Under Tahoe 26.0,1,2 Pages Crashes on About 5% of Saves on MacBook Air M2 8GB RAM

VikingOSX wrote:

The last Pages update (e.g. v14.4) is now over 9 months old and was never "groomed" to be compatible with Tahoe 26.2. I am not having any issues with this Pages version on macOS Tahoe 26.2, but then again, I don't order Macs with 8GB RAM which may be borderline problematic with the larger Tahoe demands on your Mac. Figure on Tahoe taking half of your 8GB RAM just to run the operating system, and if the Spotlight MD Worker processes happen to be running, your Pages application may be starved for RAM.

What we don't know is if you are running other larger footprint applications concurrent with your Pages issues, or if you have installed other unnecessary software that may be interfering with the normal operating system and Pages functionality.

Once Pages hangs or crashes on you, the next time you attempt to start Pages, press and hold the shift key which will prevent Pages from reloading its last saved execution state. That may help with subsequent stability.

It might be further useful to boot your M2 Air in Safe Boot mode which prevents third-party drivers from loading, and test Pages under those circumstances. Safe Boot also rebuilds some operating system databases and clears System caches — sometimes all that is needed for Pages to work properly. Reboot normally from Safe Boot mode.

There is also a dedicated Pages Discussions community.

@ VikingOSX

Only as a point of reference to the two other posting on this issue

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256216821?answerId=261766964022&sortBy=newest_first&page=3#261766964022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256204342?answerId=261766958022&sortBy=oldest_first

The last Pages update (e.g. v14.4) is now over 9 months old and was never "groomed" to be compatible with Tahoe 26.2. I am not having any issues with this Pages version on macOS Tahoe 26.2, but then again, I don't order Macs with 8GB RAM which may be borderline problematic with the larger Tahoe demands on your Mac. Figure on Tahoe taking half of your 8GB RAM just to run the operating system, and if the Spotlight MD Worker processes happen to be running, your Pages application may be starved for RAM.

What we don't know is if you are running other larger footprint applications concurrent with your Pages issues, or if you have installed other unnecessary software that may be interfering with the normal operating system and Pages functionality.

Once Pages hangs or crashes on you, the next time you attempt to start Pages, press and hold the shift key which will prevent Pages from reloading its last saved execution state. That may help with subsequent stability.

It might be further useful to boot your M2 Air in Safe Boot mode which prevents third-party drivers from loading, and test Pages under those circumstances. Safe Boot also rebuilds some operating system databases and clears System caches — sometimes all that is needed for Pages to work properly. Reboot normally from Safe Boot mode.

There is also a dedicated Pages Discussions community.

Hey there -

Pages, per Activity Monitor, usually takes up in the 400-600MB range of memory. About 5% of my saves (command+S) result in the spinning pinwheel, memory utilization jumps to about 6.5GB or more, and Pages just hangs until forced to quit, taking all unsaved edits with it.

Where are you saving your Pages documents to? For example, you may be saving them to your Mac's internal storage, an external storage drive, a cloud service, etc. If it is the built-in drive on your Mac (including Pages for iCloud) or an external drive, starting with rebuilding the Spotlight index for the affected drive could be helpful since you mentioned corespotlightd is using a large amount of system resources:

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

-Jack

I have been seen two separate reports regarding Pages version 14.4, iCloud and Tahoe 26.2

Some have suggested manually clean out the contents of the folders in ~/Library/Metadata/Corespotlight’.

Then restarting the computer may or may not fix the issue

Personally using 1 M4 Desktop, 1 M4 Laptop and 1 M2 Desktop all running Tahoe 26.2, Pages 14.4 all associated with iCloud

Do to experience any issues whatsoever

gracelessAtom wrote:

Under Tahoe 26.0, .1, and .2 I've had a lot of issues with Pages along with other maladies, such as frequent logd and other system services crashes.

The current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.2 - I would start there

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

As you have mentioned " This is like night and day - will follow up in a few days to see if this spectacular improvement holds."

There is no need to pursue this matter unless the issue re-emerges again