Affinity Designer 2 for iPad - (2.0.4)

[Patrick Connor]

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

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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.

[Patrick Connor]

All Readers

This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement.

Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the V2 Bugs found on iPad section and questions about usage go in the iPad Questions forum.

[Dj Ozz G]

Pointless update - Fonts are still showing in Chinese language. Can Affinity finally address this? 

[Patrick Connor]

1 hour ago, Dj Ozz G said:

Can Affinity finally address this? 

Sorry you are disappointed. This 2.0.4 release was a fix mainly aimed at the problems introduced by 2.0.2 and 2.0.3. We are planning a much bigger update to the whole suite again soon with many more fixes. This is not yet one of the more than 50 fixes that are being worked on, but I have asked again for this to be prioritized.

[R C-R]

On 1/25/2023 at 11:14 AM, Patrick Connor said:

This should manually refresh the updates page.

FWIW, none of the methods to force the updates (for all 3 iPad apps) worked for me. What did (as it has done in the past) is to 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."

I hope this helps others having trouble if none of the other methods work...

[Patrick Connor]

11 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I hope this helps others having trouble if none of the other methods work...

Thanks I have incorporated your suggestion