Apple has made GarageBand, iMovie, Numbers, Pages and Keynote free to all Mac and iOS users on the App Store. All of the programs have been free since 2013 with a new Mac or iOS device purchase (and by extension to any other device owned by the user since all purchases are shared between multiple devices courtesy of the App Store), but now the company has made them free to anyone.
With the exception of iMovie, the latest versions of all the apps require iOS 10 or later, and since the iPhone 5 is the only device capable of running iOS 10 that came out before the apps went free, most users with devices capable of running the newest versions will already have received them for free with new device purchases. But for those with devices that couldn’t make the leap to iOS 10, we tested the downloads on a fifth-generation iPod Touch running iOS 9.3 and found that Apple still offers the older versions of the apps for devices that are unable to run the most recent version, so users with older devices will still be able to take advantage of the change.
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