How to Open a Pages File on iPhone or iPad

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

This wikiHow teaches you how to use the Pages app on your iPhone or iPad to view a Pages file saved to a cloud drive.

Steps

1
Install Pages from the App Store. Here’s how to get it:
- Open the App Store [[Image:|techicon|x30px]] on your iPhone or iPad. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.
- Tap Search.
- Type pages into the search bar.
- Tap Pages (the one with the orange icon containing a pen drawing a line).
- Tap GET.
- Tap Install.
2
Open Pages. It’s the orange icon with a pen drawing a line inside. You should find it on the home screen. If you’re still in the App Store, you can launch the app by tapping OPEN.

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3
Tap Browse. It’s at the bottom-right corner of the screen. This opens a list of your files in the iCloud Drive. Files saved to your iCloud Drive will appear here.
4
Browse for the file. If your file is saved to the iCloud Drive, it should appear on this screen (or within one of the folders on the screen).
- If you’re using a different cloud server, tap the left-arrow at the top of the screen (left of the “iCloud Drive” header) twice to go to the “Locations” screen, then browse to the drive and folder that contains your file.
5
Tap the file to view it. The file will open in the Pages app.

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