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.
