Paul Mudditt

Are you using the iPadOS 15.4 beta as that is a defect I can see as well. Apple are changing the ways apps access memory to give apps like Affinity greater access to the extra RAM on M1 iPad's so I suspect there is a problem with the export buffer only being written to once, requiring the app to be closed and restarted before the next export works.

Yeah 64GB is a little low for the iPad agreed. My iPhone is 64GB and also has access to all my 2TB of iCloud documents and photos but usually keeps about 17GB free automatically for software updates, which are every other week for me as I'm on the IOS beta program as well. I also use the Offload Unused Apps for my 107 apps on the iPhone and 151 apps on my iPad. which I think is a great idea, saved me having to decide which apps to delete from all the ones I've collected since 2010.

You don't appear to have made a rough selection first using the selection tools. Then use refine selection around the rough edges as I show here. IMG_0926.MOV

That is strange, all my documents are in (iCloud 142GB)and take up very little space on my iPad (9GB). I do store in my own private folders though and not the app created folders.

No, it also depends what is going on in the background which is entirely in Apple's control.

I concur, 256GB is more than enough, to be honest I never ran out of space on my older iPad Pro 128GB but that is because I use iCloud which is much more cost effective and practical than a larger capacity iPad. Just remember to turn on Optimise Storage.

Try changing your export options to preserve edit-ability.

Pretty sure the battery issues are more to do with iPadOS15 than Serif.

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I have a very large photo album (>50'000) in my iCloud Photo album which I can access perfectly on my iPad version of AP but the API method that Affinity on the desktop uses is very poor and often times out and vanishes from the Finder like interface currently used. If you take a look at the app 'Raw Power' it shows all my albums as easily as opening the photos app. I know Raw Power was written by an ex member of the Apple team but whatever inside knowledge he has needs to be transferred to the Serif team. I use an 16GB M1 Mac Mini, an Intel Macbook and this has been like this on all macOS since I first changed over to Mac in 2016. Currently on macOS Monterey. I also have optimise storage turned on but even when I used to download all to my Mac the Affinity Photo interface to photos was very slow/unusable. Screen recording comparing Affinity Photos trying to access iCloud Photos and Raw Power app doing the same. 1909368935_ScreenRecording2022-03-11at08_08_12.mov

My apologies, I should have highlighted what I said in bold, " the nuclear option of saving everything you can to a private iCloud structure (to avoid it being deleted accidentally)"

Hi, thank you for the NEF file, I can confirm when imported into photos then imported into Affinity it becomes severely pixelated. When imported from iCloud it works correctly into the Develop persona.. Also if you create a new blank document and place the image from photos it comes in as a high resolution image but obviously skips the develop persona which is not ideal. Hopefully a QA person will be along shortly for their opinion.

@rbrunoUnfortunately that is not a Nikon .NEF raw file you uploaded it is a JPG. You should be able to use the share option in the photos app and then select save to files which should export one of your unedited .NEF raw files you could upload.

Welcome to the forums ! Sounds like you are loading an optimised JPG version of an image, some additional details would help. 1. How are you loading into Affinity app, via import from photos, via drag and drop from photos or from the share interface via a shortcut from photos? 2. What camera model are your raw images from and can you upload an example here in raw format for others to investigate with ?

The problem you have is the bug may already have been fixed by an App update OR an iPadOS update, but the space taken may well remain until you take the nuclear option of saving everything you can to a private iCloud structure (to avoid it being deleted accidentally) and re-install the app.

1. iCloud demo. 2. Onedrive demo. IMG_0812.MOV IMG_0813.MOV

Check under Settings -> Privacy -> Photos -> Photo -> All Photos. If that is ok, then try closing all open apps and do a Forced restart

Make sure your selected layer is a Pixel layer, rasterise it if needed then switch from Selection Persona to Photo Persona on the Persona Toolbar at the top then use Commands -> Duplicate Selection if you do not have a keyboard attached. If you do have an external keyboard attached use CTRL+C, CTRL+V as per desktop.

Welcome to the forums. When you edit RAW files in affinity you would never normally overwrite your original image as the option is not there. If you save the file it will be saved as a .afphoto file. If you exported the file then it can take on several file formats such as JPG, PNG, TIF, PSD, PDF but not any RAW formats etc It would be helpful if you could provide additional information as to what type of camera and RAW images you were using e.g. Canon .CR2, Nikon .NRW etc. It would also help of you described the steps you took and where you were loading your images from, Apple Photos? an iCloud folder?, On my iPad folder?, an external drive etc?

On older iPads with limited RAM best to set autosave interval to minimum value 30 seconds. The reason is nothing to do with Serif and everything to do with how multitasking works on iPadOS and how iPadOS handles memory. Affinity uses lots of RAM so when you switch to another app that also needs RAM iPadOS terminates Affinity's use of that RAM hence data can be lost when task switching. You may find it also helps to close any other apps you are not using as they may be holding onto RAM that Affinity needs. On newer iPads, like the M1 iPad Pro that I have just migrated to it does not occur because it has more RAM. But on my 9.7" iPad Pro this happened very often.

Yes I can repeat that, so not a problem with your iPad, definitely odd and never come across that before. Weird but easy to work around at least. The Dev's will either already have this logged or will soon !

Did you check the On My iPad Affinity folders as they will be included in the calculation. Last resort is to uninstall app and re-install it so long as you have saved all your work outside the app.

Ah, this looks like you must have turned on 'Protect Alpha' on the context toolbar, try turning this control off. NOTE: When screen recording, if you turn on 'Show Touches' temporarily under preferences, we can see where you are painting and which on screen buttons you are using if this solution does not fix the problem for you.

Once you rasterise the 'object' it becomes a limited by canvas layer. With that layer selected and rasterised try painting outside the old 'object' boundaries and it will be part of that layer.

I use iCloud on Mac, PC and iPad and work seamlessly between all three platforms. All you have to remember is to save then close a shared file on one platform before opening on another. If the file is still in your iPad Affinity home screen sandbox then it is still open and must be closed for seamless interchanges between platforms. EDIT2: Updated, thanks @walt.farrell