LordBlackk

Q: Is Pages 6.0 lagging badly for anyone else?

Since updating to Pages 6.0 I've started experiencing bad lag when typing. Lots of spinning wheel. Is this happening to anyone else? Ideas?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Oct 2, 2016 4:04 PM

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Q: Is Pages 6.0 lagging badly for anyone else?

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  • by PeterBreis0807,

    PeterBreis0807 PeterBreis0807 Oct 2, 2016 4:28 PM in response to LordBlackk
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    Oct 2, 2016 4:28 PM in response to LordBlackk

    Yes, turn off grammar checking, wait for updates.

     

    Peter

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Oct 2, 2016 4:48 PM in response to LordBlackk
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    Oct 2, 2016 4:48 PM in response to LordBlackk

    A brand new major release of macOS, and a new release of Pages v6. Neither are performance optimized, or bug free at this point, and according to your profile, you are on a 3.5 year old Mac that is configured in who knows what way. On my 2014 MBA, macOS Sierra introduced another 65 processes (over El Capitan) to support all the new feature creep that I won't use. It steals away my memory and interactive performance.

     

    There could be a myriad of reasons why Pages v6 lags on your MBA, above and beyond the new product observation in the first paragraph. Although Pages v5.6.2 (and probably) v6 are egregious dogs with large, image saturated documents, there may be more that you are not sharing.

     

    Go get the free Malwarebytes and run that to see if your Mac is infected with any performance robbing malware.

  • by Neto,

    Neto Neto Oct 3, 2016 2:36 PM in response to LordBlackk
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    Oct 3, 2016 2:36 PM in response to LordBlackk

    Same thing here. Mostly when I switch betweeen Pages and Chrome.

  • by HarrisonMG,

    HarrisonMG HarrisonMG Oct 13, 2016 3:53 PM in response to LordBlackk
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    Oct 13, 2016 3:53 PM in response to LordBlackk

    This has been making me crazy. I will type, ten seconds later it will come onto the screen. But here's where it gets weird--it must process my keyboard input differently from spellchecking, because in the time where nothing appears on the screen, it decides to finish a word before I am done typing it. For example, I may type "extremely" and it will come out as "extremelyemely." I don't want to turn off spell check, I have so many abbreviates set and so many slight errors that it would take too long to go thorough every single typo--I notice in thsi, there is no spell check, which is 'extremelyemely' annoying.