Apple Pages

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apple Pages, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Templates filled with unexplained Lorem ipsum text, confusing new users who thought the language was wrong2025-04-04
Scrolling accidentally enters edit mode, forcing undo of unwanted edits2023-07-24
Saving an edited .docx in Pages forces a .pages format, requiring a manual export2022-03-27
Moving a table by a few centimetres lands it about three inches off target2021-10-25
Pages and Numbers were unusable for regular use about ten years ago2021-10-06
Clunkiness in Pages made it frustrating to use2021-05-12
Can't figure out how to replace template text without deleting it entirely2020-08-13
Typing bold text at the start of a bolded word is awkward, forcing workarounds like retyping characters2019-12-04
Makes it a serious pain to save or export to Word or RTF formats2019-10-08
Saving fails with a misleading 'File does not exist' error, losing hours of work2015-07-15
Can't save PDFs with links, open old templates, or copy numbered lists as plain text2014-03-17
Sluggish when writing large texts or spreadsheets on original iPad2012-12-04
Import and export loses styles and sometimes even text2012-09-17
Editing tables in Pages is painful compared with Numbers2009-01-06