I admit, I do most of my work on Home windows or Android, but when there’s one app I at all times miss from macOS, it is Preview. This straightforward app, ostensibly an image-viewer, can be hands-down one of the best ways to learn and even (typically) edit PDFs. And at WWDC 2025, Apple introduced that Preview is lastly coming to iPads.
It is exhausting to overstate how a lot pleasure this comparatively minor announcement brings me. Certain, Apple is breaking down the language barrier, and bringing resizable home windows to the iPad. However is all of {that a} honest commerce for those who nonetheless should open the Books app simply to learn a three-page PDF? No, not for those who ask me. Might as nicely nonetheless be within the stone age.
Used on a Mac, Preview is extraordinarily light-weight and does not include a whole lot of enhancing instruments, however the ones it does include are unbelievable: You possibly can extract a single web page from a PDF, or reorder pages in a protracted doc. It is the form of thankless utility that does not get a lot fanfare however is available in really helpful once you want it.
What do you assume up to now?
I do not assume I am exaggerating (an excessive amount of) once I say that is the one greatest revolution in cellular computing because the invention of the touchscreen.
