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What are your memories of iWork between 2014 and 2017? Did you stick with Pages, or flee to Word? Let me know in the comments.

By 2017, iWork had regained nearly all the lost pro features. Categories returned to Numbers. Master pages revived. But the soul had shifted. The purity of 2014’s redesign was now cluttered with “restored” dropdowns and toggles. all+apple+iwork+20142017

We talk a lot about Apple’s “golden eras.” The iMac G3. The iPod Classic. The 2015 MacBook Pro. But there is a quieter, more controversial chapter buried in the Cupertino archives: What are your memories of iWork between 2014 and 2017

2017 — Archiving, Leaving, Returning By spring of 2017, Maya was moving cities. She packed the MacBook with a care that felt like ceremony and uploaded every last file to iCloud Drive. One evening, before the drive, she opened Pages and found the original sentence she’d written three years ago. She added a new line: “I am leaving these sentences like breadcrumbs.” She exported the collection as a PDF, saved a duplicate to an external drive, and printed a single copy on creamy paper. The print smelled faintly of toner and the café where she’d been writing. By 2017, iWork had regained nearly all the lost pro features

iWork maintained its reputation for high-end design, offering templates and cinematic transitions (especially in Keynote) that outperformed competitors in visual polish.