Q: How to recover old version of Pages app

The current version of iOS Pages (2.6.2) should be able to retrieve material created in former Pages versions.

The Pages app does require some significant space on your iPad.  It shows up (in my iTunes) as taking 262MB.

Be certain you always have at least 10% of your iPad's storage space free for working space, and never less.  Check Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage (under Storage).

Your iPad should maintain between 3-6 GBs of free data space to ensure proper, normal operation of iOS.

Free data space less than this and below 2 GBs, you risk the iPad to start displaying signs of erratic functionality.

Good Luck!

Did you ever make a backup of your iPad using the latest iTunes on a computer?

If you did, it maybe possible to retrieve that data from your last iTunes backup.

Apple is the developer of Pages, Numbers, Keynote ( usually referred to as the iWork suite of apps).

Are you certain that when you open the new Pages, you are looking in the correct location for your document(s)?

Recent versions of Pages have defaulted to looking on iCloud Drive.  Perhaps you have not placed your document(s) there.

Pages for iOS (iPad): Use iCloud with Pages

Have you ever activated iCloud on your iPad?

Have you checked iCloud to see if there are any of your documents stored there?

Check

www.icloud.com

See if anything has been saved there.

If I recall correctly, when Pages was first introduced for iOS, its price was US$9.99 at most.  If you spent US$15, perhaps you had some other application from some non-Apple company that was called Pages.

Pages for iOS was first released in January, 2010.  Here is more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages_(word_processor)

jillstail wrote:

 

Therefore, i don't think it's a fair excuse not having my documents backup. I paid for not troubling myself with this backup concern.

No, seriously, you did no such thing. Any expectation that is was unnecessary to back up crucial or valuable files was at best naive. Losing those files is on you, no one else. While I certainly hope you recover those files, you may have just learned a very valuable lesson in using technology.

Apple, nor any other computer company, is responsible for your data, if it becomes corrupt, deleted and/or unrecoverable.

Apple assume no responsibility for anyones' data.

It is up to the user of the computer or mobile device to take the responsibility of protecting and securing their own device/computer stored data.

NO computing company or software developer is ever going to claim responsibility for your data.

Whether you paid $10, $100 or $1000 for an application.

The responsibilty of protecting your saved data rests, squarely, with you!

Any computing device or software is NOT bulletproof or infallible!

The software and devices can glitch or fail or function erractically at any time.

If you own a computer with the latest version of iTunes downloaded and installed on it, there was no excuse for not plugging your iPad into your computer (at some point during those few years) and making a series of automatic backups of your iPad and its data.

You left your known precious, important and irretrievable data on your mobille computing device (an iPad) for waay too long and you got burned when something unexpected happened to your iPad and your application!

If you do not own a computer, it was still up to you to get educated on the different ways to backup data off of a mobile device.

There are portable storage devices designed to use with mobile devices and iDevices.

There are cloud, offsite server storage sites to store and backup data to.

Apple offers iCloud with free 5 GBs of storage OR 50 GBs of storage for $1.00 U.SD. per month!

200 GBs of iCloud storage for $3.00 U.S.D. per month.

There are other cloud, offsite server storage like DropBox that has free 2 GBs of storage that works across any mobile device or computer.

There are others, like DropBox, that offer reasonable monthly pricing for larger capacities of storage (50 GBs and up).

Plus, you can utilise more than one free data storage option at a time.

I use both iCloud AND DropBox for any data storage.

You should NOT be relying on your mobile computing device for ANY long-term data storage of important data.

These new mobile tablet devices are still, relatively, young technology that isn't robust enough, yet, to trust important data to, alone.

You need to get some sort of redundancy data backup storage plan in effect.

You learned a very hard lesson about computers and data.

But, this is NOT an Apple issue or problem or their responsibility...it is yours!

Good Luck to you in the future!

FYI from here on out,

Every computer or computer device user should be purchasing and using such devices with additional external storage devices being used as a redundant repository or backup storage of their important personal digital data that they never want to lose.

I have all of my personal and business data stored on three hard drives, a stack of optical CD/DVD disks and 3 or 4 large capacity USB flash drives and 2 mobile USB flash drives and some of my lesser, but still important notes and documents and iPad backups are stored on my computer AND on both iCloud AND DropBox.

Computer companiies and mobile device companies really do not educate the public on how to protect their personal, digital data on computers and mobile computing devices because it makes their products looked flawed in some fashion (which they are as nobody on this Earth can design and build a perfect product...never going to happen, just look at the recent defective battery debacale of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, as a recent example of imperfect product, another example of why consistent and multiple data backups are necessary. I don't think you would've liked losing both your important data AND blowing up your expensive purchased smartphone because of poorly spec'd lithium battery supplies) and not good for product marketing or the financial bottom line to highlight needing data backups because the design and making of these types of digital computing products is not without flaws.

Can't advertise or have disclaimers about data backups because it's bad for the type of computing products these companies sell and companies can't have any, ANY type of negative marketing, even in small print.

That's my final theory on all of that!