Mac Pages AutoSave | Feature to Recover Unsaved Documents in Pages

This post will introduce how to use the Mac Pages AutoSave to recover unsaved Pages documents on a Mac. If you forget to save your Pages documents, install EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac to recover the unsaved Pages documents.

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Mac Pages AutoSave is a helpful feature when people forget to click the "Save" after editing a Pages document. This helpful feature, "AutoSave", is enabled automatically by Pages for Mac.

Is there an autosave feature for pages on the Mac desktop app? I can't seem to find the ability to autosave my pages doc when using the Pages for Mac desktop app. From Apple Community

This post will introduce utilizing the Mac Pages AutoSave feature to recover unsaved documents on a Mac. Besides, we also provide a handy document recovery tool that helps you to recover unsaved Pages documents.

Recover Unsaved Pages Documents Using Software

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is a professional document recovery tool that can recover unsaved Pages documents quickly and safely. This powerful data recovery software can fix numerous complex data loss scenarios, such as:

Download the EaseUS trusted recovery tool, quickly scan all the recoverable Pages documents on your hard drive, and recover them with clicks!

Here are the steps to recover unsaved documents on your Mac hard drive:

Note: You can create a backup by clicking the "Disk Backup" on the left first. When the disk is damaged or the unsaved document on the disk is accidentally deleted or lost, you can get the data back from the backup image.

Step 1. Select the disk

Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac, hover the mouse over the device where you lost an unsaved file, and click "Search for lost files".

select a location and scan for unsaved documents

Step 2. Choose unsaved documents

After the scan, click "Type", and expand "Unsaved Documents". Click the exact file type - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Keynote, Pages, or Numbers you lost without saving.

choose the unsaved documents

Step 3. Preview and recover unsaved files

Double-click to preview your unsaved file, select the right version and click "Recover" to save the file to another secure location on Mac.

recover unsaved documents on Mac

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How to Use Mac Pages AutoSave to Recover Unsaved Documents

Similar to Word temporary files on a Mac, Pages for Mac provides the AutoSave feature to recover unsaved Pages documents. Check out the following steps:

Step 1. Open the Pages document you want to recover, click "File" at the top menu, and select "Revert to > Browse All Versions".

Browse All Versions of Pages file

Step 2. Choose a version you want to restore in the showing-up windows that cover all prior versions of this Pages document.

Restore a previous version of Pages file on Mac

Step 3. Click the "Restore" button to download the older version of the Pages document.

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Conclusion

This article introduces how to recover unsaved Pages documents with or without the Mac Pages AutoSave feature. Install EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac to recover unsaved documents in Pages for Mac with clicks.

Mac Pages AutoSave FAQs

Here are questions people also ask when they search for how to use the Mac Pages AutoSave feature to recover unsaved Pages documents on a Mac:

1. Does Pages automatically save your work?

Similar to other iWord apps, Pages automatically saves your document as you work and gives it a default name. You can rename the autosaved document or create a copy of it with a different name.

2. How do I stop Apple pages from auto-saving?

Follow the steps below to stop the auto-saving in Pages for Mac:

Step 1. Go to "System Preferences > General".

Step 2. Check the "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" option.

Pages autosave is disabled, and you have to save the Pages document manually.

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