James Galpin

Hi All,
Another update to the 2.3 beta has just been pushed and should be available to you now via auto-update. Various fixes are included in this which are listed here.
Thanks,
Ash

Thank you so much.  Really hoping this makes it into the next update as it stops me drawing on the ipad.  Thanks for listening...
 

Hi @James Galpin,
Thanks for your report!
I can confirm I've been able to replicate this behaviour here and I'm getting it logged with our development team now - I was not aware that this key could be mapped to ESC, therefore I suspect it's usage has been overlooked in Affinity for iPad.
My understanding of the expected behaviour would be for this key to act as it does on Desktop and deselect the active object/layer, and I therefore don't believe it should be assignable to a custom shortcut for a different action, so I'll be sure to include this within the development log also.
I hope this helps

Yes, I have tried several key combos on the ipad keyboard (smart folio type) and none work.

iOS Designer 2.3
Ipad 11" Pro
Deselect button on the screen works, but the deslect key command shortcut doesn't.  This was a problem in 2.2 as well.  Please sort this. It stops me vector drawing on the iPad.  Which is a shame as that's why I bought it.

Any reason why this doesn't also work with the paint bucket?

Hi,
You can set it in the Text/Frame zone:

It's one way on my pc.  Windows 10.  

This may not be a bug, but a limitation of the software.
I am an architect and use Designer for site analysis graphics, amongst many other uses.  The graphics tend to be built up using many layers, each of which has a unique bit of data.  I then bring the graphic into publisher and select which layers I want to show.
Two things:
I have found that if I copy an placed asset and double click to edit the layers, the layer changes will affect the copy and the original.  So to avoid this, I place a fresh instance of the graphic for each view.  This works fine.
Until...
If I make a change to the original designer file, the resource manager quite helpfully tells me to update the content in the publisher file.   But... every instance of the placed graphic then gets reset to the same layer settings, so I have to go through the whole report, resetting all the layer structures.
Is there a way of the placed asset remembering the layer settings?
If not, can I please request this as a tweak to the next iteration of Publisher?
Many thanks.  Loving the software.

FWIW, there was another topic asking about this & one of the staff explained that if you do not allow screen recording access to your Affinity apps, the picker should still work, but only in the app window, not elsewhere on the screen.

No symbol palette option for me either.  Windows and Mac English.
I used this quite a lot previously, but it was a risky feature, particularly in conjunction with populated master pages.