Pages documents not syncing between iPad and iPhone using iCloud

Synchronizing Pages documents between iPad and iPhone?

I’ve enabled iCloud for Pages on both devices, but my Pages documents show up only on the iPad. When I did the same for “Books” it all worked as expected, and I can read anything on either device with full synchronisation of bookmarks etc.

How do I get the same behaviour with Pages? (I saw a community post suggesting that a reboot might help, but I’ve done that, without success.)

Thanks

Posted on Oct 11, 2026 2:01 AM

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duerded Author

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Oct 24, 2026 11:10 AM in response to duerded

OK… I have done more research on this and have some conclusions (of the “what happens”, not “why it happens” kind…)

Nett… this doesn’t work unless iCloud Drive is enabled (on *both* devices - I of course had it turned off, like most things I don’t use).

Once this is done, iCD appears as an option for storage and retrieval in the Pages file open and close dialogues, and once modified at either end, synchronisation is pretty quick. I can thus do what I wanted to do.

For fun, I then *disabled* “Pages iCloud” on both devices - and it all continues to work! I thus have no idea of what the purpose is to enable iCloud for Pages - and perhaps this explains why I got zero responses.

FYI anyway for anyone else in this rabbit hole.