Issues opening Keynote presentations

My computer is suddenly have issues opening Keynote presentations that i’ve created, and had previously opened 100s of times.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.6

Posted on Aug 7, 2026 9:36 AM

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Aug 7, 2026 11:10 AM in response to Mr.Loren007

Mr.Loren007 wrote: My computer is suddenly have issues opening Keynote presentations that i’ve created, and had previously opened 100s of times.

What issues might your computer be having? Can you be specific? What error messages do you get?


Here are some troubleshooting steps that might get you somewhere:

  • Restart the computer (of course)
  • Re-start in Safe Mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes, and it often helps. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this: 

           Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

  • Make a new user and see if the same problem recurs with it. 


The idea is to find out if the problem is with the Library, with your account, or with caches and login items, and stuff like that. One of these steps may fix the problem, but their failure to work also helps figure out what's happening.


If you need more help, give is the following information:

  1. Do you have “Optimize Storage?” If so,
  2. …What is your storage at iCloud.com? At System Settings>[name]>iCloud>Storage , my Mac says 176 GB of 200 GB used. What does yours say?
  3. What is your storage on this Mac? At System Settings>General> Storage, my Mac says 745 GB of 1TBB used. What does yours say?
  4. Can you think of anything that changed that might affect your experience?

Issues opening Keynote presentations

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