Pages app runs very slow on Tahoe 26.3, why?
; Pages app very slow
iMac 24″, macOS 26.3
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Re: "Pages app runs very slow on Tahoe 26.3, why?"
There are many possible reasons why. We have very little info. to go on to determine what is the cause in this case. It would be a guessing game. You may have already tried any carefully supplied suggestions.
Sometimes closing Pages, restarting your Mac (Apple menu > Restart) waiting till Mac restarts, and then re-opening Pages is all that's needed.
Restarting often restores order when something is not working as expected ... (deletes temporary files, updates setting changes & much more.)
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If that doesn't help: For starters: Here's one possibility:
You may have a great many extra long documents open in Pages, or be creating a many paged book, or using many images, and your Mac does not have much memory / storage free in which to operate, so Pages has to struggle = slow.
Check your Mac's available storage space ...
(Any storage space you may have in iCloud does not count here.)
A Mac generally needs at least 50 Gb free in which to to operate smoothly, more if you are doing memory intensive tasks ... (eg: video-editing), or have a great many apps open / in use.
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Else: If you have plenty of available / free / storage space:
Open Activity monitor, and see which apps, if any, are using the CPU needed for Pages. (Eg: "Chrome" is notorious for "hogging" CPU ... Firefox is better)
See how to: View CPU activity in Activity Monitor on Mac
NB: If Activity Monitor's icon is not in the dock: to open the app:
Go to Applications > Utilities and click on the black Activity Monitor icon.