Littleguybigcity

Very sorry, I didn't realize you weren't associated. My bad. My problem isn't in the transform tool, but in the shape tool itself. I need to be able to drag a circle or any shape for that matter out and simultaneously resize it while being able to move it around to match a drawing that is on a layer below it. I don't want to have to make an arbitrary circle, move it, and then resize and move it around etc. I need to be able to just pull out a circle and move it around while being able to edit it. In all the affinity tutorials they do exactly this, but in mine for whatever reason while in the shape tool a two finger hold doesn't move my shape, but just draws from the center. 4 fingers for whatever reason allows me to move the circle, but it switches to a drawn from center ellipse of a seemingly arbitrary size. I know this is confusing, but it is confusing to me that that would be the only option for moving while being live and editable. What I need is a really basic operation, so the inability to do so seems like it couldn't be anything other than a bug, especially when in all the tutorials and information they show the program doing exactly what I need it to do.

Yes, Touch for Gestures only is on. In your newest help file (built in) it still shows that two fingers while shape tool is active moves the shape, which it should, but as my photo shows, two fingers instead is drawing out from the center and there is no way to move the object while it is live except for 4 fingers, which does this strange thing of moving a "drawn from center" shape, except the shape is smaller. I can't think of any application for a move like that. It can't be right. In all the pictures above, I'm moving nothing and just placing gesture fingers down. You can see what is happening in the picture.

On the iPad the shape tool isn't working the way it needs to. The gestures are all wrong and are making the very necessary tool useless. Two fingers on every single tutorial posted by Serif is supposed to move the shape around. As shown in the picture that isn't what happens. The only way to move anything around is 4 fingers and it just makes a smaller version of a "drawn from center" ellipse. Please tell me this can be fixed. These are vital operations.

My shape tool gestures on Affinity Designer iPad are different than all those found in your tutorials. I have no way to move my shape while it is live and editable. The gestures using an ellipse on my program are as follows: 1 finger -> constrain to perfect circle 2 fingers-> ellipse from center (not perfect circle) 3 fingers-> from center perfect circle 4 fingers -> movable, but only the shape from 2 fingers ( ellipse from center) To only be able to move an ellipse from center has to be a mistake. What can be done to fix this? In every tutorial it says that 2 fingers are used to be able to move the ellipse around. The shape tool is basically useless if you can't move the shape around while it is live.