Pages and iCloud will not sync.

Update, Correction, Bonus: Browsing iCloud.com in a webbrowser .pages in the iCloud now can be rather directly downloaded and opened in Pages09. I am not sure if this is realatively new.

From icloud.com (in a webbrowser like Safari on a Mac) not all .pages files can be downloaded easily.

For some documents the relatively easy download link is grey and inactive, most of those documents have a password, maybe it's about that. Anyway, Pages 09 needs an update to enjoy icloud.

I think the problem is that iOS devices can't support multiple iCloud accounts trying to sync documents. I removed my second account and then added it back making sure documents and data weren't activated. Works fine now!

This is the best answer so far and solves all the problems... thanks you for putting everything together and making a concise answer in steps in how to solve it!

Same problem here. I tried switching iCloud on/off in Pages and in iCloud settings (documents and data). Tried removing Pages and synching it back on iPad. Didn't work.

My problem was two Pages documents that wouldn't update (hanging on 'updating two documents'). So, I emailed these two documents that wouldn't update to myself then deleted them from my iPad. Opened up my email on the iPad, opened attached document, touched 'open in Pages' and it updated.

I didn't try the factory reset, but if I have to do this email, delete, re-add thing again, I'll give it a try.

(Really annoyed this is happening with iCloud. Can Apple really be promoting this and charging such a premium for its products!?)

I just purchased Pages for my Mac assuming that it would sync with my iPad and iPhone ...

Boy, am I an idiot, thinking that Apple would design something to make my life easier, rather than try to extract more and more revenue from me and control each and everything I do in their "ecosystem."

I hope you get the fact that I'm being sarcastic here, I'm just a little upset that Pages does nothing of the sort: It ONLY syncs between mobile devices, not to your Mac desktop.

And so I look up from my lowly position and ask the great Apple: What is the point? Why can't I seamlessly sync from my desktop to my mobile device? Without this kind of functionality, iCloud is a joke ...

I also have experienced the same issue. With my new iPad, I bought the pages app, hoping to increase my school productivity. When I read that it would only sunc pages documents I went ahead and downloaded pages on my mac laptop. Boy, do I feel like an idiot to find out there is no cross syncing. I could have spent an hour working on this paper instead of trying to get a product to do what Apple eludes to it doing.

Solution:

1. Press the Home button and Power button at the same time and keep pressing it until the iPad shuts down and the Apple logo shows up. Note: During this process, you will see the "slide to power off" icon --- just ignore that and keep holding down the home and power button simultaneously. After about 5 to 10 seconds, the ipad will black out and then an apple logo will appear. Only after the apple logo appears that then you should let go of the home and power buttons.

2. Once the iPad has restarted, open Pages and you should see that the documents are synchronising.

I agree w/ mkw66. On that note, I have a question for all. I purchased Pages from the app store on my iMac. I'd like to have it on my iPad as well (alghough after reading this, I'm not so sure what use it will be -- not being able to sync with iMac, etc). So, I've already paid for it (iMac). Do I have to buy it again to get it on my iPad? I don't think it is fair to pay twice.

I think you guys took the problem in another direction since this was about pages for IOS not syncing with all the devices. It is indeed a different program from the one for max OSX but here is the good part, the sync with the mac feature will be added in the mountain lion version of mac os so I think that is nit such a bad thing, also the difference among the software is gargantuan, pages in the ipad is powerful but never as the one in mac os.

This is the thing, if you want to make docs in your ipad, I can't think of a better word procrsssor than pages, and Imhave tryed a lot of the many apps in the store. In the end we are tied hands down, we have to get it for the mac and for the ios devices.

Yes, this topic is veering, but let me offer my advice for those looking.

First, Pages for iOS (iPhone, iPad) is different than Pages for OS (Macbook, iMac, etc.) -- two different programs and need to be purchased separately.

If you wish to synch your documents between your iPad or iPhone and your Macbook, iMac, etc., iCloud does not do this. Perhaps it will with Mountain Lion.

So, unless you want to synch between iPad and iPhone, there's little point using iCloud for this. It does create a back-up, though. But with this problem of synching, I figure, "why am I trying to fix an issue for some feature that's useless?"

Thus, I've stopped my iPad from synching my Pages docs with iCloud. The iPad wants to 'update' a document to iCloud as soon as you make any changes. I'm much more comfortable doing this the old way: I email the document as an attachment to myself from my Macbook, open the email on my iPad, and open the attachment in Pages on the iPad and it's saved there. If I make a lot of changes to the doc on my iPad, I'll just email it again from my iPad, open it on my Macbook and save it with same file name to overwrite the old one. I suppose that's a bit cumbersome, but my documents are important so taking a few steps doesn't bother me to ensure they don't just vapourize or changes lost.

ps. Pages and the whole iWork suite (the program, not the app) is bloody fantastic. Much, much better than MS Office. The app for iPad is pretty good, but is a rather 'lite' wordprocessor. Typing on the iPad isn't that great, either. Note WitchDoc's comment above: 'm' instead of a space... I do this all the time on the iPad!

On iPad:

Settings, iCloud, Documents&Data = On

Settings, Pages, Use iCloud = On

Settings, Keynote, Use iCloud = On

I felt rather silly, a bit like I had not checked to see that something is plugged in before complaining that I can't turn it on, but there it is.

In my case, the documents had an upper right dog-ear fold-down with an up arrow in it, indicating that the documents were awaiting upload to iCloud. I went into Settings > iCloud, to find that the password needed refreshing. With that, the documents immediately transferred to iCloud. (Always check the obvious, despite it being too obvious to warrant checking.)

I have tried everything in this discussion with this result: Pages on iPhone and iPad are talking to iCloud and can sync with each other. Numbers on the iPad can talk to iCloud, but Numbers on the iPhone talks to no one. The Mac cannot sync with iCloud at all.

My work around is to upload documents through GoodReader. As soon as they appaer in GoodReader on the iOS device, tap and hold, then select "Open in Pages" or "Open in Numbers" and that puts the file in the right place.

The other solution is to use SugarSync, which has a great iOS application.

I am tired of fixing it, so I just use workarounds.

The following sounds like strange story, but is true and more important: my problems with syncing between Pages (and some other Apps) and iCloud are solved!

Orginally I had an iPad 1 WiFi and an iPhone 4 with on both Pages installed. Syncing between my iPhone 4 and iCloud worked perfectly from the start, but I never got it to work on my iPad 1 WiFi.

Recently I bought an iPad 3 WiFi + 4G. Initially I had no sim card installed in this iPad and again I couldn't get Pages to sync with iCloud. The following day I received my sim card, installed it and activated it. When I then tried again to sync documents between Pages and iCloud, syncing started immediately and is now perfectly well doing so between my iPad WifI + 4G, my iPhone 4 and iCloud.

Some other observations:

- Photostream worked on both my iPads

- Reminders worked on both my iPads

- Messages did not work on my iPad 1 WiFi and did work on my iPad 3 WiFi + 4G only AFTER I installed the sim card!

- Some Apps had problems with syncing on my iPad 1 WiFi

To me it appears that there is a bug in iOS 5.1, which causes syncing between Pages (and some other Apps)and iCloud not to work as it should when having an iPad WiFi OR an iPad WiFi + 4G with no sim card installed.

I am curious to know Apple's reaction on my experiences (if they ever read this).