.pages and .numbers filename extensions cannot be hidden since macOS 15.4

Me too, macOS Sequoia update v15.6 did not solve the problem. It's getting to be beyond simply annoying to have to continually use Get Info to re-set the Hide Extension attribute for every file that was edited the previous day in either Pages or Numbers. These two apps insist on clearing this attribute. A true painful user experience that I was hoping would be resolved with the update.

Since macOS 15.6 is likely the last update we’ll see until macOS 26 is released I think you will be waiting for a very long time for a fix, especially if Apple doesn’t recognize your issue as a bug.

I suppose I should ask if you have reported this issue directly to Apple via feedback channels. Have you?

IAmSkippermark wrote:

leroydouglas wrote:

Not sure why you would hide extension to begin with...

I'm the opposite. Not sure why someone would show extensions. Having .numbers or whatever extension showing takes up so much room and hides half the filename.

I have a lot of files from apps that have PDF version of it with the same file name (except for the extension). Having the extension frees me from opening one in an effort to find out which is which. It works for me.

lkrupp,

or may be they do recognize the issue as a bug, but they haven't found a fix so far, with the priorities that have been assigned to this particular issue (this is one in many hundreds, I assume).

Unfortunately, most people don't report the problem they have, or they don't know how to do it. I don't know how Apple could then estimate how important the problem is for us, all of the macOS users, and assign the corresponding priority to fix it.

Same thing happening for a while now. We have three MacBooks that share icloud files and use Pages everyday. We keep all of our MacBooks updated regularly. File extensions show up in finder even when Hide File Extensions option is not checked. It's annoying. :-)

I was really hoping that the latest OS (although, I'm going to wait until the .1 release) fixed the issue. I did just submit another Feedback and hopefully it catches some awareness from the engineers.

I can confirm I have been experiencing this issue for a while now, I thought an update to macOS 26 would fix it... but alas it remains. I have a Numbers file that I access regularly and it always ends up showing .numbers no matter how many times I open Get Info on the File and tick "Hide Extension"

Glad I'm not the only one, it's been driving me mad for months.

"Not sure why you would hide extension to begin with..."

Ehhh, readability? To look at a list of numbers files with .numbers behind everyone of them is annoying to say the least.

As an update, about 4 hours later I see the .numbers extension both in Finder and in Open Recent.

Amen 👍 , to that ( 20 questions )

Thanks, I'll get it and give it a go.

For my M2 MacBook Pro, I mean that I was looking at the same file shared on iCloud.

Good explanation. That explain my observation #2 and why Pages adds the file extension ".page" in the filename for new documents only. To my experience, Numbers doesn't do that.

Bad news for me. After 3 days, one of the files that I believed fixed for good, has just showed its file extension. Very disappointing.