If you plan on using your iPhone for productivity, the first thing you’ll want to consider is which tool you should use to edit a Word document. While there are a ton of word processing apps out there, the only two tools you’ll need are Apple’s own Pages app that comes pre-installed on iOS or Microsoft’s Word app, which is free to use on an iPhone as long as you’re signed into a Microsoft account.

In this post, we'll explain how to edit a Word document on your iPhone using these two apps.

Apple’s native Pages app does a pretty good job of editing Word files on an iPhone. Since the app is free and comes pre-installed on all iPhones, it’s potentially ready and waiting for you to edit your Word documents.

For on-the-fly editing, Pages offers a handful of options you can use to quickly modify your document. The first thing you might want to do when editing a document is select text in it.