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  01 July 2026

  UPDATE

  Apple Creator Studio gets?smarter, faster and more?connected

  Updates bring new integrations with Pixelmator?Pro across Final?Cut?Pro, Keynote, Pages and Numbers; even more intelligent tools in Final?Cut?Pro; the ability to generate shapes to further customise a project; and a new Producer Project in Logic?Pro

  Apple today introduced power-packed updates to Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking collection of creative apps that build on the essential role Mac, iPad and iPhone play in the lives of millions around the world. Featuring new AI capabilities that are dynamic enough for every creative discipline, these updates make Apple Creator Studio even more connected, capable and intelligent. Users can open and customise any image placed in Keynote, Pages and Numbers, or even send a key frame from Final?Cut?Pro directly to Pixelmator?Pro. Logic Pro users can elevate their music making with improvements to Chord?ID or explore a new Producer Project from a Grammy Award–winning producer.

  Even More AI-Powered Workflow Solutions

  Final Cut Pro, the ultimate video creation app for Mac and iPad, enhances creative workflows with a new set of powerful AI tools like Generate Captions and Edit Detection, along with new content like Creator Themes with support for multiple aspect ratios, dynamic titles and customisable backgrounds.¹ On Mac, users also benefit from even more tools like Auto Mask, an enhanced Match Colour, Advanced Trimming and the ability to send frames to Pixelmator?Pro.

  Leveraging the power of on-device AI, Generate Captions, one of the most requested features, lets users automatically transcribe audio and place the resulting subtitles perfectly in the timeline.² Options to animate the style and customise font, colour and position give editors the flexibility to add their personal style to any project. On-device AI also powers Edit Detection, which analyses rendered video and automatically splits it back into the original clips on the timeline. Editors can jump back in to refine their edit, or quickly assemble a cut-down highlight clip for sharing on social media, without having to manually identify previous edit points.

  Mac users can take advantage of Auto Mask, a new way to isolate and refine specific elements of footage. On-device AI recognises subjects like skin, hair, sky, foliage and clothing, with no manual tracking needed. A simple hover over a clip brings up a live preview of what has been detected, or users can choose from the list in the inspector, making it seamless to pair the mask with any colour correction or effect for precise adjustments. Auto Mask works hand in hand with Magnetic Mask, which gives editors complete control over exactly what to identify, track and mask. Also on Mac, a re-imagined Match Colour produces more accurate and natural colour matches across a wider range of footage and lighting conditions. Editors select a reference frame and Final Cut Pro analyses shots to bring them into perfect harmony, with the option to refine as needed. And Advanced Trimming allows users to fine-tune incoming and outgoing frames one at a time.

  Users can also take advantage of meaningful updates in Motion and Compressor. Motion adds native support to keep vector graphics crisp at any resolution, along with Distribute Layers for a dramatically faster setup of complex animations.³ Compressor introduces an Immersive Metadata Viewer, 180-degree Apple Projected Media Profile support for Apple?Vision?Pro, and an Anaglyph View for Stereoscopic Video Preview.⁴

  Creatives can also take advantage of updates to Final Cut Camera, the free video capture app for iPhone and iPad, now with support for Clean HDMI Out, sending a pristine video signal to external monitors and recorders. Expanded ProRes support, including ProRes LT, offers more flexible options for choosing the right codec for any production, and users can now disable digital zoom to guarantee that every frame captured is at full optical resolution.⁵

  Powerful New Image Editing and Graphics Tools

  The power of Pixelmator Pro is now at users’ fingertips anywhere they need it across Apple?Creator?Studio.⁶ Final Cut Pro users can now send a chosen frame directly to Pixelmator?Pro, create customised thumbnails or social media graphics, and easily drop their content back into the timeline without interrupting their flow. In Keynote, Pages and Numbers, users can select any image within a document, open it directly in Pixelmator?Pro and edit with the full suite of tools.⁷ Changes are automatically saved back in the document, and users can return to Pixelmator Pro at any time to continue refining their graphic.

  In Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Pages and Numbers, it’s now easy to generate vector shapes to fit any project. Users can refine their shapes as desired, and shapes are saved to a dedicated collection for use at a later time. Advanced image generation and the Content Hub also expand to Pixelmator?Pro.⁸ With image generation, users can create and edit images using natural language, and in the Content Hub, they can browse a curated collection of premium photos, graphics, shapes and illustrations to inspire new designs.

  Keynote, Pages and Numbers are also adding some highly requested features for all users: Keynote gains stunning new transitions and builds; Pages on iPhone and iPad adds Auto-Hyphenate and Show Invisibles for more precise editing; and Numbers makes navigating complex spreadsheets faster than ever with the ability to hide or colour-code individual sheets. And with iOS?27, iPadOS?27 and macOS?27, Freeform will also add the ability to generate shapes⁹ and open an image in Pixelmator?Pro, in addition to introducing Dark Mode, folders to organise boards and support for drawing on Mac.

  Taking Music Creation Further

  Updates to Logic Pro for Mac and iPad make music creation even more intelligent, immediate and inspiring for users.¹⁰

  Chord?ID has been rebuilt to bring even more accuracy to harmonic analysis, including extended chords and inversions even if they are played on a distorted guitar or a slightly out-of-tune piano. This results in Session Players that quickly respond and perform chord changes with greater ease.¹¹

  A new Producer Project reveals the complete Logic Pro session behind “Shoulda Never”, produced by Khris Riddick-Tynes. Every multitrack recording, MIDI performance and vocal take is preserved exactly as it was built, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look inside a professional session.

  For Logic?Pro and MainStage, a new granular sync mode in Alchemy — Logic Pro’s flagship sample-manipulation synthesiser — opens up entirely new dimensions of sound design.¹² To complement this, users can explore the new Granular Alchemy Sound Pack, which offers a curated collection of loops and presets built specifically for this new mode. Additionally, Beat Breaker expands across Mac and iPad with new filter and pan modes and intuitive randomisation controls, making it easier than ever to discover fills and rhythmic variations.

  Pricing and Availability

  • Apple Creator Studio updates are available today for existing subscribers as a free update, and for new subscribers, NZ$24.99 inc. GST per month or NZ$249 inc. GST per year. All new subscribers will enjoy a one-month free trial of Apple Creator Studio, and with the purchase of a new Mac or qualifying iPad¹³, customers could receive three months of Apple Creator Studio for free.¹⁴

  • Education savings are available for university students and educators for NZ$4.99 inc. GST per month or NZ$49 inc. GST per year.¹⁵

  • Apple Creator Studio is available to download on the App Store as a universal purchase.

  • Up to six family members can share all of the apps and content included in Apple Creator Studio with Family Sharing.

  • One-time-purchase versions of Final Cut Pro (NZ$499.99 inc. GST), Logic Pro (NZ$399.99 inc. GST), Pixelmator Pro (NZ$99.99 inc. GST), Motion (NZ$99.99 inc. GST), Compressor (NZ$99.99 inc. GST) and MainStage (NZ$49.99 inc. GST) are available on the Mac App Store.¹⁶
    

  • Free versions of Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform continue to be available and are included with every new iPhone, Mac and iPad.

  1. The Apple Creator Studio version of Final Cut Pro on Mac requires macOS?15.6 or later. Some features require Apple silicon. Final Cut Pro for iPad requires iPadOS?18.6 or later and an iPad, iPad?Pro or iPad?Air with an Apple?M1 chip or later, iPad (A16) or iPad?mini (A17?Pro).
  2. Generate Captions in Final Cut Pro requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS?15.6 or later; or an iPad with the Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16) or iPad mini (A17 Pro), and iPadOS 26 or later. Available only in US English.
  3. Motion requires macOS?15.6 or later.
  4. Compressor requires macOS?15.6 or later. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.
  5. Final Cut Camera requires an iPhone with iOS?18.6 or later, or an iPad with iPadOS?18.6 or later. Expanded ProRes support requires iPhone?13?Pro or later, and Clean HDMI Out requires iPhone?17?Pro.
  6. The Apple Creator Studio version of Pixelmator Pro requires macOS?26 or later. Pixelmator Pro for iPad requires iPadOS?26 or later and an iPad, iPad?Pro or iPad?Air with an Apple?M1 chip or later; iPad (A16); or iPad?mini (A17?Pro).
  7. The Apple Creator Studio version of Keynote, Pages and Numbers requires iOS?18 or later, iPadOS?18 or later, or macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. Some intelligent features require iOS?26, iPadOS?26 or macOS?Tahoe.
  8. Image Generation and Shape Generation require iPhone?15?Pro or iPhone?15 Pro?Max or later running iOS?26 or later; an iPad with an A17?Pro chip, or an iPad?Pro or iPad?Air with an M1 chip or later, running iPadOS?26 or later; or a Mac with Apple silicon running macOS?26 or later and an Apple Account with iCloud enabled. Some artificial intelligence features of Apple Creator Studio utilise third-party models and may have usage limits and restrictions. Image Generation and Shape Generation in Pixelmator Pro require an Apple Intelligence–capable device. For a list of Apple Intelligence availability and technical requirements, see support.apple.com/121115 for more information.
  9. New updates to Freeform will be available to current subscribers as a free software update with a compatible iPhone, iPad or Mac running iOS?27, iPadOS?27 or macOS?27.
  10. Logic?Pro for Mac requires macOS?15.6 or later, and a Mac with Apple silicon. Logic?Pro for iPad requires iPadOS?26 or later and an iPad with Apple A12?Bionic chip or later. Some features require Apple A17?Pro chip or later.
  11. Session Players require iPad with the Apple?M1 chip or later, or a Mac with Apple silicon.
  12. MainStage requires macOS?15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon.
  13. A new Mac or iPad purchased from Apple or an Apple Authorised Reseller. iPad must have at least 6GB memory and an A16, A17?Pro or M-series chip or later.
  14. New and qualified returning subscribers only. Plan renews at NZ$24.99 inc. GST per month or NZ$249 inc. GST per year based on plan selected. Only one offer per Apple Account and only one offer per family if they’re part of a Family Sharing group, regardless of the number of devices that they or their family purchase. This offer is not available if the account holder or their family have previously accepted an Apple Creator Studio subscription three months free offer. Offer is good for three months after eligible device is activated. Plan automatically renews until cancelled. Restrictions and other terms apply.
  15. New subscribers only. Education Savings Plan automatically renews at NZ$4.99 inc. GST per month or NZ$49 inc. GST per year based on plan selected until cancelled. Offer good for university students and educators only and does not extend to a Family Sharing group. Verification required. Terms apply. Limited-time offer; offer may end at any time.
  16. The one-time-purchase versions of Final Cut Pro require macOS?15.6 or later, Logic Pro requires macOS?15.6 or later, and Pixelmator Pro requires macOS?12 or later. MainStage is available for any Mac supported by macOS?15.6 or later. Motion requires macOS?15.6 or later. Compressor requires macOS?15.6 or later, and some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.

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