Pages and other Apps sometimes stop saving.

Sometimes Pages, but also other apps (probably ones supporting UIDocument architecture, like Numbers or Artstudio Pro) stop saving the active document and a lot of progress may be lost forever!

It is normally rather rare case but may happen just in the middle of normal editing, without any alert.

I found a way how to easily reproduce it in Pages app. Here a video with all steps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtHB3QVjOiw


Here is the easiest way to make this happen:

- create new document in iCloud Drive / Pages (it happen on On My iPad / Pages as well, but it is less often)

- put 3-4 photos in the document (the larger document, the more often it happens)

- open Files app in the split view, tap "Get Info" on the document currently edited in Pages (it happens more often when document preview is shown)

- then constantly modify and save document in Pages. To save it immediately i move split view separator a bit after typing few letters in the document.

- after few saves preview in Files stops refreshing, and current progress will be not saved anymore in Pages, without any alert!!

- here is an alert shown after trying to return to Documents in Pages: "Pages hasn't finished saving your document. If you close it, your unsaved edits will be lost."

- after closing a document i cannot open it again. I have to restart Pages to open it and it turns out last edits were not saved.


I reported this issue in Feedback Assistant, but i wanted to share it here as well.


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Posted on May 17, 2023 1:38 AM

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Nov 3, 2023 8:26 PM in response to Slyvek

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Pages and other Apps sometimes stop saving.

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