Pages will cause my studio computer to hang up at times, showing a spinning beach ball sometimes about every couple of minutes. The documents are sermon notes that contain lots of text styles, highlights, bold, underlining. Etc. I am using a Mac Studio with Tahoe 26.0 (25A354)
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Mac Studio, macOS 26.0
Update to Tahoe 26.0.1 (to stay current) and be certain you are using Pages v14.4, which at the moment, is the current version.
If you have several applications running, or several documents opened in Pages, this may cause a resource allocation issue causing Pages to hang or quit. Furthermore, you should not be running any anti-virus or so-called Mac "cleaner" applications as these will interfere with normal operating system and application behavior.
Reboot your Mac. Press and hold the shift key while launching Pages (only after a crash or hang) to prevent it from loading its last saved execution state. See if that alone clears up the hanging issue once you have managed the preceding paragraphs.
Update to Tahoe 26.0.1 (to stay current) and be certain you are using Pages v14.4, which at the moment, is the current version.
If you have several applications running, or several documents opened in Pages, this may cause a resource allocation issue causing Pages to hang or quit. Furthermore, you should not be running any anti-virus or so-called Mac "cleaner" applications as these will interfere with normal operating system and application behavior.
Reboot your Mac. Press and hold the shift key while launching Pages (only after a crash or hang) to prevent it from loading its last saved execution state. See if that alone clears up the hanging issue once you have managed the preceding paragraphs.
Never use any anti-virus software because they have a long history of interfering with the operating system and applications. The operating system itself is on a read-only, code-signed volume that malware simply cannot be installed into. Any virus/malware written for Windows will not execute on the Mac.
Yes, there is adware/malware that can get installed into non-System areas of the Mac, but these are usually not found or prevented by anti-virus software, and most commonly are introduced by the user themselves by deliberately downloading software from non-vendor sites, or by inadvertently clicking buttons in email or websites where they shouldn't. For this type of software, there is Malwarebytes which is free, or by subscription. For the first few years of its availability, Malwarebytes was not advertised, or mentioned on their website as an anti-virus tool. Now it is. Probably marketing to compete with all of the other A/V products out there. Once installed, it can also be removed from a menu item on its Help menu. Though I have used it in the past, I don't use it now.
Whether you know it or not, macOS is a UNIX operating system beneath the Finder and that further protects it from infections. Unlike Microsoft, Apple has taken operating system security much farther and there is a white-paper about what they have done to protect the operating system and user from malware invasion.
The following will discuss how Apple has taken steps to protect you and the Mac:
Apple Platform Security - Apple Support
Thank you. I have implemented your suggestions and they seem to be working so far. However I really like to use Norton 360 antivirus. Are you saying to never use it when Pages is running?
Thank you so much. That was so helpful and my problem is solved.
jac
You are welcome.
Pages causes my Mac Studio computer to hang up
