On macOS, we are including a technology preview of a new ribbon interface.  This is an early stage technology preview, not a final form.  If you want to give it a try, it is found in the Applications folder as Maple 2025 Technology Preview.

Press the Alt key to see small keyboard tips that open tabs and groups and click items in the ribbon.  Press the Alt key again to stop displaying the keyboard tips.

For example, typing Alt shows the keyboard tips.  Press I to open the Insert tab and then press C to insert a code edit region.

The interrupt ( ) and debug ( ) buttons have moved to the status bar displayed at the bottom of the Maple window.  For more information, see Status Bar.

In Maple 2025, we've focused on improving the experience of inputting and editing mathematical expressions, making it smoother and more intuitive. Navigating through 2-D expressions is now more predictable, with consistent behavior when moving left or right. When backspacing or deleting, the cursor now reliably removes one character at a time, following the same path as its movement through the expression.

Delimiters such as absolute value bars, parentheses, and matrix norm bars are now properly matched and stretch as needed for clarity and accuracy. Multiple sets of name-quotes or string quotes within an expression are correctly delimited, ensuring clean and efficient editing.

Additionally, using Shift and cursor keys for selection, followed by copy and paste, now works as expected.

These improvements, though subtle, create a more seamless 2-D math editing experience, allowing you to focus on your work without unnecessary distractions.

Maple 2025 introduces an optimized experience for keyboard entry of polynomials, fractions, and indexed variables, eliminating the need for repetitive cursor movement. $x^2-\frac{1}{2}\cdot \mathrm{x\_\_0}\+y^2-\frac{1}{3}\cdot \mathrm{y\_\_0}\=0$ required pressing the right arrow key six times just to return to the baseline.

Now, in Maple 2025, when you type ^, /, or __ followed by a number or symbol and then input another operator (such as +), the operator will automatically be inserted on the baseline. For the example above, this change entirely eliminates the need to use cursor keys to get back to the baseline.

Through extensive analysis of input patterns, we've found that in most cases, returning to the baseline is the desired behavior -- except in cases involving ^1 and /1. For these instances, the equation editor will keep the exponent or denominator at the current input level, as most users expect.

If you find the cursor has moved to the baseline before you are finished, you can always use the left arrow to return to the exponent, denominator, or index you were just in. You can also keep the cursor inside the exponent or denominator by typing a space before the operator, and then the cursor will remain where it is.

This enhancement makes entering complex expressions faster and more fluid, letting you focus on your work without interruption.

In Maple 2024, we introduced automatic argument completion to make it easier to fill in the arguments for a command.  You can turn this feature on in the Interface tab of the Options Dialog. Start typing the command, and, when available, a pop-up list of suggested arguments appears automatically.  You can select from the available completions using your pointer or arrow keys and Tab.

When using argument completion, the argument completion lists can also include your previously defined variable, if it is of an appropriate type for the argument.  In Maple 2025, we expanded this feature:  If your worksheet has multiple definitions that could be used as an argument, argument completion now shows multiple suggestions from defined variables.

Maple has had command/symbol completion for many releases.  Type something, press Esc, and select from the available completions in the pop-up list using your pointer or using the arrow keys and Tab.

In previous releases, you could also accept an entry from the command completion pop-up list using Enter (Return on Mac).  Since this was only possible with command completion, not argument completion, it was inconsistent behavior.  In Maple 2025, we've unified things and offered users control.  By default, Tab is the trigger key for both argument and command completion.  If you want to accept Enter (Return on Mac) as a trigger key as well, there is an option to do so.

You can manage this from the Options Dialog.

Now you can use Enter in the pop-up boxes for both command and argument completion.

For more information on these features, see Automatic Argument Completion and Command Completion.