'What is Numbers on iPhone?': How to use Apple's Excel-like app designed for iOS devices

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• The Numbers app is a spreadsheet program created by Apple that allows you to do Microsoft Excel-level tasks from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
• With over 250 powerful functions, more than 30 spreadsheet templates, and access to interactive, 2D, and 3D charts, the Numbers app offers a free, easy-to-use, mobile alternative to Microsoft Excel.
• Numbers lets you import and edit Excel and CSV files, export sheets, add interactive image galleries, insert video, and more.
• With iCloud turned on, you can publicly or privately share your Numbers sheets, and collaborate in real-time on both Macs and PCs.
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There's a deserved enthusiasm for Microsoft Excel. It's a great program, especially if you know your way around it. But it's not the only spreadsheet program in the game, and Apple Numbers packs its punch for storing, organizing, and charting your data sets. Plus, it's all housed in a device that can fit in your hand.

Delivered to iPhone users as a factory-installed app, Numbers lets you create spreadsheets from scratch or through one of the app's many templates. You can import or export data, sort it by column or row, filter it, use formulas, and more. If you want to visualize your data, Numbers' chart feature makes stunning, interactive visuals.

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Collaboration is easy and straightforward, whether you're on an iOS device or PC, with real-time shared editing capabilities. Other features include an intelligent keyboard to add text, formulas, dates and times, an action menu to organize tasks, password protection via Touch ID or Face ID, image and video uploading, and more.