Retaining format when copying from Pages on iPad to pasting into Gmail

Pages v13.1 for iPadOS, and iPadOS 16.6 correct?

The Pages product team does not participate in these communities, so they are not going to say "we caused this," and as a fellow user, I cannot speculate about it either. There is always the possibility that Google has made changes to Gmail that now break your long-standing pattern of copy/paste from Pages and that is not something that can be solved in an Apple support community either.

I don't have a GMail client to test this on. Does it offer multiple forms of paste, or just a standard paste?

I had the same issue using iPad 16.7 and Pages 13.2. My work around has been to; first paste formatted Pages text into Google Docs/ clean up any formatting issues/ then select all/ and paste into Gmail. This works.

This is sort of my workaround, too. It keeps the formatting if I paste from Pages to Notes to Gmail app. Or if I paste from Pages into Gmail from a web browser. But straight from Pages to Gmail app loses the formatting. Would love to see this fixed.

As a test, and for those that have MS Word on iOS/iPadOS too, try copy/pasting from Word directly into a GMail Compose window and assess the result. Word places 25 distinct data types on the clipboard representing the content that was copied. The ability of GMail to reproduce what was pasted depends directly on how Google designed GMail to accept the right clipboard datatype.

I have Word v16.78 on macOS Sonoma 14.1 and when I copy a paragraph containing some red text and a yellow highlighted word to the clipboard, and then paste directly into a web-based GMail compose window, the text appears exactly as it does in MS Word. This may be Firefox 119.0 or GMail, but that is impossible to determine.

If i take the same exact text marked up identical to what I copied from MS Word, but opened in Pages v13.2, it pastes into GMail compose window as simple plain text. Pages places 18 data types on the clipboard, most for use by Pages, so little wonder that a direct copy/paste from Pages into GMail arrives as plain text.

Google assumes that the majority of users are using MS Word, Word clones, or Google Docs — not Pages, and makes no accommodation for Pages content on the clipboard other than as plain text.

It happened to me as well. So I Exported it in PDF form and sent it as an attachment to myself. ThenI opened it and saved it as a document with a new name. Not I can send it as a correctly formatted doc.