DM1

I find it works better if you press and hold for a second before dragging.

Here the direct link. It takes a while to download as it is a 52mb file.
https://affin.co/conceptPRO

In the interim, after creating a file, Save it.😉

Have you tried turning off Present on External Display?
I think what you have described is how it works when you have that setting on. It's described in the Help: https://affinity.help/photo2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Extras/externalDisplays.html

In the interim, after creating a file, Save it.😉

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Using even space distribution on a multiple selection will now behave differently if you have a key object nominated. This relates to either the space horizontally or space vertically options available in the alignment drop down (or Alignment Options available from the Transform panel on iPad):


 
The previous behaviour was always to space the objects in your selection with (in the case of horizontal spacing) the furthest left item and furthest right item remaining in the same position, and all other items in your selection spaced evenly between them. This is still the default behaviour.
However, the new functionality is that if you additionally specify a key object in your selection (alt-click an object) the behaviour changes to mean the furthest left object and the key object will not change position, and the other items are spaced evenly between them. This is particularly useful as you may quite often have the first two objects in your selection at the correct spacing and you want to space all other objects the same distance. Now you can nominate the second object as the key object and achieve this.
Additionally if you Alt-click the spacing button the distribution will be calculated between the furthest right object and the key object.
Below shows the different results:

 
All the above showing results for horizontal spacing, but the same applies to vertical spacing when working top to bottom.

For the beginners in the room, I'd love a little link to explain how Regular Expressions work. I love documentation though, just me.
 

Hey @DM1,
This is a known issue on iPad with adjustment interface which can flicker/disappear when the screen is tilted at certain angles. I'll bump the existing issue with your report and hopefully we'll see this fixed soon as it is disruptive.
The OCIO adjustment dropdown menus lack of space has also been logged previously so i'll bump this.

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the beta build 2.3.0.2157
(fixes since the post above for 2.3.0.2139)
Please only reply in this forum to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
Spiral Tool: Decay slider uses and accepts decimals [AF-888] PDF 2.0 Passwords That Include Certain ASCII 2-Byte Characters Fail to Display When Placed in Affinity Apps  [AF-1000]   Updated help and localisation Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Updating Linked resource in-app does not visually update linked file, remains as 'OK' in resource manager with no option to update     Bleed fails to print when range is set to Artboards  [AF-739] Cannot delete cross-reference from text frame locked to master. [AF-1122] Cross Reference: Paragraph Body references itself when created instead of selected paragraph [AF-1124] Cross reference > Can use keyboard shortcuts to bold / emphasis / underline text  [AF-1135] Resource manager > Original DPI does not update when the file is changed  [AF-1106] Entering password for PDF modification then moving focus switches text to Open text field in Export Persona     Editing a linked document with multiple artboards, incorrectly auto-updates artboard selection to artboard 1  [AF-28] Relinking Missing Artboard document reverts all placed versions of the file to the first Artboard in the list     Live filters cause bleed to export blank [AF-465] Bleed fails to export when you have an adjustment layer on an artboard  [AF-413] Move Data Entry Tool doesn't Duplicate consistently on other pages when using Previous Settings  [AF-661] Right-clicking a line of selected text where it goes over the bounding box crashes the app     Frankentoon Splat macro packs crash the apps    Bugs affecting Windows
Lock Colourspace changes the colourspace     Dragging an Asset with a layer behind the Asset Studio UI will unexpectedly select the object behind as you drag  [AF-1222] Dragging an Asset onto canvas ignores layer selection and always inserts asset at top of layers stack     Spiral Tool: Decay text label value increases by decimal points when dragged rather than integer values.     Cross-References - slight clipping issue     Table formats Panel- Adjusting the Table Stroke pressure causes an app crash  [AF-1209] Move/Duplicate gives different results when facing pages is used  [AF-622] Create Spiral dialog on Windows is missing buttons and highlights Page Box for placed PDFs is lost between file close and reopen     Unable to check the box for 'Enable HDR' after converting to 32-bit App crashes when attempting to Create Account after restoring MS Store purchase     App can take a long time to close down  [AF-1215] Bugs affecting macOS
Cancelling placement of a password-protected PDF unexpectedly displays the PDF Options dialog Error shows password incorrect when placing a password protected PDF, app must be force quit. [macOS] Allow scale to go to 1 decimal place [macOS] Licence dialog's 'Please enter your Affinity ID and password...' text string is untranslated Filler Text is now incorrectly appearing as a word to 'Look up'. Toggling PDF password visibility when using forbidden characters causes overlapping text issue Move data entry - Adjusting the layer's opacity does not force a redraw on the duplicates Hidden password to open PDF is cleared when Open Password is disabled in Export Persona PDF password for modification requires 2 clicks to enable when password to open is enabled in Export persona macOS Main Window fails to re-appear when reopening documents via dragging over dock icon or open via double click [AF-989] [macOS] Unable to delete System Palettes on macOS [AF-1223] Move data entry - rotate and scale broken on multi-page doc Styles labels do not obey font size UI preference Bullet and Numbering heading gets truncated using Large Fonts  [AF-144] Potential fix for M2 Mac flashing workspace (still in review)  [AF-473] Bugs affecting iPad
Licence dialog's 'Please enter your Affinity ID and password...' text string is untranslated Menu flyouts can't be dismissed via a tap on the same button Edit swatch pop-up has a grey background and hard to see text labels Long Press menu on document palette not showing correctly

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the beta build 2.3.0.2139
(fixes since the post above for 2.3.0.2114)
Please only reply in this forum to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
Crash when deleting Notes from Master page, if pages are added after note creation  [AF-1057]   Rename Spiral Tool's 'Segment angle' to 'Arc angle' Updated help and localisation Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Spiral presets should show without a fill Edit Cross-References Panel: Search From Start field is cut off [AF-781]    Light UI: Show in Explorer button is too dark and looks out of place Appearance Panel buttons look disabled in Light UI  [AF-252]   Linking to Dropbox will hang the app  [AF-923]   Crash deleting a macro from a category Cannot delete Document or Application Palettes, option is greyed out or prompt does not show. [AF-1108]    Cross references need updating when objects pasted inline above target  [AF-959]   Exporting to PDF RGB/8 with placed images always converts them to 'sRGB2014' regardless of export settings  [AF-946]   Adding a spread prior to Page 1 in a document is causing all text to disappear [AF-458]    Certain files have planar memory leaks when opening and rendering Lock icon on Glyph Browser uses the V1 style of Lock icon [AF-800]    Table rotated by 90, the resizing indicators are incorrect [AF-861]    Artboard's Layer Panel tooltip displays as 'Rectangle'  [AF-831]   Create Spiral dialog has a Turns cap of 400 instead of 200     Adjusting Spiral Tool's angle sliders with 6 decimal places seems off. List numbering does not sync correctly across multiple files in a book  [AF-1076]   Files error when exporting with PDF Tagging enabled Tagging should be enabled by default in PDF Export preset Text doesn't re-flow when group size indirectly decreased Bugs affecting Windows
PDF Export: Images/pixel layers missing from exporting book Cross reference > Can use keyboard shortcuts to bold / emphasis / underline text [AF-1135]    PDF Presets with Passwords defined do not display the password when selecting them (Windows) Spiral Tool: Clicking on the inside or outside of the path should place the caret appropriately Spiral Tool: Decay text label cannot be dragged on Windows [AF-1105]    Live Stack Method menu cannot be scrolled using the scrollbar, attempting to use the scrollbar results in dialog remaining 'stuck' on screen [AF-965]       Text > Character Traits shows Strikeout. Other references in app shows as Strikethrough [AF-896]    Recent dialog: Grid/List view button doesn't update when changing UI style Colour Picker Text is not centred [AF-105]    Edit Cross-References dialog: Can drag the divider and cause the Page/Paragraph Text to disappear Crash opening a document with an embedded password protected multi page PDF Files in a Write Denied folder should open in a read-only state [AF-808]    Unable to open/save to Documents with controlled folder access enabled Should we add an ellipsis when we purposely truncate text? New Document dialog: Recent 'List view' isn't remembered Spiral Tool: Text tools do not start where you click Shape Presets: The Preference button is a bit small on Windows Shape Preset: Dialog just says app name instead of 'Create preset' Users files causing crash when Adding Pages From Files [AF-1042]    Replacing a Linked & Missing PDF resets the Spread and Page Box options [AF-1088]    It is possible to change the origin of the pixel grid Drag and dropping .afbook into app, then closing book from the Book Studio does not release hold of the file correctly  [AF-1080]   Changing PDF compatibility creates 2 pop-ups Resource manager > Original DPI does not update when the file is changed (fixed on Windows, still pending on macOS) [AF-1106]    Bugs affecting macOS
Eye icon does not change to Hide icon when setting Password PDF on MacOS Deleting a linked swatch from all apps leaves swatch as unlinked in other 2 apps  [AF-1111]    Redraw issue. Bounding box does not display for new selection after using scroll bar until you force Redraw  [AF-295]    Searching for Assets, doesn't hide subcategories with no results on macOS Inserting a subfield into a cross-reference's text overwrites any and all existing text  [AF-907]    Files in a Read Only folder should open in a read only state - incorrect error message shown  [AF-810]    Books - Synchronise Setting controls don't work correctly when synchronising text styles  [AF-556]    Illegal PDF Password error message reported on any operation in password field Table panel > Cell doesn't display link icon by default in Light UI Find and Replace fields won't show the Clear (X) icon when selecting special characters or fields until focus is changed  [AF-1011]    PDF Password import: OK is greyed out until you tab away/click elsewhere Tags Panel - can't make visible after persona switch PDF Export: the highlight box for Open password is clipped Bugs affecting iPad
iPad cmd-D shortcut doesn't work to deselect objects Curves Adjustment spline editor should show splines for all channels Histogram not showing on Adjustments   [AF-928]  Spiral Tool: Segment Angle cap on iPad is at 180 deg Escape key on iPad fails to function as Escape like on Desktop   [AF-1100]  Esc key shown as 'UIKEYINPUTESCAPE' when customising Shortcuts   [AF-1099]  Hardware keyboard issue: Deselect command doesn't work for objects, only pixel selections  [AF-1092]   Button to close Convert to Field dialog is missing Unable to get the long press dialog on learnt/ignored words

Oh dear, same result as you. No popup menu for itmap access.

Suggest you post as a new post. You have added to a Photo app issue post. Mods have been and gone so you may not get a response from them. And no, it shouldn’t crash like that.🙂

Yes, I recall something from mods recently in response to resize issue on  Designer. A bug report identifying this as an issue, so fix should be coming.
🙂

It’s ok in current rel and beta.

Apps: Designer
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
When using Pencil Tool the behaviour has always been that after drawing any curve that curve is then selected. There has been many requests to add an option to change that behaviour so the newly created curve is not selected. This is particularly useful when you often want to change the colour or stroke width of the curve you create next without changing the properties of the curve you have just created.
You can find this option in the context toolbar of the Pencil Tool (“Keep selected” checkbox, default value is on as per current behaviour).
On iPad the option is represented with the below icon (again it's toggled on by default)

 
We have also added this option to all shape tools on iPad too. This was previously available on desktop versions only (note we have also changed the name of that option on desktop from "Select new object" to "Keep selected" for consistency)

Yes, absolutely - apologies that was in fact one of the intentions when implementing this but wasn't in the first beta build. It will be like this in the beta update next week.

I think this is a useful addition.
It would be more useful, I think, and please a lot of users more, if it was coupled in Photo with restoring the old behavior of the Automatic Grid. Now, with this new function, Photo has two ways of showing a Pixel Grid: View Grid and the Automatic Grid that gives you, and View Pixel Grid from the View menu.
Designer and Publisher have a much more visible and user-friendly grid when View Grid is chosen (with the default Automatic setting), but Photo has shown the Pixel Grid by default for Automatic since V2 started. As long as you're working on Grid options, please consider fixing that discrepancy, so Photo matches Designer and Publisher again.

Hi All,
Thanks for these comments. I think for this release we are just focused on making sure the pixel grid works as expected. Discussion around wording / function of snapping options is something we'd have to come back to another time if we feel it important.
I think the main thing is that our intention is the pixel grid is purely a visual cue / help, when editing images in Affinity Photo when you are zoomed into areas which have little colour variance so you can easily see where the pixels are - but of course also has some use cases when working in Designer and Publisher which is why we have included the option in those apps too. It was not designed to be a grid which is snappable, as we have have existing options for that (whether or not they need improving is separate to this feature), and also fundamentally that pixel snapping is something you should be able to do without having the pixel grid turned on.

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
 
We have now added a spiral tool which is available from the shape tools flyout. This is something we have had many requests for, but also varying requests as to the type of result wanted. For that reason we have tried to make this as flexible as possible, both offering different types of spiral and variables to adjust.
When you create a spiral you will see from the context toolbar the different options available. Here are some examples of what you can create with the tool:
Spiral Type: Linear

Spiral Type: Decaying

Spiral Type: Semi-Circular
This type replicates the way many people have been creating a spiral in Affinity - effectively by joining decreasing semi circular arcs together.  With this type we also offer a counter Semi-circular option which returns the spiral back on itself:

Spiral Type: Fibonacci

Spiral Type: Plotted

 
 

No, but I think there should be an option to do this. I'll feed it back.

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
You can now choose whether you want the background of the Asset Panel to be light, dark, checkerboard or automatic based on your current Light/Dark UI setting. This behaves in the same way as changing the background colour used for layer thumbnails.
This is primarily to be able to switch the background to achieve greater contrast for the particular assets you are looking at.
You can change the background colour from the burger menu at the top of the assets panel.
          
 

 
 

Looking at video it appears you are resizing canvas, not document but still it shouldn’t crash. 
Does it do it with all files or just this one?
Could you attach a copy of the file/photo for us to check out.
 
 

My saving rituals need to be altered and more frequent, so this doesn’t happen again.
I appreciate your help and rapid responses. 
thank you🙏🏿

Are you saving externally?
Your Home Screen shows dozens of files retained in sandbox (this is intended to be a temporary storage area). The (M) next to a file name on Home Screen indicates file not saved.
Tap the 3 bar menu and tap Save to create a ‘real’ file external to sandbox. Save this to a folder (other than the default app folder) and you will have a file you can access, backup etc.

@TrentL This is one of the most useful tutorials I have watched. A lot of information and clearly explained. Thank you.