Pages v.15 "Open Recent" doesn't show Pages v.14 documents

I have downloaded the new version of Pages (v.15) in Tahoe.

But File > Open Recent doesn't give me the option of opening Page v.14 documents that I'd been working on recently.

Is there any way I can make it do that?

iMac 27″, macOS 26.3

Posted on Feb 23, 2026 9:03 AM

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Posted on Feb 23, 2026 9:33 AM

Correct, any previously recent documents will not appear. You will have to open them again and then the Open Recent menu will populate with those you have opened on the new version. They are likely saved in your Documents folder or in iCloud now for you to open them.

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Feb 23, 2026 12:03 PM in response to MS1234

MS1234 wrote:

Thanks Mac Jim ID for confirming this problem.
I guess I might as well stick with v.14 until this is fixed.
(It would be a real pain to have to search around for where I've got the c.14 versions, then copy them into a v.15 document and save them, then delete the old ones.)

To be clear you don't need to save the documents after you opened them and there is not an additional copy created where you would be deleting the old ones. Once you open a document in v15, you will then see it in your Open Recent.. menu.


I doubt there is going to be any "fix" where your Open Recently documents would show up in the v.15 of the app. The app downloads on the Mac as a completely separate app where the documents are compatible across each version, but other changes in one app, such as Setting or recently opened documents will not be reflected in the other. Each app is sandboxed, like all other apps, and that is why the data on one of them cannot be read by the other.

Pages v.15 "Open Recent" doesn't show Pages v.14 documents

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