I just reported an issue to Apple but maybe you have the same problem and found some workaround?
Editing texts with the native photo app is buggy since 18.0. I use an iPhone 13 with iOS 18.0.1 and can’t change the text style and text color anymore since the dialogue just closes or moves to an outer position where you can’t select anything. Some ideas?
iPhone 13, iOS 18
Other people have reported this, but it seems to work for me. I don't use Markup much, so I'm a bit of a novice. But I tried it on my phone: I chose Text, deleted the word Text, typed "Balloon" in default black, selected the text, and chose Format>More (...) from the pop up menu. I switched to red, and the it seemed to work for me:
I admit that I tried changing the color in the original drawing window, and it didn't work. But then I found (...) Format in the Pop up.
Do you do anything different? If I (or Apple) can't reproduce the effect, it's going to be tough to fix. I wonder why it works for me and not for you and some others…
Same. iPhone 13 PM.
Photo text editing is not working as expected. Changing colors, size and fonts are problematic…
iOS 18 Edit photos text color and style buggy
