The Mac's Preview App 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 from macOS, it's Preview. This simple app, ostensibly an image-viewer, is also hands-down the best way to read and even (sometimes) edit PDFs. And at WWDC 2025, Apple announced that Preview is finally coming to iPads.

It's hard to overstate how much joy this relatively minor announcement brings me. Sure, Apple is breaking down the language barrier, and bringing resizable windows to the iPad. But is all of that a fair trade if you still have to open the Books app just to read a three-page PDF? No, not if you ask me. May as well still be in the stone age.

Used on a Mac, Preview is extremely lightweight and doesn't come with a lot of editing tools, but the ones it does come with are fantastic: You can extract a single page from a PDF, or reorder pages in a long document. It's the kind of thankless utility that doesn't get much fanfare but comes in truly handy when you need it.

I don't think I'm exaggerating (too much) when I say this is the single biggest revolution in mobile computing since the invention of the touchscreen.