EmrickCachets2 wrote:
Ever since upgrading Pages & Numbers both apps are slow to open and files take a long time to open. Didn't do this before the upgrade. I called Apple Support and was told to try rebooting the iMac... didn't help. So far no help from anyone. Is there a way to go back to the Pages/Numbers version I had previously?
Pages and Numbers v14.4 are the correct versions for macOS Sequoia. Removing these applications and restoring earlier versions from Time Machine may introduce some compatibility issues and I advise against it. Sort out what is contributing to the lag in the current versions.
Working with 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7 - macOS Sequoia 15.6 Again, same set up before the upgrade worked with previous versions of both apps.
I have these application versions installed on my 2020 27-inch iMac 3.8 GHz Core i7 and they do not exhibit any lethargy opening their respective documents from the local SSD. Have you installed anything else prior to updating to Sequoia v15.6 (now 15.6.1) or after updating the Pages/Numbers versions? Running any Anti-Virus, or so-called "Mac Cleaning tools?" That would be a big No-No.
Accessing these documents from iCloud Drive means hoping that the Internet has no bottlenecks between you and Apple servers. That will make file access quite slow until the network issue resolves itself.
Attempting to run any application immediately after a first boot will cause it to compete with the 30+ Spotlight indexing processes and that will make things slow for awhile.
