Recovering forgotten password for old Apple Pages documents

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Recovering forgotten password for old Apple Pages documents

I need to get into old page but I don’t know what my password is. I wrote these when I was in six grade and now I’m in ninth grade so I don’t remember my password. I also had to do something hard because my sister kept breaking in to them so if you can help me that will be great. I will be so mad if I can’t get into these so please override my password so I can look at what I wrote.

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Original Title: Password for pages

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Posted on Sep 26, 2025 6:23 PM

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Yellowbox

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Sep 26, 2025 10:01 PM in response to raelynn51

Hi raelynn51,

The good news is that passwords work.

The bad news is that passwords work.

Nobody here, not even Apple, can open a password-protected Pages document without the password.

Did you create a password hint in Pages?

Did you write down the password and hide it somewhere?

Do you have a version of that document on a backup before you placed the password?

Is there a version that you emailed to someone before you placed the password?

Throughout my life, I have lost or rejected possessions, documents (both paper and digital), and other things that are just "stuff". Then I realised that they were not so important. I moved on and started again.

Good luck!

Ian.

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