(I know iWork is an old phrase) so, I did not delete the apps. and I wiped my Mac, and after said wipe, they were gone...I didn't reinstall, just wiped using erase assistant, I was signed in, however prior to that I had accidentally a visited malicious website, and that was the reason I wiped it. so what happened? I'm kinda scared I have some bad virus on my computer.
Erase Assist - Question mark ?
As in, asking if you used that method ?
Once the Operating System is reinstalled and your original User ID Account with Apple is setup and logged into.
Open the Apple Apps Store
Be sure to Log Into the Apple Apps Store with that same Apple ID account Credentials
Bottom Left Sidebar should be your User ID Account name
Click on it
Look on Right Panel and see if the Numbers, Pages and Keynote are available to re-download
The method in that link would have " Erase All Content and Settings " effectively removing your User Account and ALL that was contained within your User Account
This would have included removing Numbers, Pages and Keynote
As you have discovered on you own, Yup you have to re-download the applications
Which the user says, they have already redownloaded - good work
yeah they are (erase assistant is the app that pops up after you click reset)….right? (already redownloaded them, but before i did that they didnt have the redownload icon
i’ve wiped this computer before but they were still there did apple change it?
Nope
Not if the previous Erase all Content and Setting was used that time
Nothing changed
Mac iWork apps gone after wipe
