iOS 18 Photos Text Color Issue

How long does it take a huge company to fix a minor problem?

Thank you. That worked for me!

Same issues here. Had a 12 Pro, updated to iOS 18, immediately noticed that changing text color in markup wouldn’t work, almost as if the color screen was force closing. It fixed itself for a couple days, then the same issue came back. My husband has a 14 Pro, my son has a 14, and their markup works just fine. I just upgraded to a 16 Pro since I was eligible for an upgrade and my 12 Pro became so laggy. I have the same issues with markup with my 16 Pro as I did with my 12 Pro, so it’s not a phone issue. The issue seems very user specific, but I do think it’s an issue with iCloud. I can save a photo to my files, open up the photo within the files app, and markup works just fine. It does not work through the photo app.

That’s exactly where it’s crashing. The window immediately drops after opening. Then it glitches out the other text editing boxes. Cant change color on the other options either.

not to piggyback on this topic; but I haven’t been able to get my text to be on top of other edits in a few months now. Anytime I use type in markup, it’s always on the bottom layer, which makes ZERO sense. Because text is 99% of the time on the top layer.

This post from Reddit helped me if anyone stumbles upon this issue:

Tap the text to edit the actual text, like as in you’re able to change what the text says. Tap the text again, select it, once selected you’ll get the standard options to cut, paste etc; hit the little arrow, tap “format”, then hit more, the formatting options will appear, you’ll notice the text should be highlighted still, open the color options like you normally would, tap the color that you want (I think it can be any color but might as well hit what you want I guess), then you’ll notice your text is no longer highlighted, without closing the formatting options, tap your text again, hit the Aa icon, tap the color options for the text, and then it shouldn’t close out on you.

Just noticed this same problem today. Have a very dark background image I need to put text over. The only color available is black and I cannot change it via any method. Can’t have black text over a dark image as it will just vanish.

I updated the iOS and now cannot change font or color in the mark up feature! I see this isn’t just one of MY favorite features, as this forum lists at least 198 others who edit their pictures on their phones and are now affected by this glitch. FIX THIS! Why offer updates that screw up existing feature? Also… why does auto correct replace a word ending in ‘s’ with the same word (singular), a SPACE and an ‘a’?!?!?!

****** off… since I updated my phone, there’s a lot of new features that I don’t like!

when I edit my photos, I can’t even change the color. This is ******* me off big-time. Why didn’t I have an expensive phone and you can’t use it?

Thank you! This finally worked, but what a LONG way around to get it to work. Per your instructions, everything worked as stated but I then I had to select the text then touch the "Aa" button that appears in the floating screen that has the trash can, etc., click the color dot and THAT changes the color to what you chose in the Format screen. I'm exhausted!

Developers: just let us change the color with the tool that first shows up to select what type of pen you want that has the color dot on the right! Press that, change color, press Aa, press the color dot and presto-chango. Then we (the users) won't have to go on a treasure hunt just to change text color!!

I wish I could say that your solution helped.

I saw another note yesterday in which a contributor noted that the problem had been fixed.

However when I tried to edit some photos for publication, I found the same persisting inability to alter the font color.

This is extremely challenging, and I am hopeful that APPLE will take note and address this.

Apple’s genius has provided us with so many capabilities on these phones that we formerly thought of as “optional” but now use as critical parts of our work, that when they do not function, it is a great hardship.

APPLE, ARE YOU LISTENING?

WORK AROUND…🤷‍♀️ but worked ..Choose a markup tool. Tap the pencil; change color, next draw something & save; go out revert to original; back in same photo & add text & change color worked ✌️💙

WORK AROUND…🤷‍♀️ but worked ..Choose a markup tool. Tap the pencil; change color, next draw something & save; go out revert to original; back in same photo & add text & change color worked ✌️💙

WORK AROUND…🤷‍♀️ but worked ..Choose a markup tool. Tap the pencil; change color, next draw something & save; go out revert to original; back in same photo & add text & change color worked ✌️💙

Go to Ecran Blue’s recommendation (below) to fix the mark-up problems (changing color, size, font) etc…that showed up after the new iOS 18 update. It is weird but the recommendation worked.

Step 1: when you go into markup, immediately click on the eraser icon, then click in the photo.

step 2: change the photo that you normally would before the update.

Just that simple step, fixes all the problems created by the new update.

Thanks Ecran Blue!!