There was a glitch/workaround whereby you installed the iLife Trial suite and then you updated the app effectively giving you the full paid version for free. That's what I did.

That changed, It was only free on certain ipads, I bought a 16gb ipad air 2 a year ago and it wasn't free, only 64gb models and up

Heat

designaw - "Great to see them go free. I much prefer Pages and Numbers to Word and Excel"

IgnatiusJ - "Why do you say that designaw? They get such bad reviews. Just curious."

designaw - "I find the interface clearer and simpler to use and less cluttered and complex than Word and Excel. I've done a lot of complex layout projects on Word for clients and it is appalling, so many bugs with styles and so unreliable. I do my accounts with Numbers and it does everything I want it a much simpler and attractive manner. I do my own work on Pages and Numbers and client work in Word and Excel when I have too. I'm haven't read the reviews but I used Apple Works in the old days and the new apps are a great improvement and ideal for anyone looking for a suite with much of Office's functionality and compatibility but with a more polished and considered interface that feels like a made for Mac application rather than a port from Windows."

Thank you very much for your explanation. I really appreciate that.

I find the interface clearer and simpler to use and less cluttered and complex than Word and Excel. I've done a lot of complex layout projects on Word for clients and it is appalling, so many bugs with styles and so unreliable. I do my accounts with Numbers and it does everything I want it a much simpler and attractive manner. I do my own work on Pages and Numbers and client work in Word and Excel when I have too. I'm haven't read the reviews but I used Apple Works in the old days and the new apps are a great improvement and ideal for anyone looking for a suite with much of Office's functionality and compatibility but with a more polished and considered interface that feels like a made for Mac application rather than a port from Windows.

designaw - "Great to see them go free. I much prefer Pages and Numbers to Word and Excel"

Why do you say that designaw? They get such bad reviews. Just curious.

Great to see them go free. I much prefer Pages and Numbers to Word and Excel.

Cheers big ears. Heat added.

Apple won't start charging for the apps. This is a permanent price change. From now on they will always be free.

macrumors.com/201…rs/
(see update at the bottom of the page)

can I get these apps and not download them for now? don't need some of them but just incase they start charging for them again.

I just bought garageband last week on Mac

They were only free for the original purchaser of the mac. If you then wiped it and used a different account, you wouldn't have access to the apps anymore.

But if you bought your device before September 2013 you had to pay for it! So good for people who have older machines that don't want to or need to upgrade.

Always been free as far as I can recall.

Already on my iPhone SE?

They have been free for years for anyone who buys a new Apple Mac or iOS device

meh
I have office

Yes, I'd stick to Google Suite and not bother with Apple's apps.

let the Apple hating commence

Thanks OP. I have an early 2013 MBP Retina 15" and did not have any of these Apps. Have some well deserved heat! :sunglasses:

Thanks

Can I use Garageband on my iPhone 4?

They're all rated horribly

And there was me stupidly thinking, FREE Apple Devices?. :-(

Hehehehehe, oh well?, lol. ;-)

Well, this is very helpful actually!

These apps used to all be free. Until Apple decided to charge for them recently. (Meaning if you install a fresh copy of let's say; El Capitan, you'd notice that these applications aren't included.

Good find!

Love garageband and taught myself how to play a techno version of the ever so popular 'Shaddap ya face - Joe Dolce' just downloading Keynote now...have some heat OP.

I already own them, I want to uninstall them, then DL them again, for free.

I'm guessing what's left over are the samples and/or loops it downloads. They're stored in a different location in case you reinstall (so you don't have to redownload large files)

support.apple.com/en-…503

They've been free since September 2013 but only with new hardware purchases though

Please note kirkyuk's comment, some may be wasting time?

I wiped my mac then reinstalled Sierra and it was gone. Not why I did it but a welcome bonus :smile:

Heat added. Thank you.

toninhopapoose] "Probably because they've been free for years."

Not for all imacs. Slightly older ones didn't get them for free. Had to pay £19.99 like the OP says.

Oooh! The appstore app is also free!

Hmmm.. Never realised these were ever paid for.

Thanks for the heads up

Probably because they've been free for years.

No idea why this is not gaining more heat. Useful if you already own an iPad.

Keynote, Pages and Numbers is only free for 10.12 users

They're also currently free for iOS Devices !

GarageBand by Apple
https://appsto.re/gb/zQgxy.i

iMovie by Apple
https://appsto.re/gb/r0rFw.i

Keynote by Apple
https://appsto.re/gb/ODmIv.i

Pages by Apple
https://appsto.re/gb/EysIv.i

Numbers by Apple
appsto.re/gb/…v.i

Oooooo. Heat. Need about 1000 of each.
(seriously). Just purchased 5000 of each on VPP. Thanks OP.

Anyone managed to get rid of Garageband completely? It still takes up 2GB of storage space, despite uninstalling 4 times and deleting the application root folder! ... it reminds me of the AOL days when you installed the spam on the CD in order to get free dial-up for a month and then could never get rid of the stuff!

Added heat as good for people who don't know about it.