Bas van Dongen Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 The color picker tool does not work outside the Affinity window. The tool will then turn pink or purple.Within Affinity the tool works fine. I work with the IOS version of Affinity Designer. What's going wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Welcome to the forums @Bas van Dongen You have posted this in a macOS section of the forums but you say you are using iOS. If you really are using iOS then a moderator may move this thread for you so it’s in the right place and can be seen by the right people. Note: The problem may be something to do with the OS not allowing the application to record the screen but I don’t use macOS or iOS so I can’t help you find the necessary setting(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 9 hours ago, GarryP said: but you say you are using iOS. If you really are using iOS Technically, on an iPad we use iPadOS, not iOS (which I think is just for iPhones). On my iPad, I cannot get either the Color Picker or the Color Sampler to operate outside the application window. On macOS, if you try to sample outside the application window, you are prompted to allow screen recording. If you deny that permission, you pick from the desktop wallpaper (based on a recent other topic). GarryP 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted December 2, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2022 @Bas van DongenWelcome to the forums. I don't believe the Colour Picker/Sampler within our app is designed to sample from outside the app window. That being said I don't think iPadOS has this feature available, I've tested some other similar apps that have colour pickers and they are also limited to just the apps window. If the option becomes available within iPadOS, it's a feature you can request our developers add in a future update. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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