Pages displays identical document names upon startup, requiring manual renaming

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Pages displays identical document names upon startup, requiring manual renaming

Pages is displaying the name of each page to be all the same, I then need to enlarge each page open to have it then AUTOMATICALLY then change to what the page was originally named. This started since last upgrade and is just a nuisance to do this each time. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thankyou as I feel I may need to wait until new update comes with this.

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Original Title: Pages not working properly since latest update, name of ALL page documents are the same upon start up and I have to open ALL to then have the names change to the original

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jul 20, 2025 03:50 PM

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Jul 22, 2025 06:24 PM in response to AnastaciaK11

Try turning on “Close windows when quitting an application” under System Settings > Desktop & Dock. That way, Pages starts fresh each time instead of bringing back old window states that can show outdated names.

Another simple workaround is to open your documents directly from Finder rather than from Pages’ Recents list — that usually displays the correct file names right away.

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