Q: Keynote has really long delay for animations

  When I hit space to switch between slides without animations (see screenshot), there is a noticeable lag.

Pressing spacebar is the keyboard command to advance to next  build or transition

to Advance to the next slide without builds or transitions use;    shift down arrow

   I'm assuming this is because the presentation contains quite a few shapes on each slide, which keynote is calculating on the fly.

A Mac with the basic hardware spec for Mavericks should have no difficulty playing hundreds of objects on a single slide using any of the builds.

You either have a software or hardware issue.

Use the hardware test for your specific Mac to test RAM, graphics and processor performance.     How to run Mac Hardware test

Still looking for them. Is there a fix in the works?

Still looking for them. Is there a fix in the works?

What are you looking for, you need to describe what your trying to achieve, we can't see your computer.

Apple do not announce details of updates prior to release

Having a similar problem.

Have a slide with a magic move transition. Duration is 0.2 seconds. Animation is triggered on click and happens immediately as expected.

However, if I create a link to another slide, upon clicking the link, there is about a 0.5 second delay before the transition begins.

Without the transition, but with the link, the slide changes immediately as expected.

This is most definitely a bug in Keynote. I have the same problem when I have a Cinema display connected via Mini Displayport. When I unplug the external monitor, there is no delay. The slides transition instantaneously as expected.

I'm using a top-of-line Macbook Pro that I bought a month ago, so speed is not an issue. In fact, it shouldn't be an issue on a 5-year-old computer.

I have also just suffered this problem. I spent all yesterday afternoon going crazy at my desk trying to work out why a keynote i am assembling had an untraceable 0.5 to 2 second delay in animation response to interaction. In the evening when i got home the prototype worked flawlessly immediately on the same macbook as soon as i tried it, and continued to work all evening, and was still working this morning. However when I got back into the office and booted up the prototype …the chronic delay was instantly back. After a little investigation oddly it turns out that this delay seems to be caused by the second screen being attached to my laptop. I unplug the monitor and the delay is gone. Plug it back in and the delay is back… but even more oddly if I plug in the monitor and *close* the laptop …the delay is gone again. weird. really weird.

Hope that helps someone.

I am having this problem too, I am running a macbook pro retina to drive two outs, one to my main output source as well as a second driving my confidence monitor. The keynote presentation is only about 31 slides but has a lot of builds and movement. When I preview it directly from the machine without output sources. It seems to drive fine, when using multiple outs keynote seems to drag on, sometimes stopping for more like 5-10seconds if not. Its a fresh install of Yosemite, and Keynote, and an early 2014 MBPR. Please advise! This could make keynote non obsolete if the software doesn't get it together.

This can mean that your computer is slow. Which one are you currently using?

• How much RAM is installed?
• How much free space is on the hard drive?
• is there antivirus software installed?
• are there applications similar to macleaner / clean my Mac installed?

The 2014 MacBook Pro Retina

2.5 i7

2gb Nvidia gfx card

16gig ram

356gb of a 499gb remaining on Harddrive

No antivirus only connected to the Internet for app store updates

No cleaner apps on the Mac used for presentations and video playback only

It certainly shouldn't a hardware issue, it's barely a year old.

I Am also having the same sort of issues. Keynote has pretty much slowed down to the point of not being usable - especially not for actually presenting. Ran Apple Diagnostics and got a clean bill of health (which a 1 year old MB Pro should have). No antivirus or anything installed either. 8GB of RAM and lots of free space on the HDD. Not very impressed with it, will be reverting to Powerpoint and Google Docs as it was unusable.

I am having a similar issue. Keynote delays up to 5 s between animations, between slides, and even just exiting 'play' mode. Had anybody come across a solution??

Yes, very helpful! When you close your laptop lid while it is hooked up to an external screen, the delays disappear!