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We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer 2 for iPad, version 2.0.4 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for iPad 2.0.4 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for iPad 2.0.3) are as follows: Changes in this build (since the last release 2.0.3) Fix guides panel showing wrong position for guides on artboards Fixed Register your licence prompt appears on every run up if the user doesn't register Fixed sliders allowing values over 100% when it doesn’t make sense (e.g. opacity) Can reset stroke pressure easily again (using long press or tap). Fixed non-ASCII characters not being accepted in license usernames Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4 Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was used to insert them. [AFB-7053] Assorted stability fixes Help and Localisation updates. Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. Alternatively go to the iPad Store Search page, type in "Affinity," which shows all the V2 apps, & then tap on each of their thumbnails (not the Open button) which after a brief delay changes the Open button in the app page to "Update." However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.4 This build is available as a (sandboxed) MSIX application installer and as an (unsandboxed) MSI/EXE traditional installer. Please see this FAQ thread for instructions on how to access the unsandboxed MSI/EXE version. The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.4 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.3) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.3) Cannot set stroke width if units not set to points. [AFD-6276] Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was used to insert them. [AFB-7053] Fixed non-ASCII characters not being accepted in license usernames Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4 Editing an embedded PDF does not create a History step, meaning changes are lost when closing as no save prompt is shown Assorted stability fixes Help & localisation improvements. Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer ). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.4 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.4 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.3) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.3) Fixed: "Register your licence" prompt appears on every run up when a Mac App Store user doesn't register the license on the Affinity Store. Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was used to insert them. [AFB-7053] App crash upon startup caused by a deleted "Recently Used" file on Catalina ‘Help’->’Visit Support Forums’ menu item goes to the forums again Fix for non-primary Persona menus having broken ‘Help’->’Tutorials’ links. Fix gradual slow down after changing tools many times. Fixed non-ASCII characters not being accepted in license usernames Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4 Editing an embedded PDF does not create a History step, meaning changes are lost when closing as no save prompt is shown Assorted stability fixes Help & localisation improvements. Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store — updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

Great update! V2 overall has met or exceeded all my expectations! Thanks for the awesome work!

I want to sincerely thank the design and dev teams for the v2 improvements. I'm just now diving into them more seriously, but even just the auto-update feature and building that in is SO convenient and worthy of praise- thank you for recognizing the most common pain points and reducing friction in those areas! Keep it up!

I got 100mbps fiber connection, and generally affinity servers are quite fast, I mean I didn't noticed when it even downloaded the app, after realizing it was idle it didn't downloaded anything. As for the system it was idle most of the time of updating. I was wondering if the update was crashed after a couple of min (so far all the setups of affinity take like less than a minute) and checked the task manager. Barely some cpu usage, and some SSD usage here and there but from other unrelated processes. It took like 10 minutes or less for something that is a 1 min job so far. Maybe it was some bug? Anyway it worked and it is nice to be able to update through the app, it just took it's sweet time with no good reason, so maybe there is something broken somewhere.

It depends on your PC specs. On my laptop it's quite slow. On my main desktop, it's easy to miss the update process entirely if I look away.

If you mean last week, then the Photo 2.0.3.1682 and Publisher 2.0.3.1682 you get were not the final release builds. Everything for Windows was officially released yesterday as 2.0.3.1688, and you need to update Photo and Publisher again if they are not yet 2.0.3.1688 (as shown in My Account top right)

Thank you for the update. Although the updating is extremely slow and task manager barely show any activity. (not even download)

On a side note. If you get the update dialog and you click "update now" and it immediately fails, start your application as administrator (Right click, run as administrator) and it'll update.

Hi, it seems to me that this issue was fixed by last MacOS Ventura 13.1 update. I don't want to be too much optimistic but it did not happened to me since. Before 13.1 i was not able to save any changes on ExFAT disc.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.0.3 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.0.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.0) New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions afpackage fails to find Resources on Open Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements Saving to External Drive gives "Failed to Save" error on macOS Ventura Fix for export of Books with Bleed Preview exported PDF fails on book exports Opening and closing chapters in a book can leave the files locked / read only Crash opening a bunch of chapters from a book simultaneously Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Fix for Booklet printing model Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Merge runs of tabs using leaders Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Place Images panel remains open on document close Fixed Help menu links Light UI Improvements Fix for disappearing rulers Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Auto flow place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Swatches panel shows different colour to that of the Text Frames Fill flyout set to same swatches Editing Fields Panel can cause app to crash on Ventura Pages Panel, double clicking does not zoom page to view Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Hidden/Empty columns/rows are ignored when importing xlsx files into Data Merge, causes fields to get out of sync Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.3 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.0) New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Shape Builder Tool now has an additional option to delete open curves that were inside a newly created area, plus you can now hold Alt to delete areas while still in Add mode - more to come... Warp Group editing now supports the Shift modifier to lock node edits to an 8-axis grid. Also can be used with off-curve nodes to maintain their angle while dragging them DWG Import scaling improvements Saving to External Drive gives "Failed to Save" error on macOS Ventura Current DPI of selected layer does not show in V2 Using the Select object/ transparency object selects all objects New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Update for HEIF importer Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Pen tool tweaks and fixes Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Resource Manager updates Fix for disappearing rulers Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.0.3 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.0.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.0) New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Lens Correction in Develop Persona has no effect on non-Raw files when a Lens Profile is applied Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Some functions in layers context menu should not be available for non-child items. Update for HEIF importer Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Pen tool tweaks and fixes Saving to External Drive gives "Failed to Save" error on macOS Ventura Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Resource Manager updates Fixed Curves adjustment settings panel 'Colour Space' picker being blank when colour space is RGBU Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Searching in the Library panel crashes the app if you have more than just the default category Ensure global colour edits update live Fixed straighten in the develop persona Fixed exclusion blend mode in 16bit RGB Fixed adjustment parameters undo Fixed sync before / after in develop Fixed image place recording in macros Fixed outline layer effect RAW loading speed improvements Assorted assets panel fixes Assorted other fixes Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.0.3 We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release. The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions afpackage fails to find Resources on Open Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements Opening and closing chapters in a Book can leave the files locked / read only Crash opening a bunch of chapters from a Book simultaneously Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Preview exported PDF fails on Book exports Fix for export of Books with Bleed Fix for Booklet printing model Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Merge runs of tabs using leaders Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Pages Panel, double clicking does not zoom page to view Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Hidden/Empty columns/rows are ignored when importing xlsx files into Data Merge, causes fields to get out of sync Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher ). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.3 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows: We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release. Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.0) New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Current DPI of selected layer does not show in V2 Shape Builder Tool now has an additional option to delete open curves that were inside a newly created area, plus you can now hold Alt to delete areas while still in Add mode - more to come... Warp Group editing now supports the Shift modifier to lock node edits to an 8-axis grid. Also can be used with off-curve nodes to maintain their angle while dragging them Modifying Global Colour swatch fails to update document until you click out of the Colour Selector Sliders for Warp Group are broken Using the Select object/ transparency object selects all objects Symbols - Delinked nodes get forgotten when swapping out nodes from synchronised instances Shape Builder Tool: Alt to delete on rotated shapes fails Shape Builder Tool: sometimes drags out a selection marquee Shape Builder Tool: functional improvements on some shapes Placed documents with bleed fail to render the top and left side correctly Quotes can be incorrectly put on newlines and cause text to render differently compared to V1 Straightening in the Develop Persona offsets the image from the canvas entirely, until developed or crashes Transform Panel- Differences in panel size when switching between Curve strokes and expanded objects Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z isn't working in V2 apps for adjustments Outline Layer Effect is making the anti-aliased edges transparent, rather than blending with the shapes colour Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node Fixed spurious "future version" error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements DWG file takes a long time to open then shows incorrectly (file specific). Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Resource Manager updates Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer ). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.0.3 We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release. The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Placed documents with bleed fail to render the top and left side correctly Lens Correction in Develop Persona has no effect on non-Raw files when a Lens Profile is applied Quotes can be incorrectly put on newlines and cause text to render differently compared to V1 Can't place image when recording a macro in Photo V2 V2 opens raw files slower than V1 Running a V1 Macro that uses 'Add Image' (Place) crashes app - also applies to Batch Processing Importing .JPG and .TIFF files with Keywords only displays the last keyword in the Metadata panel Straightening in the Develop Persona offsets the image from the canvas entirely, until developed or crashes Exclusion blend mode causing unexpected results on 16bit file layers with blown highlights Transform Panel- Differences in panel size when switching between Curve strokes and expanded objects Tone Mapping Preset options missing. Blemish Tool failing after developing image. Develop Persona 'Sync Before' no longer functions Lens Correction Mis-Centered for Portrait Orientation Raw Files Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S not identified Phase One IIQ files are being rendered all black Mesh Warp doesn't work with multiple Outline FX. Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z isn't working in V2 apps for adjustments Incorrect AF region display for Canon PowerShot G1X Mark III White Balance Tool giving different results for Infrared processing. Outline Layer Effect is making the anti-aliased edges transparent, rather than blending with the shapes colour Fixed Curves adjustment settings panel 'Colour Space' picker being blank when colour space is RGBU Crop Tool displays checkerboard when rotating image in Develop Persona. The Patch Tool doesn't work with Global Sources & 'Set Global Source' remains greyed out Unable to Undo crop after pressing Enter key in Develop Persona. Blemish Tool lag in Develop Persona Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node (Windows) Fixed spurious "future version" error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Some functions in layers context menu should not be available for non-child items. Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Resource Manager updates Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iOS release of Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad, version 2.0.3(note this 2.0.3 build calls itself 2.0.3.1686 in Preferences, but is nevertheless 2.0.3 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build (since the last release 2.0.2) The fixes and improvements in Affinity Photo for iPadOS 2.0.3 are as follows: Trash can added bottom left for quick delete (command controller toggle now moved to burger menu) Clearer drop zone indication for dropping layers inside New document and open buttons on Home Screen now expand additional options by default (without needing to swipe down) to make them more easily discoverable New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) afpackage fails to find Resources on Open Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Unable to drag aftemplate and afpackage files into the app Allow opening afdesign / afphoto / afpub files as template Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes New paragraph style > Bullets and numbering > Unable to add text to the "Text" field Update for HEIF importer Fixed lack of preflight warning on Print or Export Export Panel UI fixes Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Command Controller position should persist across documents and sessions Pen tool tweaks and fixes Split and Reverse missing from Node Tool Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Merge runs of tabs using leaders Tweaks to fix some spurious behaviour on interaction with Apple Autocorrect Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Insert Filler Text does not work if not in text insertion mode Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Fixed crash on Replace Image Fixes for Drag Drop of Stock images Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Command Controller positioning improvements Fixes for Display Scale Zoomed Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Master Page management improvements Fixed some view corruption issues when switching pages / master pages etc Status bar layout / clipping fixes Colour Picker Tool always shows white selection on Multipage documents. Document grid fixes Context menu fixes Fixed Navigator in multi-spread views Fixed assigning shortcuts from a keyboard cover Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names Unable to open Guide or Grid settings after dismissing by tapping the canvas Help and Localisation updates Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer 2 for iPad, version 2.0.3 (note this 2.0.3 build calls itself 2.0.3.3 in Preferences, but is nevertheless 2.0.3 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build (since the last release 2.0.2) Trash can added bottom left for quick delete (command controller toggle now moved to burger menu) Shape Builder Tool now has an additional option to delete open curves that were inside a newly created area - more to come... Warp Group editing now supports the Shift modifier to lock node edits to an 8-axis grid. Also can be used with off-curve nodes to maintain their angle while dragging them Clearer drop zone indication for dropping layers inside New document and open buttons on Home Screen now expand additional options by default (without needing to swipe down) to make them more easily discoverable New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Update for HEIF importer Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Command Controller position should persist across documents and sessions Pen tool tweaks and fixes Split and Reverse missing from Node Tool Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Tweaks to fix some spurious behaviour on interaction with Apple Autocorrect Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Fixed crash on Replace Image Fixes for Drag Drop of Stock images Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Command Controller positioning improvements Fixes for Display Scale Zoomed Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Status bar layout / clipping fixes Document grid fixes Context menu fixes Fixed assigning shortcuts from a keyboard cover Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names Unable to open Guide or Grid settings after dismissing by tapping the canvas Help and Localisation updates. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo 2 for iPad, version 2.0.3 (note this 2.0.3 build calls itself 2.0.3.320 in Preferences, but is nevertheless 2.0.3 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build (since the last release 2.0.2) The fixes and improvements in Affinity Photo for iPadOS 2.0.3 are as follows: Trash added bottom left for quick delete (command controller toggle now moved to burger menu). Clearer drop zone indication for dropping layers inside New document and open buttons on Home Screen now expand additional options by default (without needing to swipe down) to make them more easily discoverable Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Histogram not showing on Adjustments Update for HEIF importer Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Normals Adjustment crashes on German language Export Panel UI fixes Command Controller position should persist across documents and sessions Pen tool tweaks and fixes Tweaks to fix some spurious behaviour on interaction with Apple Autocorrect Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Fixed crash on Replace Image Fixes for Drag Drop of Stock images Command Controller positioning improvements Fixes for Display Scale Zoomed Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Status bar layout / clipping fixes Document grid fixes Context menu fixes Fixed assigning shortcuts from a keyboard cover Unable to open Guide or Grid settings after dismissing by tapping the canvas Fixed Curves Adjustment 'Input minimum'/'Input maximum' controls being (initially) incorrectly enabled and usable Fixed Curves adjustment settings panel 'Colour Space' picker being blank when colour space is RGBU Fixed XMP sidecar import Fixed exclusion blend mode in 16bit RGB Fixed outline later effect RAW loading speed improvements Assorted assets panel fixes Assorted other fixes Localisation updates Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

Affinity Photo in iOS and Affinity Designer on iOS have had an additional minor update from 1.10.6 to 1.10.7 because the "My Account" option was non-functional in many locales, which has now been resolved. 09/12/22 Note: Affinity Designer for iPad displays this 1.10.7 build as 1.10.24 and Affinity Photo for iPad displays this 1.10.7 build as 1.10.7.317

We are pleased to announce version 1.10.6/7/8 updates for the Affinity Suite on all platforms. Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher (on macOS, Windows, and iOS) had all recently been affected by recent operating system releases such as the launch of macOS Ventura, iOS 16 and Windows 10 and 11 updates. We have mitigated some of these in the 1.10.6 patches of all applications on all platforms. The changes fix/avoid the problems introduced by operating system changes thus returning earlier functionality. If you are using Windows 10 or 11, macOS Ventura (13.x) or iOS 16 then we recommend installing these updates. Other supported operating systems can install the update without issue, but they have no specific advantages/fixes over 1.10.5 for your OS. If you are on macOS Sonoma, the the 1.10.8 patch has a specific fix we would recommend you get 1.10.8 (on macOS only) is a single fix patch to address this Light UI issue on Sonoma UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (for existing V1 customers) Updates on macOS for Affinity Store Purchases The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, for example Affinity Photo > About...). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively the full Affinity Store installers are also available here: Affinity Photo on macOS: All Affinity Store builds of Affinity Photo for macOS can be downloaded from this link Affinity Designer on macOS: All Affinity Store builds of Affinity Designer for macOS can be downloaded from this link Affinity Publisher on macOS: All Affinity Store builds of Affinity Publisher for macOS can be downloaded from this link ========================================================================= Updates on macOS through the Mac App Store The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu for example, Affinity Photo > About...). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. ========================================================================= Updates on Windows for Affinity Store Purchases The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (for example in Help > About...). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively the full Affinity Store installers are also available here: Affinity Photo on Windows: All Affinity Store builds of Affinity Photo for Windows can be downloaded from this link Affinity Designer on Windows: All previous builds of Affinity Designer for Windows can be downloaded from this link Affinity Publisher on Windows: All previous builds of Affinity Publisher for Windows can be downloaded from this link ========================================================================= Updates on Windows through the Microsoft Store The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (for example in Help > About...). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show. ========================================================================= Updates on iPads The software version can be seen on the corner of Preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours. =========================================================================

Hi All, Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2! This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally... Updates to V2 moving forward Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated. It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive. Updates to V1 moving forward While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone. Offer period In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. Upgrade pricing It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about. I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example. The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales. Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can. A comment on no subscription I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version. We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems. All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year! All the best, Ash This is a duplicate post of a thread that is now locked and moved to the questions forum

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer 2 for iPad, version 2.0.2 (note this 2.0.2 build calls itself 2.0.2.2 in Preferences, but is nevertheless 2.0.2 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPadOS 2.0.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fix inability to open a non-affinity file, save from home screen swipe, close, then open again. Reinstated burger menu in the document viewer. Removed Save/Save menu items As from within the document. Saving a unsaved document will now bring up the Save dialog to ask where to save it. You can now slide up on the 'cancel/deselect' button at the lower left corner to activate 'Delete' functionality. UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo 2 for iPad, version 2.0.2 (note this 2.0.2 build calls itself 2.0.2.312 in Preferences, but is nevertheless 2.0.2 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPadOS 2.0.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fix inability to open a non-affinity file, save from home screen swipe, close, then open again. Reinstated burger menu in the document viewer. Removed Save/Save menu items As from within the document. Saving a unsaved document will now bring up the Save dialog to ask where to save it. UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen in the bottom left the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.