After upgrade to Sonoma, opening of PAGES docs is VERY slow

Very strange about the PDF issue. I just went to the LibreOffice Documentation page and downloaded their Writer 24.8 PDF. I then clicked on the Safari 18.1.1 ↓⃝ button and double-clicked that PDF entry and it opened right up in Preview. No grumbles about available apps to open it. This was tested in Sequoia v15.1.1. Is Apple's Preview configured in a Finder Get Info window to be the default opening application for PDFs?

I don't have Sonoma installed and have been procrastinating updating my 16-in M1 Pro from Ventura to Sonoma. Just need a new Crucial Time Machine drive to do that. Guess I better order that backup drive… 🧐

You know, before I replaced it with an M4 Mac Mini Pro, I had an M2 Mac Mini Pro w/32 GB running Sonoma 14.7.1, and even a 179-page Pages document (granted, all text), opened up with acceptable responsiveness. So, your issue with Sun-dial responsive Pages documents is perplexing but not isolated.

I HAVE WASTED SO MUCH TIME ON THIS SONOMA 14.7.1 UPDATE THAT DESTROYED MY PAGES/ NUMBERS/PREVIEW WORKFLOW(yes all caps indicate my disgust and loathing) that I want to know why the person responsible for testing across recent OS's and chips has not been fired. If I wanted a lame unresponsive OS I would have switched to windoze; Instead I got windoze on Mac in this "update".

Pages and Numbers do not work in Sonoma 14.7.1. I have wasted far too much time troubleshooting this issue. Was this upgrade even tested on M1 macs before rolling this out? I have NEVER had an issue with OS upgrades in my decades of using Apple like I have had with this one - essentially rendering my essential applications unusable. Might as well be on a windoze platform for all my trouble and wasted time. Who authorized this OS without fully testing it on older platforms??? I am only one of MANY unhappy customers. FIX IT!

Hello, Fraxis2007!

Sadly, no fix at all with 14.7.2 as far as I can see. All the same problems. Very disappointing.

He was talking about Sonoma 14.6.1. Sequoia 15.2 is already out. This issue may have been fixed for a long time already, it might be that you need to upgrade.

Great solution if you have compatible hardware and basic app requirements. Personally, I can't do that as I have huge numbers of third party Logic Pro plugins and an audio interface that are not yet Sequoia certififed by their delvelopers/manufactures. A lot of peple who had this problem were people jumping straight from the latest version of Ventura to the latest version of Sonoma to get access to Logic Pro 11.1 - the first upgrade that had Sonoma as its minimum OS requirement. So they are all in the same boat if they have plugins from Arturia, Native Intruments, Roland etc.

Yes, I understand hardware and application dependencies that may restrict one's usage to Sonoma.

It has probably been mentioned elsewhere in this post's threads that there are plentiful alternatives to Apple's Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, provided those documents are initially exported from Apple's closed document architecture to Microsoft document formats that other applications can open or import.

Pixel_Gurl wrote:

Too little too late. What about those of us who relied on you to provide quality professional products? YOU FAILED US.

No Apple employees participate in these fellow Mac user-supported and public communities. No one here failed you.

Since its inception in 2005, Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote were never designed to be professional products with the same focus as Microsoft's products. Apple's tools are consumer-oriented products that some have used as prosumer tools and a few increasingly frustrated folks have tried to use them as professional tools. Apple is not competing with other vendors in this category of tools: neither for profit nor market share.

Most other products that can feature or performance supplant these Apple tools are more comprehensive and must perform or sacrifice revenue. You have application choices in this space. Blaming Apple won't accomplish anything in a user-only space.

Updated to Sonoma 14.7.2. Still no fix for pages or numbers slow loading of documents. I am MBP M1Pro. Unfortunately if I upgrade to Sequoia some of my DAW apps will no longer work as everything is not ported yet.

Same here. I'm using Pages 14.3 on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) running Sonoma 14.7.2 - that's the case even with very short (< one page), simple text files. I'd appreciate updates and potential fixes as they might become available.