may not be upset about this because I actually used this feature a lot, and now I have to get my clients to download an app in order to view my work since it is only required a web browser, and because allowing me to use Keynote Live lets me put my computer in the "Presentation View" so I can see my notes while presenting...)

 

[fontman]

Apple plans to remove the Keynote Live feature in a future version of its Keynote app, according to a new support document. The feature allows for a presentation to be played over the internet in the Keynote app on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Apple recommends using screen sharing to share a Keynote presentation in apps such as FaceTime, Zoom, and WebEx, with steps outlined in the document.

Apple updated the Keynote app for both iOS and macOS this week with Apple Pencil hover support, the ability to export and send a copy of a presentation in a different format right from the Share menu, and various other improvements and bug fixes. Apple did not indicate exactly when the Keynote Live feature will be removed.

Article Link: Apple Removing Keynote App's Presentation Sharing Feature in Future Update

The Greek god lord, Apple Computer, giveth, and then take it away.

 

[JosephAW]

I thought we were done with dumbing down applications but I guess not.
How to figure out other ways to do things now.

 

[ian87w]

screen sharing is such an integral part of those team conference software anyway, having this seems redundant.

The idea of this feature is for audience to be able to see the slides right on their own devices in meetings instead of trying to see a blurry screen at the edge of the meeting room. It’s actually an ingenious idea.

Not sure why this is removed. I’m guessing Tim Apple want to cut cost on server usages.

 

[ian87w]

I didn't even know this was a feature... I find the iWork (or whatever they're called today) suite of apps to be inferior to Microsoft Office.

And now they keep taking away ingenious features to make it even less desirable to use. 😂

 

[szw-mapple fan]

I still kind of miss the old pre-iOS-ified versions of iWork. They felt like full tools.

This was true when they first iOS-ified it, but the old missing features from iWork 9 are mostly all back now. The new tabbed interface is a lot better than iWork 9 imo, and vastly superior to the ribbon on PPT or the mess on Google Slides.

 

[maxoakland]

I still kind of miss the old pre-iOS-ified versions of iWork. They felt like full tools.

I think it’s gotten back most of the features they removed

 

[mdriftmeyer]

So why is this getting removed?

Better to use Services via FaceTime than to embed code that can rot internal to the application.