Pages now has an annoying Edit button on the iPad. When I open a pages doc, Edit is off by default. I have to remember to tap the Edit button (top right corner) before typing. Anyway to make this off by default?
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iPad Pages update “Edit” feature
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When I start a new document, I can go right into typing. The only time I see the edit button on the top right, is when I try to edit a document that has already been started.
Yeah. That is what editing means. Changing something you have already started. Opening a new document, there is nothing to edit. Doh!
I know what editing means. I was just stating my experience with what the app was showing me as you did.
Given your condescending reply thinly veiled as an insult to me, I won’t ever bother trying to be a help to you ever again.
I'm the oddball. I like this new behavior... maybe because it is the way that Google Docs has worked for years. The ability to bring up a document initially as read-only allows me to use the document as reference without concern of accidentally altering it.
Unfortunately, there is no current way to disable "Reader View" by default.
Unfortunately, there is no current way to disable "Reader View" by default.
And now we have yet another thing to worry about - accidentally editing something - which we never gave a flying fanny about before. FFS, it’s backed up umpteen times. Why do we need a nursemaid Edit lock? Madness. Utter insanity.
As usage of the iWork suite increases in vertical markets that use iPad Minis and (to a lesser extent, iPad Pros), this "viewer/reader" mode becomes very helpful. It eliminates the need to convert documents to PDF for those use cases.
I can understand your frustration with this change, and Apple should create a user-controlled setting to enable this feature.