Use iCloud Drive with Pages on Mac
When iCloud Drive is turned on for your device, it stores your documents and keeps them up to date on your computers, iOS devices and iPadOS devices where you’re signed in to the same Apple Account. You always see the latest versions of your documents, no matter where you made your last changes.
For seamless syncing of documents, use iCloud Drive and devices that meet these minimum system requirements: macOS 13, iOS 16, iPadOS 16 or later. On iPhone or iPad, items stored in iCloud Drive appear in the document manager.
You can also use Pages for iCloud to create and edit Pages documents using a supported web browser on a Mac computer or Windows device.
Set up iCloud Drive on your Mac
On your Mac, go to Apple menu
If you’re already signed in to your Apple Account: Click your name at the top of the sidebar.
If you’re not signed in to your Apple Account: Click “Sign in”, enter your Apple Account email address (or phone number) and password, click Continue, then follow the instructions.
If you don’t have an Apple Account: To create an Apple Account, click “Sign in”, click Don’t Have an Account?, then follow the instructions.
Important: If you forget the sign-in information for your Apple Account, you can recover it on the Apple Account website. Though you can have more than one Apple Account, it’s not recommended. Purchases made while signed in to one Apple Account can’t be merged with those made while signed in to another Apple Account.
Click iCloud, go to Saved to iCloud, then click See All.
Turn on Pages (you may need to scroll down), then click Done.
When iCloud Drive is turned off for Pages on your Mac, new documents you create or changes you make aren’t saved to iCloud. Similarly, new documents you create or changes you make to documents on your devices or on your other computers aren’t available in Pages on your Mac.
Open the Pages for iCloud web app
Documents you create using Pages for iCloud are automatically available in Pages on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, as long as they are set up to use iCloud and signed in to the same Apple Account. Similarly, if you create a document using Pages on Mac, iPhone or iPad, the document appears automatically in Pages for iCloud.
Make sure that you're signed in to your Apple Account and are using iCloud Drive.
To check on your Mac, choose Apple menu
Click iCloud, click Drive, click “Apps syncing to iCloud Drive”, then make sure Pages is turned on.
On your Mac computer or Windows device, go to iCloud.com, then sign in using the same Apple Account.
Click Pages.
See Pages for iCloud Help for more information about using Pages for iCloud.
Tips for managing documents across computers and devices
Here are a few things to keep in mind about using iCloud to manage your documents across devices:
If you edit and then close a document when you’re not connected to the internet, you see a cloud icon next to the document in the Open dialogue on your Mac. The next time you connect to the internet, the edited document is synced to iCloud.
If you edit a document on multiple computers or devices and don’t allow time for your edits to sync, you will see clashes. If you do get a clash, you can select to preserve any or all the versions. (This applies only to documents not shared with others.)
If you delete a document that someone shared with you, it’s deleted from your iCloud Drive and from Pages on all your devices. You can click the shared link again to add the document back to your iCloud Drive, where it’s again available on all your computers and devices with iCloud turned on.
If you use folders to organise your documents on one device, the same folder organisation applies on all your devices.
If you add a password to a document on one device, it’s required to open the document on all your devices.