Deleting an empty page in Pages app in iPad

This should be super easy. Go to thumbnail pages, tap on the empty page, tap delete or cut. But I am encountering an issue (a bug perhaps). When I tap on the empty page, and tap delete, it generates a prompt Remove all content? All content in your document will be removed and replaced with an empty page. Then you tap Cancel or Remove.

Regardless of whether I tap remove or click delete on the keyboard, it does delete ALL contents within the entire document instead of just deleting that one single empty page.

This is so super annoying. If you can please help.

Thank you in advance.

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iPad Pro, iPadOS 16

Posted on Nov 10, 2023 12:49 PM

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Posted on May 21, 2024 2:14 PM

I figured it out in Pages on iPad. Click your document name, click document options, document setup, remove headers/footers/document body. Then I could select the last blank page in thumbnail view and delete it.

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I figured it out in Pages on iPad. Click your document name, click document options, document setup, remove headers/footers/document body. Then I could select the last blank page in thumbnail view and delete it.

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Forget about thumbnails and page layout. If your document is Word Processing, simply delete the content of that page in the body of your document. Pages that follow will move up.

Please reply if you need more details.

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Your suggestion is exactly how it should be.

But it’s not working that way. In Pages app, when you copy and paste a photo, you can freely move that photo wherever. The photo does not move along with the text. Well, the two blank pages that I am trying to delete at the end of the finished document previously contained photos. I’ve deleted those photos but the blank pages remained. This is one of those where Apple app is far from solid. Anyway, I suspected there’s a background or something that I could not see with the naked eye. So what I did was copy the contents (not the document, otherwise the two blank pages will come with the copy) to a new blank document. When I copied, voila, a left-over photo in the new copy version appeared. That was the reason. Anyway, I deleted that left-over photo in the new copied version because no matter what, that remaining photo is not displaying in the original version of the document with the two blank pages.

So, that’s how I solved the issue. Far from being an efficient method but effective, it solved the issue.