jessewatson

Just wanted to follow up to say the font wasn't the thing. For some reason updating my OS to 12.6.4 did the trick. Thanks you all for responding!

Info below... How do I give Affinity apps full disk access rights? Also, I remember now the last thing I did was install and use a new font - Amazon ember. It seemed to work fine. Then I came back to the app and it was as described above. And so were all the other Affinity apps. Monterey 12.2.1 (21D62) Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1 Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 3 MB Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled Memory: 8 GB System Firmware Version: 428.60.3.0.0 OS Loader Version: 540.80.2~11 SMC Version (system): 2.28f7 Serial Number (system): C02R9TFBFVH3 Hardware UUID: B1FA746E-B304-518B-B46A-69D7A4F11E25 Provisioning UDID: B1FA746E-B304-518B-B46A-69D7A4F11E25

So this happened all of a sudden today -- I don't think anything has changed recently, though maybe I updated to the most recent version of Affinity photo recently, not sure. Anyway, right after I double-click the icon to launch, the splash screen appears, then the app interface shows for a split second. Then the interface is gone, as if minimized or hidden. I can see the app is running because there is still a dot under the icon in the ribbon at the bottom, and I can right-click to quit the app... But when I right-click the icon and choose the "Show" option, I get a big gray box. When I choose "Show all windows" , I get a message that says "no available windows". I'd like to try the factory reset option to see if that fixes it, but when I try to launch by holding down CTRL key, it just activates the right-click context menu, which is what CTRL key does on a mac. Command key seems to have no effect at all-- just does the same behavior as above. Advice? -update - and as the subject mentions, all Affinity products do the same thing... Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2 (I have the universal license)