After upgrade to Sonoma, opening of PAGES docs is VERY slow

Update: So Apple called me back and have confirmed that the engineers are aware from multiple people that this is an issue. It will be fixed in a Sonoma update, so I would suggest avoiding any workarounds or DIY solutions if you can wait. They say typically a fix for something like this would take around 10 days to implement and release an OS update for. That's not a guarantee, however. Hope this helps.

Updated to Sonoma 14.7.2. Still no fix for pages or numbers slow loading of documents. I am MBP M1Pro. Unfortunately if I upgrade to Sequoia some of my DAW apps will no longer work as everything is not ported yet.

I have a very busy couple of days ahead, so will not be trying it until probably Tueday, but wanted to share this from a poster called 'FirstPost' on LogicProHelp.com as it may be the solution we have been waiting for.

Hello, this was the first match I found confirming I wasn't the only one who met with problems upgrading from 13.7..1 to 14.7.1. I'm not even a Logic Pro user, but I thought it might help to share the solution I've found out at last. If you can't or don't want to upgrade to Sequoia, you can fix the missing recent items (and several other weird issues) resetting your user keychain. I did and everything works now. I had only to re-enter Gmail accounts passwords. Of course you must have a backup...

A few references:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764435

"Failed to retrieve app-scope key"… | Apple Developer Forums

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/765433

As the Apple support article is a bit laconic IMHO, I followed this link to reset my keychain:

https://macpaw.com/how-to/reset-keychain-mac

The above article is sponsored but basically reliable. Just one caveat about toggling off iCloud Keychain. As Jeff Johnson (the developr of StopTheMadness) reports

By the way, toggling off "Sync this Mac" caused System Settings to hang and eventually crash the preference pane

That's what happened to me too, but following onscreen directions I could easily update my ID Apple settings (this process was not responding).

As a last step I had to restart into secure boot to have recent items back in place.

Hope it helps. I was on the verge of erasing and install from scratch...

Hello,

Same issue for me. Updated from Ventura to Sonoma (14.1.7) a few days ago and Pages and Numbers are slow to load and respond and save/rename. Takes about 30-60 seconds to load in a document. I am on a MacStudio M1Pro.

I went to the Genius Bar and they couldn't find any issues and the only solution they offered, was to take to computer for further testing. But all diagnostic they were able to run at my appointment showed no issues.

I have uninstalled and installed Pages/Numbers numerous times, etc..no change. I guess the last step will be to do a clean install.

Sadly, no fix at all with 14.7.2 as far as I can see. All the same problems. Very disappointing.

One last straw… press and hold the shift key while launching Pages. Then open any document and observe the document opening time. The shift key approach prevents Pages from using its last execution state, and maybe a miracle will happen by sidestepping it.

Creating a new user is simple but migrating your existing user data to the new user is H*LL owing to specific current permissions and ownership. I would avoid that at all costs as it will be prohibitively expensive in time and profanity.

Another approach, assuming you have backed up any custom Pages templates from that com.apple.iWork.Pages container location, would be quit Pages, and then move the preceding Pages container folder to the Desktop, and let Pages recreate that container hierarchy the next time Pages is launched. I usually recommend this as the very last approach paying attention to ensuring you have a backup of any custom (My Templates) templates.

Pages and Numbers do not work in Sonoma 14.7.1. I have wasted far too much time troubleshooting this issue. Was this upgrade even tested on M1 macs before rolling this out? I have NEVER had an issue with OS upgrades in my decades of using Apple like I have had with this one - essentially rendering my essential applications unusable. Might as well be on a windoze platform for all my trouble and wasted time. Who authorized this OS without fully testing it on older platforms??? I am only one of MANY unhappy customers. FIX IT!

Great solution if you have compatible hardware and basic app requirements. Personally, I can't do that as I have huge numbers of third party Logic Pro plugins and an audio interface that are not yet Sequoia certififed by their delvelopers/manufactures. A lot of peple who had this problem were people jumping straight from the latest version of Ventura to the latest version of Sonoma to get access to Logic Pro 11.1 - the first upgrade that had Sonoma as its minimum OS requirement. So they are all in the same boat if they have plugins from Arturia, Native Intruments, Roland etc.

It’s definitely A solution, but not the only one. If you wish to stay on Sonoma for now, unsync the iCloud back-up of your keychain, reset your keychain and then re-sync from iCloud to restore your passwords etc. Worked perfectly for me and I have yet to hear of anyone who also tried it that it didn’t work for.

Since the upgrade to Sonoma 14.7.2 on M1 MBP, multiple apps are slow to open, slow to save, and often crash or hang on quit. Affected apps are Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Microsoft Office. Probably others, but those are the apps that I'm cursing at lately. To me it appears to be a disk access issue. As if read/writes are blocked or slowed by security in the OS. I would upgrade to Sequoia, but Pro Tools and many plugins are not compatible yet.

I'm seeing reports over on Mac Rumours that 14.7.3 tht this update fixes the issue. I did the keychain reset fix so I can't test it, but would be interested to know if it solves the problem for anyone here who hs held back on trying that.