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This bug still exists on beta 2.6.0.2984. I wonder if Canva is aware of it, and why certain aspects of Affinity on iPad are left broken, with such a big, healthy company behind it.

Vector Brush Tool sliders are still missing in 2.6.0.2984.

A kind reminder that on Affinity for iPad, this bug is still around almost 2 years later. Sadly, the above solution it might be great for a hobbyist playing around, but is of no use for professional work. There are numerous bugs that are not being addressed while new functions are being added over them, but this bug (and some pdf’s not recognising/ replacing fonts upon importing, which I reported before and which sadly is still around in 2.6 beta) is so bad that professionals like myself had to move away to other software to earn our bread. Please consider addressing these bugs on iPad. Respectfully, and kind regards.

How much users reply here is not my concern, but personally, over the last 6 years, every time I wanted to make a suggestion to improve the software for my professional needs, or even to complain about unsolved bugs or missing features otherwise available on other platforms, I have been met with opposition from the same vocal minority here. Putting up with hobbyist bullies didn’t worth my valuable time, so I stop beta-testing and searching for help in these forums years ago.

All 3 apps affected. M1 Pro 11, latest iPadOS.

Canva acquired smartmockups in 2021 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-22/australia-s-canva-buys-european-design-startups-to-fuel-growth Canva is shutting off smartmockups later this year: https://help.smartmockups.com/article/99-closing-smartmockups All the beautiful promises means nothing because they are not legally binding. Affinity is not partner with Canva but employees of Canva, and no matter how many pledges the beautiful people of Affinity will make because they have to hand all of their user-base to Canva, Affinity is still having no power in enforcing any of them. The only thing I want is to open my Affinity applications without being online verified. I have hundreds $$$ of purchases in add-ons and no power to use them if one day 3 years from now the verification will fail because Canva will decide that they have other plans for my future. So I’m not asking for beautiful promises, and I do not believe them either. What happens to smartmockups is incredibly upsetting and off-putting and only by pretending it doesn’t happen one could be optimist that Affinity, which has no power over their future because they are employees to Canva now, will not share the same fate sooner or later. It goes without saying that I love Affinity and everyone behind this beautiful product. I wish you all the very best.

Is this sorted out in the latest beta (which sadly I cannot try)? — because I just tried 2.3.1 and the bug is still there. All the best. RPReplay_Final1707053100.mp4

Because I have a high volume of work to which joining curves plays a central part, I find very upsetting that this bug is present in both retail version 2.2 and beta version 2.3 on the iPad. It affects both vector brush and pencil tool and no stabiliser and controller option make any difference. iPad Pro M1 11in, iPadOS 17.1 Please fix. Kind regards. RPReplay_Final1698576493.mp4 test_file_join_.afpub

The background colour is being changed for all categories, but it is remembering the settings.

Indeed! Thank you so much for your reply. Only macOS and Windows are listed as platforms above so I thought it’s not on the iPad. This is an amazing change. Thank you for this!

This is something iPad users have asked for years, because they don’t have a light interface to change to. It has been reported numerous times already that the assets panel cannot be seen in strong daylight outside for dark resources. Is there any chance to see it on the iPad too, sometimes in the future maybe?

Very late to the party as I had limited internet and couldn’t install anything substantial for weeks. Congrats for the public release.

It’s easy to criticise and reject AI from a hobbyist standpoint; not so sweet when on FS’s like fiverr the work you’re doing is made a hundred times more precise and quick by designers who use AI, literally pushing you out of business. Serif embracing or not AI features will not change the fact that our reality as artists and designers had been irremediably affected already by the generative AI. As ugly and fake our artistic reality will become, there is no turning back from it.

+1 for light mode on iPadOS.

Yes, you are right, thank you. I’ve been re-installed both apps before testing but while the retail version has auto-apply button selected by default, the beta version does not (and its place has changed); hence the confusion. Maybe a mod could erase this entry altogether — if there’s a bug it has nothing to do with this post.

Retail version works as intended, while beta version does not. Both apps installed before testing.

Thank you @walt.farrell. It means it’s iPadOS 17 beta-specific. I just found out from a mod that Affinity does not support iPadOS 17 beta yet so I will refrain from posting these so-called bugs from now on.

@NathanC Thank you for your detailed reply. I don’t think this issue is iOS 17 or Stage Manager specific. I asked a friend who has iPad Pro 2019 (A10 SoC) which runs on iPadOS 16 and I used the iPad Magic Keyboard on all Affinity 2.1.1 apps. There are issues there too because the trackpad does not work on selecting or editing the text at all (the keyboard works for everything else), so I’m thinking it could be a Magic Keyboard-related issue, maybe? I made a screen-recording below on my friend’s iPad, which shows the trackpad of iPad Magic Keyboard not interacting with text at all. Regards. RPReplay_Final1689075403.mp4

If a text is copied from an external source like Pages the text retains the styles applied, but not if the text is copied or moved from one Affinity document to another. Apologies if it’s already acknowledged. RPReplay_Final1689064771.mp4

Therefore editing text with precision is not (easily) possible. M1 iPad Pro 256gb Cellular iPadOS 17 Beta 3 iPad Magic Keyboard RPReplay_Final1689062851.mp4

My opinion will obviously not change anything but nonetheless I agree with OP: I’d be grateful for more compatibility between Beta and Public, at least for features available in both and not exclusive to Beta. Cheers!

In my work I use Inner Shadow, Outer Shadow and especially Gaussian Blur more than the Pen Tool itself sometimes. The shortcut to the Layer FX panel is obviously a step in the right direction but I think that having Shortcuts set to the effects themselves would save a lot more time.

This feature alone makes 2.2 a MASIVE update — Thank you so much for adding cross-references to iPad!

+1 for better iPad SM support. iPadOS 17 SM improvements would be useless with no 3rd party support, and Affinity is the only important developer on the iPad that offers no support for Stage Manager at all. The few predetermined sizes for the Affinity apps make SM quite difficult to use. Please have in mind better iPad support. Kind regards/

Everything looks great but the amount of care you’ve given to the hair is absolutely crazy; well done sir!