Under Tahoe 26.0,1,2 Pages Crashes on About 5% of Saves on MacBook Air M2 8GB RAM

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Under Tahoe 26.0,1,2 Pages Crashes on About 5% of Saves on MacBook Air M2 8GB RAM

My MacBook Air, M2 8GB used to work great, no problems in Sequoia, all releases.

Under Tahoe 26.0, .1, and .2 I've had a lot of issues with Pages along with other maladies, such as frequent logd and other system services crashes.

Pages, per Activity Monitor, usually takes up in the 400-600MB range of memory. About 5% of my saves (command+S) result in the spinning pinwheel, memory utilization jumps to about 6.5GB or more, and Pages just hangs until forced to quit, taking all unsaved edits with it.

As always, corespotlightd and kernel_tasks use biggest amounts of CPU, both in the 100+% range.

System diagonstic showed no problems.

I moved my Pages (14.4 (7043.0.93) application to the Trash and reinstalled from the App store, but that didn't change anything.

Any suggestions? Do I just wait and hope Tahoe 26.3 is better?

Thanks in Advance,

gA

Posted on Jan 2, 2026 7:54 PM

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Jack-19

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Jan 2, 2026 9:08 PM in response to gracelessAtom

Hey there -

Pages, per Activity Monitor, usually takes up in the 400-600MB range of memory. About 5% of my saves (command+S) result in the spinning pinwheel, memory utilization jumps to about 6.5GB or more, and Pages just hangs until forced to quit, taking all unsaved edits with it.

Where are you saving your Pages documents to? For example, you may be saving them to your Mac's internal storage, an external storage drive, a cloud service, etc. If it is the built-in drive on your Mac (including Pages for iCloud) or an external drive, starting with rebuilding the Spotlight index for the affected drive could be helpful since you mentioned corespotlightd is using a large amount of system resources:

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

-Jack

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Owl-53

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Jan 3, 2026 12:30 AM in response to gracelessAtom

I have been seen two separate reports regarding Pages version 14.4, iCloud and Tahoe 26.2

Some have suggested manually clean out the contents of the folders in ~/Library/Metadata/Corespotlight’.

Then restarting the computer may or may not fix the issue

Personally using 1 M4 Desktop, 1 M4 Laptop and 1 M2 Desktop all running Tahoe 26.2, Pages 14.4 all associated with iCloud

Do to experience any issues whatsoever

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