Preview for Mac Is Finally Coming to Your IPad
I admit, I do most of my work on Windows or Android, but if there’s one app I always miss on macOS, it’s Preview. This simple app, ostensibly an image viewer, is also the best way to read and even (sometimes) edit PDFs. And at WWDC 2025, Apple announced that Preview is finally coming to iPad .
It’s hard to overstate how much joy this relatively minor announcement brings me. Sure, Apple is breaking the language barrier and bringing resizable windows to the iPad. But is it all a fair trade if you still have to open the Books app just to read a three-page PDF? Not if you ask me. Might as well stay in the Stone Age.
When used on a Mac, Preview is extremely lightweight and doesn’t have a lot of editing tools, but the ones it does have are fantastic: you can extract a single page from a PDF or rearrange the pages in a long document. It’s the kind of thankless utility that doesn’t get much attention, but is really useful when you need it.
I don’t think I’m exaggerating (too much) when I say that this is the biggest revolution in mobile computing since the invention of the touchscreen.