I have IWork 09 and want to upgrade

All you need is the Installer on the DVD.

Get access to a computer with a DVD drive and copy the Installer from the DVD onto a USB flash drive, then stick that into your Mac and run the Installer, install iWork '09 onto your Mac.

After you have installed iWork '09 onto your Mac update that with the 4.3 updater here and you will have a fully functional version of the iWork Apps on your Mac.

The App Store will recognise that and Pages 6.05 etc will be available for installation with no charge.

Peter

iWork 09 hasen't been supported for several years; they have been offering separate apps such as Pages, Numbers, etc. in the app store. You would need to purchase them separately. There was a window some years ago when Apple offered iWork owners to register their products which made them eligible for the upgrades; however, that program was discontinued several years ago.

Your choices now are either purchasing the apps or you will get them when you buy a new Mac.

Here is the info on Pages:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id409201541?mt=12&ls=1&v0=www-us-mac-pages -app-pages

Thanks for pointing that out.

1. If you have iWork '08 or '09 installed on any Mac you can install Pages, Numbers and Keynote free from the App Store.

At this point, I am unable to test that and, since Apple regularly drops support for legacy/older products, I assumed that the free upgrade offer was discontinued (and iWork installs do not carry over in erase/reinstall OS instances - they disappear). I took advantage of the offer back in 2014 to "register" my iWork 09 in the app store and have received updates since then. From what I've read, there is no way to now update from iWork 09 to the latest versions of Pages, Numbers, etc. if they disappear after using recovery/erase/reinstall.

The offer was prior/close to the publication of the up to date program initiated in 2014:

http://www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/up-to-date/

2. If you bought a Mac after September 2013 then you can install Pages, Numbers and Keynote free from the App Store.

Yes - program was started in 9/2014 for Macs bought after 9/2013.

boneman113 wrote:

How do I upgrade my iWork 09 to the latest version? My searches for it in the apps store are fruitless.

It occurs to me that you are actually asking how to upgrade iWork '09 to v4.3?

Peter

There is no combined suite of the iWork apps anymore. Each are sold separately in the Mac App Store. However, all of the iWork apps sold by Apple since October, 2013, are much less capable that the iWork '09 apps. Pages alone is missing 100+ features that are in Pages 4.

What version of OS X/macOS are you running? Pages 6, Numbers 4 & Keynote 7 require Sierra, macOS 12.x. You need to update the OS before you can update the apps.

babowa

That is wrong.

There was no "window of opportunity" that was "discontinued".

These are the rules:

1. If you have iWork '08 or '09 installed on any Mac you can install Pages, Numbers and Keynote free from the App Store.

2. If you bought a Mac after September 2013 then you can install Pages, Numbers and Keynote free from the App Store.

3. If you do not fall into either category then the 3 Apps are chargeable.

In practice if you are in the 3rd category you can buy the iWork box set very cheaply from Amazon, install and upgrade that to v 4.3 and then also install the latest Pages, Numbers and Keynote free from the App Store.

Peter

Don't know where you read it, but all you have to do is reinstall iWork '09 as we have recommended hundreds, if not thousands, of times on this forum.

You could download Pages 5 etc from when they were first launched in October 2013 so long as you had a new Mac. Apple later took to pre-installing them on new Macs after a deluge of new users wondered where they are. Many users seem to still assume they are part of MacOS instead of separate Apps.

The whole process is typically ill thought through and convoluted with traps for the unwary.

As to "upgrading" to the latest versions, the only reason to do that is because they are free and you need to use them with iCloud and iOS. They are markedly inferior to the iWork '09 Apps.

Peter

The OP has not stated how they got the iWork '09 applications, and if they were originally purchased from the App Store as individual applications, or installed from the iWork '09 DVD.

The Apple iWork 9.3 updater is strictly for the DVD sourced applications, and will destroy iWork '09 applications individually purchased from the App Store.