ICloud – How to share Keynote presentations and perform collaborative editing on iCloud

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Apple states that iCloud is the perfect platform for building presentations with the web-based keynote and for sharing and collaborating on documents.

I cannot figure out how to share a Keynote presentation so that two people can edit the document without having to email it back and forth. Is there a way to do this? I would also like to edit the document at the same time with someone else, as I can with Google.

Best Answer

I save the document on my Mac or my iPad and then quit keynote.

Then I open https://www.icloud.com/#keynote in Safari 9 on a computer (most other newishly updated browsers work too)

If you don't see the "coaching tips" - click the white ? in the white circle in the top right next to your name.

  1. Double click your keynote you want to share. (It might take a while to load the first presentation - so be patient while it loads)
  2. Now look in the "top bar" of the web browser window to the left of the ? are in order: your name, a wrench, and the share icon. enter image description here
  3. Click the box with the up arrow
  4. Share away. This generates a URL you can copy to SMS/message/email/post as well as prompts you if you want read only or write access and lets you optionally set a password.

You can also share from iOS keynote and Mac keynote, but the steps there depend more on the version you are running.

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