In this release, many templates, as well as some advanced features that were available in version 4.3, were not included.
On October 23, 2013, Apple released a redesign with Pages 5.0 and made it free for anyone with an iOS device. Pages for iOS 1.7.1 introduced better compatibility with Word and Pages for Mac, and version 1.7.2, released on March 7, 2013, merely added stability improvements and bugfixes. Pages for OS X was updated to version 4.3 on December 4, 2012, to support Pages 1.7 for iOS, which was released on the same day. iOS Pages was updated to version 1.6 on March 7, 2012, and will only run on iOS 5.1 or later. On October 12, 2011, Apple updated the iOS app to version 1.5, adding the iCloud 'Documents in the Cloud' feature. On May 31, 2011, Apple updated the iOS version of Pages to 1.4, bringing universal binaries, allowing the app to be run on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. On January 27, 2010, Apple announced a new version of Pages for iPad with a touch interface. On January 6, 2009, Apple released the fourth version of Pages as a component of iWork '09.