If you clicked “update” for Creator Studio iWork apps on your Mac, and walked away, you’re not quite done yet. Here’s what you need to finish the process, and get the new versions.
There’s another step you may need to complete to get iWork updated
There’s another step you may need to complete to get iWork updated
There’s a technical reason for what Apple did here, which we will not delve that deeply into. Basically, the old Mac versions of the iWork apps were bundle-identified as macOS-specific. The new versions are universal working across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.
Because of that change in bundle identifier, there’s no straight-through path to upgrading your older iWork apps to the new ones in one click. Your “update” needs to go through a new install process from the Mac App Store.