iOS 18 Photos Text Color Issue

Nov 26, 2024 9:21 PM in response to ImagineHobbes

This helped me, but it’s still aggravating the amount of additional steps one must take to get this to function that way it should work without jumping through extra hoops, especially on a brand new phone. I was hoping after I was able to get it done once, that it would work as intended afterwards, but it doesn’t. Each new image you have to try and select the font, attempt to change the color, reselect the font again, then go through the Aa area again and pick the color you want. It unselects the font again lot though so it takes a few tries to get it how you want it.

Now if I could get my stickers to work, I’d really be happy. I’m so disappointed this hasn’t been fixed yet. It will do a similar thing to the font color of trying to pull up a sticker and will disappear in about 1/2 seconds.

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Nov 28, 2024 4:58 AM in response to Seracious

How long is it going to take before Apple fixes this issue? It’s been over a month now and the last iOS update did nothing about it.

HEY APPLE!!! DO YOU HEAR US?

They had better hope Elon Musk doesn’t come out with a competing device.

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faholmes

Level 1

42 points

Nov 28, 2024 6:56 PM in response to Seracious

AGREE!!! Quite frustrating. Pls add me to the list of users who EAGERLY AWAIT THE FIX FOR THIS. None of the "fixes" below seem to work. The lovely screenshot doesn't work because the text color icon immediately closes.

TY for your clear statement of the problem!

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Dec 2, 2024 12:03 PM in response to Seracious

Same here. Last week was able to change text color just fine now I can’t get anything but black. I am using an iPhone SE.

Im trying to sell some items online and I need to add descriptions to the photos which have a black background. I’m dead in the water !

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cymrug

Level 1

14 points

Dec 3, 2024 8:09 AM in response to Seracious

What's on my mind is why have Apple not heard the phrase "if it's not broken, don't fix it!" This bug whereby the text colour in photo annotation cannot be changed is inexcusable. I use it a lot, please fix asap, preferably by yesterday.

Don't you put beta versions out for testing?

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Jonkeau

Level 1

26 points

Dec 3, 2024 11:49 AM in response to Seracious

So, weird thing, apparently on my phone this glitch may be tied to having the highlighter tool selected before I create the text box and try to change the color? I selected the eraser tool and suddenly now I can change the color… still buggy though, the menu doesn’t come back up at the bottom once I tap off the text most of the time…

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Dec 3, 2024 12:42 PM in response to Seracious

As a few others have stated - once you enter markup you need to have the eraser selected not the highlighter and you are then able to change the text colour. I was able to such change the text from black to another chosen colour in my photos. Hope this is just a glitch and Apple will rectify this change to markup.

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