Apple just released new updates across its entire Apple Creator Studio suite. From AI-generated captions in Final Cut Pro to deeper Pixelmator Pro integration and a sharper Chord ID in Logic Pro, this release brings meaningful upgrades to Apple’s creative apps on iPadOS.

Here’s what’s new.

Final Cut Pro: AI Features That Are Actually Useful

Final Cut Pro 3.3 adds the Generate Captions feature, which finally brings AI-generated captions to Apple’s premier video editor.

Using on-device AI, Final Cut will automatically transcribe your audio and drop “perfectly placed” subtitles right into the timeline. Users can customize font, color, position, and animation style. I’m most excited to get my hands on this.

This Final Cut update also adds Edit Detection, which analyzes a rendered video and automatically splits it back into its original clips on the timeline. That means you can jump back into an old edit or quickly assemble a cut-down highlight reel for social media without manually hunting for edit points.

iPad also picks up Creator Themes, with support for multiple aspect ratios, dynamic titles, and customizable backgrounds.

Pixelmator Pro: Deeper Integration Across the Suite

This update’s biggest structural change might be how deeply Pixelmator Pro is now woven into the rest of the suite. On iPad, you can select any image inside Keynote, Pages, or Numbers, open it directly in Pixelmator Pro, and edit it with the app’s full toolset, without having to import and re-export the image. Changes save automatically back into your document, and you can return to Pixelmator Pro any time to keep refining.

In Final Cut Pro, you’ll be able to send a single frame directly into Pixelmator Pro so you can work on a thumbnail for YouTube or social media (something I do a lot).

A new vector shape generator is also rolling out across Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, letting you generate and refine shapes that get saved to a collection for reuse later.

Separately, advanced image generation and the Content Hub, a curated library of premium photos, graphics, shapes, and illustrations, are expanding to Pixelmator Pro, bringing it in line with what Keynote, Pages, and Numbers already had.

Worth noting: image and shape generation require an iPad with an A17 Pro chip or an iPad Pro/Air with M1 or later, running iPadOS 26.

Logic Pro: Smarter Chords and New Sounds

Musicians on iPad aren’t getting left out.

Chord ID has been substantially rebuilt, more accurately pinpointing chords across a wider range of styles, reliably identifying chords from solo guitar or piano even with distortion or tuning quirks, and better recognizing inversions (like slash voicings C/E) and richer chord flavors like 7ths, maj7s, and 6ths.

On the sound design side, a new granular sync mode in Alchemy opens up fresh sonic timbres and textures across Logic Pro and MainStage, paired with the new Granular Alchemy Sound Pack.

Beat Breaker also expands with new filter and pan modes plus randomization controls for discovering interesting fills.

And finally, a new “Producer Project” offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the complete Logic Pro session behind “Shoulda Never,” from the Grammy-winning team of Kehlani, Usher, and Khris Riddick-Tynes.

Smaller Changes

A few quality-of-life upgrades round out the iPad side of this release:

Pages adds Auto-Hyphenate and Show Invisibles for more precise text editing.

Numbers lets you hide or color-code individual sheets, making it easier to navigate complex spreadsheets.

Final Cut Camera adds Clean HDMI Out for sending a clean signal to external monitors, expanded ProRes support (including ProRes LT), and the option to disable digital zoom so every frame captured stays at full optical resolution.

These updates are free for existing Apple Creator Studio subscribers. New subscribers can sign up for $12.99/month or $129/year, with a free one-month trial and three months free with the purchase of a qualifying new Mac or iPad.