[1.8.6] Support for iPadOS 14 Scribble not working?

[R C-R]

Maybe I have something set incorrectly or I do not understand how to use this new feature but I cannot get the iPadOS 14 Scribble feature in either of the new 1.8.6 versions of Designer or Photo to work. At best, I can get the little Apple Pencil in a circle icon to appear, to tap on it to get other options like the small floating keyboard to appear, but in neither Art nor Frame text boxes does scribbling with the Apple Pencil do anything other than with Art text try to change the font size -- IOW, no scribbles appear at all.

The one place it does work in the Affinity apps is renaming an open document after tapping on the home screen burger menu to open the rename screen with the 'Please enter the new name' text & the text field below that. But with a document actually open for editing it does not work as I would expect it to in any text box.

I have a non-pro 9.7" (6th generation) iPad, the one Apple designates as order number "MRJN2LL/A (32 GB Gold)" paired with a first generation Apple Pencil.

In Settings > Apple Pencil > "Try Scribble" everything works. All Scribble features also work in Apple apps like Mail & 3rd party ones like Vectornator X for iPad, so this seems limited to the two Affinity iPad apps.

[R C-R]

I forgot to add that I tried this both with iPadOS 14 & then with the 14.0.1 version I just installed on my iPad, & after quitting & relaunching each of the two apps on my iPad.

[ronnyb]

Same issue here. I select the Art Text tool, drag out the size of the font I want, and once I attempt writing anything, it simply places another resizable A on the screen. I’m using the latest version of the app released today

[R C-R]

13 minutes ago, ronnyb said:

Same issue here. I select the Art Text tool, drag out the size of the font I want, and once I try to attempt writing anything, it simply places another resizable A on the screen.

Your sig says you have a 2018 11" iPad Pro. Am I correct in assuming that means you are using a second generation Apple Pencil with it, the one that pairs & charges wirelessly?

[AlainP]

Scribble does not work on my 2020 iPad Pro neither on my 9,7 inch gen 6. for text input. Both have the latest OS.

May be what they meant by "Support for iOS 14 Scribble" is that it does not cause any bug like the previous version (or the current beta), but the "real Scribble" function does not work for text input of any kind. 

We're one step closer.....

[ronnyb]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

Your sig says you have a 2018 11" iPad Pro. Am I correct in assuming that means you are using a second generation Apple Pencil with it, the one that pairs & charges wirelessly?

Exactly 

[DM1]

Not working for me in eithe photo or designer. Seems to make using pencil to change tools etc a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it wants to scribble (with no result) other times it will action the tapped menu. Have to turn offf Scribble in settings to make affinity workable.

[Chris B]

I will get this logged. I'm seeing two different behaviours for 1.8.6 and 1.9 with the Art text. 

[wtrmlnjuc]

Has not been working with a first gen Apple Pencil either. iPad Pro 12.9" (2015).

[GiangCao]

I think it's a problem form Apple and not Affinity. I have problems with Scribble as I renamed files in the native iPad Files app  and had to turn off scribble to be able to do it

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, GiangCao said:

I think it's a problem form Apple and not Affinity. I have problems with Scribble as I renamed files in the native iPad Files app  and had to turn off scribble to be able to do it

For me, Scribble works fine in the Files app, & as I mentioned in other apps as well.

[ytorf]

Same problem for me. Can't get Scribble to work on 2020 iPad Pro or my friend's first gen iPad Pro. Scribble works fine in Notes on both devices.

[DM1]

I think it was previously mentioned that Scribble  works for naming files and or layers but not for any tools like artistic text. 

[JQL]

It does not work on the M1 iPad with 2nd Gen Pencil either. It's actually very messy and a bit of a workflow breaker. Each time we try writing with the pencil it creates a new text item instead.