Tahoe 26.1 - with this installed, Pages crashes when I try to save a document - all work is lost evidenced by bringing up same document after I go into Activity Monitor and force the unresponsive Pages to quit. It does not seem to be creating any interim saves.
I'm on a MacBook Air, M2, 8GB. Note all was fine until I installed Tahoe from Sequoia.
MacBook Air, macOS 26.1
To get reasonable performance and reliability again, I turned off Apple Intelligence and Siri, directly under the Main Settings menu. Make sure to do a restart.
My guess is that with Tahoe new and the Apple Intelligence still in beta, that there are still bugs.
gracelessAtom wrote:
Tahoe 26.1 - with this installed, Pages crashes when I try to save a document - all work is lost evidenced by bringing up same document after I go into Activity Monitor and force the unresponsive Pages to quit. It does not seem to be creating any interim saves.
I'm on a MacBook Air, M2, 8GB. Note all was fine until I installed Tahoe from Sequoia.
Try launching the Page.app holding the Shift key down and compare your results— this is a bit of fresh launch.
if the App is stuck and you have to force Quit use the drop down menu
>Force Quit>Pages.app if it is not responding.
Pages has a "Revert to" —>Previously saved version option see if there is anything saved there...
Another option is on-board Time Machine local snapshots
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
I've had this same problem since 26.0 - I'm on an M3 Max with 64gb of Ram.
It got better for a while, but came back with a vengeance 26.1 - I lost a quarter of a novel; it was just - gone. No options for revision history, Time Machine didn't help. It just erased text from a saved file.
Nothing has helped - my only solution is to copy recent work into Notes before saving and to frequently export PDFs.
Entire communities here and on Reddit are very dismissive that it's happening at all, which is really sad as it prevents people who are having this issue from speaking up or working towards a solution.
Now I'm wondering if some sort of Tahoe macOS patch was recently released. Before I posted, I had shut down my MacBook Air a few times and restarted, but that didn't help.
Recently, this seems to have cleared up, hopefully for good. Is confusing because About still shows Tahoe 26.1 . Maybe patches can be released that don't change the release or version number??
Either way, is good to get my MBA back again, so to speak!
very good - thank you!
gA
gracelessAtom wrote:
very good - thank you!
gA
I am unclear, did this resolve your issue(?) Appreciate your feedback here.
Right now Pages works perfectly.
As of these last few hours, MBA froze only once - a big improvement from two or so days ago.
I'll post again in 2-3 days to report on how it performs.
Pages Crashes, Loses All Work, MacBook Air M2 8GB Under Tahoe
