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Affinity Designer for iPad is an awesome program, but because of some of the defaults, it doesn't put its best foot forward for new users with the Apple Pencil. This thread is meant to share fixes and workarounds I have discovered as I've learned to use AD with the Pencil. I will add posts below with screenshots to suggest certain configuration settings that prevent problems. I fixed my worst AD nightmares with the configuration settings. But there were a couple of other problems I encountered early and often which I will try to describe here. PROBLEM: When I open the "..." menu by mistake, when I close it, I lose my current selection! SOLUTION: Yes, anything you do "off menu" gets treated as something besides just trying to get rid of the menu, so the solution to this one is: When you realize you've opened the "..." menu by mistake, click on the currently selected Fill Mode (Alternating or Winding, whichever one is currently highlighted). That's treated as an attempt to change it to what is already is, and will close the menu without clearing your selection. Selections can be super-easy to make by dragging around until the right objects are enclosed; but they can be super-painful to make if you're just selecting certain objects nested within others. AD is pretty cavalier about clearing the selections you might have struggled to make, but at least you can find workarounds like this one or use the UNDO system to restore your selections. PROBLEM: When editing in close quarters, the Node tool keeps switching to other objects, maybe messing up things I was finished with, rather than selecting the nodes I'm trying to tap! SOLUTION: There's no way to change the Node tool's behavior, but you can use layers to organize your document, and on the Layers Studio's menu, uncheck "Edit All Layers." This way you can make sure the objects you're working on are on layers separate from "finished" objects. As long as you have the right layer selected, the Node tool won't be able to mess with finished objects.