Affinity Designer for macOS - 1.9.3

[Alverde]

On 4/13/2021 at 5:51 AM, Patrick Connor said:

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.3

The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows:

Fixes & Improvements:

• Resource Manager - memory leak fixed
• Fixed a performance regression
• Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel
• Help and Localisation improvements

The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer macOS update announcement 

 

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 and needs a product key).

 

I'm not seeing the option to update anywhere. I'm using Affinity Designer 1.8.3 which I bought from the Mac App Store within the last year and a half. There is no option to update it in the App Store, nor do I see an option in the application main menu to check for updates. When I go to the App Store, it just gives me the option to buy Designer again for $24.99. I have an up to date version of the iPad app and tried opening a project I was working on there on my iMac, but said I couldn't because my iMac version was too old. Please let me know if there is a fix for this beyond simply buying it again. 

[Old Bruce]

21 minutes ago, Alverde said:

I bought from the Mac App Store within the last year and a half. There is no option to update it in the App Store, nor do I see an option in the application main menu to check for updates. When I go to the App Store, it just gives me the option to buy Designer again

Are you using the same Apple ID as when you bought it? 

[Alverde]

33 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Are you using the same Apple ID as when you bought it? 

Yes. Same ID, same computer, same everything. 

[Old Bruce]

Just now, Alverde said:

Yes. Same ID, same computer, same everything. 

Is Designer in the Application folder on your iMac's drive or in a different folder or hard drive?

[Alverde]

It was in a different folder. I've been booting from an external hard drive, but the application was still being referenced from the internal hard drive. I copied it to the external I normally boot from these days and was able to update it. Thank you for your help!