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Editor iPhone

Presenter for iPhone and iPad is currently in beta testing. Sign up for the waitlist here.

The Editor is where the magic happens: writing your narrative, adding visuals, and turning your content into slides.

Unlike iA Presenter on Mac, on iPhone the Editor will be fullscreen by default. You can easily preview slide thumbnails by swiping right from the left edge of your screen. Swipe left to close the preview.

The Editor screen. The Thumbnails preview in the Editor.

Start Writing

When you open iA Presenter on your iPhone you’ll first see our Fast Love in-app tutorial. To remove it and start writing your narrative, select all text and press Delete.

💡 If you no longer need the tutorial and prefer to start with a different or blank presentation, go to SettingsGeneralDefault Presentation and add your own template text, or delete it altogether.

Start by writing your narrative, the story you want to tell. As you write, format your text using Markdown. You can also import existing text—from iA Writer, for example.

New Slides and Layouts

To create a new slide, either type three dashes ---, enter two line breaks, or open the onscreen keyboard, select the Lightning Menu on the right and select Slide Break from the menu.

If you need a specific layout for your slide, click the + on the toolbar on the bottom left.

Open the Add Slide with Content from the bottom left of the toolbar. The Add Slide with Content menu.

Presentation Options

In the Title Bar’s centre, click on the presentation’s name to rename it.

Under the Title Bar you’ll find a timer that estimates how long your presentation will take, based on your narrative. The time estimate updates in real-time as you write and edit.

Formatting Text

If you don’t know Markdown yet, open the onscreen keyboard, select the Lightning menu on the right and select a formatting option. From here, you can also configure what formatting options you’ll see.

Open the Lightning menu from the bottom-right of the keyboard bar. Configure the Lightning menu. Actions options ready to add to the Lightning menu.

The first category in the Text menu is called Spoken Text. Most of your narrative will probably be spoken text, but you can add lists or quotes here too.

💡 Keep in mind that any text in the Spoken Text category won’t appear on your slides, but you’ll see it when you present.

Content visible on slide and Spoken notes. Only content preceded by a tab is visible on the slides.

Find Your Focus

With iA Presenter you can easily cut out all distractions while you’re writing.

Use iA Writer’s famous Focus Mode, which we integrated into iA Presenter too. Enable Focus Mode via the Text Size button AA.

Enable Focus Mode via the Text Size button in the Toolbar. Focus Mode ON.

💡 Compared to iA Writer, Focus Mode in iA Presenter works slightly differently. Instead of highlighting a paragraph or a sentence as in iA Writer, Focus Mode in iA Presenter focuses on the slide you’re writing.

Multi-Color Code

You’ll notice that your cursor and slide titles gradually change color from blue to gold. Sure, it’s pretty—but it also shows you in which phase you are in a presentation:

Blue is a cold start.

Purple is warming up.

Red is when things get hot.

Orange prepares you for a sweet end.

Gold is the afterglow.

The cursor in blue color. Farther down the presentation, the cursor in gold color.

💡 Keep in mind that the colors you see in the Editor don’t affect the theme you choose.

Changing Editor Settings

You can tweak how the Editor looks and works via:

For example, you can switch between iA’s Mono, Duo and Quattro variable fonts, set up spelling, and more.

Access the Settings from the Text Size button. Access the Settings from the Library. The Editor's Settings menu.

Contact Us

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Editor

Editor Mac

The central Editor panel is where the magic happens: writing your narrative, adding visuals, and turning your content into slides. Start Writing When you open iA Presenter on your iPad you’ll first see our Fast Love in-app tutorial. To remove it and start writing your narrative, select all text and press delete. 💡 If you

Editor iPhone

Presenter for iPhone and iPad is currently in beta testing. Sign up for the waitlist here. The Editor is where the magic happens: writing your narrative, adding visuals, and turning your content into slides. Unlike iA Presenter on Mac, on iPhone the Editor will be fullscreen by default. You can easily preview slide thumbnails by

Editor iPad

Presenter for iPhone and iPad is currently in beta testing. Sign up for the waitlist here. The central Editor panel is where the magic happens: writing your narrative, adding visuals, and turning your content into slides. Start Writing When you open iA Presenter on your iPad you’ll first see our Fast Love in-app tutorial. To