Pages documents in Icloud wont open

Since a week a cant open pages documents on my icloud drive by dubble clicking them in finder.

I also cant open them if i download them. in the dropdown menu for the downloads i cant dubble click and ope it after downlouding. Also its not posible to rightclick the file in the dropdownmenu for downloads and try to click on open file.

Anyone has this and or a solution?

Basecly I cant open any of the documents anaymore exept for in the cloud itself after i log in.

Posted on Oct 5, 2026 8:16 PM

1 reply

brbo

Level 8 (45,179 points)

Oct 5, 2026 10:08 PM in response to Tom-Hendrix

Seems a document with a filename.pages extension can only be opened with the Pages app on your Mac.

(If you want the document to open in other apps, the document can be exported from the Pages app ... eg as a .pdf, or other file extension.)

Pages export choices:

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On a downloaded pages file :

You might want to check that the Pages app is the default for opening it, when you double-click the icon.

Double press on the file to open its side-menu and choose "Get Info"
in the small window that opens... look to check (or change) what app is listed for "Open with"

ie: ... needs to be Pages app

... scroll down to use the small ">" arrow beside "Open with" to check...

and use the small "up and down" arrows if you need to reveal other choices to change the app to Pages

Choose Pages app if needed:

Please note: Screenshots were made on an earlier MacOS version than yours, so please excuse if the window appears a little different in your MacOS 26.6 :-)