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For me, I get the same result as you if I press somewhere on the artboard after adding an effect, but I keep the effect if I select another tool instead.

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Can you share a sample .afdesign document, containing at least that set of layers you're trying to apply the effects to?

-- Walt
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Hi @Brett Stebbins,
From my investigation the issue is caused by touching the screen after applying an effect which has certain attributes - like Radius for example: when you touch the screen after applying the effect the Radius gets set to zero and thus the effect is not visible on screen anymore. The only "workaround" if we can call it as such is setting the Radius value again to what is was originally. I'm checking all the FX/attributes and will have this logged very soon.
This can be easily recreated in a new file it's not limited to complex documents. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.

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So that you are aware. Because I’ve had this issue for some time now. I have experimented. I will apply an inner glow, for example, and then click on the canvas. Or I will apply it but this time click on a layer in the layers palette, or I might click away onto another FX. Or I might click on another tool. I tried many different variations of getting the FX to apply itself, but in every case it would revert back. BTW, this problem would not show up at first, when I started working on a file, but at some point later it would show up and once it did, I couldn’t get whatever layer FX to work again. Also, another note, I noticed that Gaussian blur never had this issue. I have not experimented with all the layer FX to see which ones have the issue and which ones don’t since I primarily only use certain ones. This problem also shows up in Affinity Photo.

Brett Stebbins

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18 minutes ago, Brett Stebbins said:

Or I might click on another tool

For me, clicking on the Move Tool works. The sliders are removed, and the effect is applied/committed.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4

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@MEB I just updated to v2.4.1 today. I was hoping this issue with layer effects would have been resolved by now but the bug still persists. I am having similar problems with filters too. This has such a huge crippling effect on my ability to use Affinity. There has been at least two or three updates to Affinity Designer since this post back in December. When will this issue be resolved on the iPad Pro? Am I the only one experiencing this?

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  • 1 year later...
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I had reached out in 2023 about this issue of effects and filters not reverting after being applied. I still have this issue and it is now 2025. I sent @MEB a file in which he was able to reproduce the issue. Please see all previous posts in this thread for further details. The bug still exists. Attached is another video showing me adding inner glow, adjusting the color and then clicking to another tool and the color reverts back to white.
 

V2.6.3 on the iPad Pro.

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What is a bummer is this issue, which is not small, has been going on since 2023. I pretty much only use Affinity Designer on the iPad Pro. I have to constantly find work arounds. Having effects and filters not work is a big deal, not a small bug. I really hope that this is accelerated. And if this bug is fixed, how will I know what update is fixing this issue so that I know to look for it?

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