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That's a weird answer, Keynote can shares presentations, and multiple people can work on the same presentation in real-time, either on the macOS/iOS or the web version. The feature has been available for years: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/keynote/tan4e89e275c/m...

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> Note: Not all Keynote features are available for a shared presentation.

That's the main issue. But also this happened about six years ago.

The collaboration features were introduced in 2013 on the web version, and in 2016 on the native versions. And maybe check which features are actually not available before dismissing it.

Maybe the person who the op was talking about doesn’t work on Keynote and … secrecy … they missed the memo?

What memo? :)

Six years ago Keynote supported simultaneous editing through share with iCloud

yeah, that's where all the top level production places want to store their pre release.

They say that iCloud is end to end encrypted so…

> To collaborate on a shared presentation, people you share with need any of the following:

> A Mac with macOS 14.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

> An iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

> An iPad with iPadOS 17.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

Those OSes were released around June of 2023, so a little over a year?

The documentation always refers to the current versions of the software, and the latest version of iWork always requires being on latest or near-latest OS. Collaboration also requires all clients to be on the latest version of the software.

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