Reply To: Make newly added pages appear right next to current page on spread by default?

Don’t know if you still need an answer to this. I wrestled with this problem for a long time before I discovered the ‘allow pages to shuffle’ toggle like you found.

To save you having to make any keyboard shortcuts – if a setting is required as the default for you – all you do is make the selection BEFORE you open your first page – that way every page opened from then on will be placed right next to the previous one.

So, before any document is opened, go to the wee drop-down menu in the page tab, un-tick the option to shuffle the pages, open a new document and then add a page. Not only will it place the page where you want it, but the next time you open InDesign – that option will not be ticked.

This works the same for any options (as far as I’m aware)