iOS 18 Photos Text Color Issue

I can no longer change text color in markup in Photos app on iPhone. It’s was working fine but all of a sudden it stopped working! I’ve shut it down several times hoping it would correct itself but you go to the text box… I hit bold and italic... select point size then I go to the dot that’s black and I wanna make it white and it comes on for an “instant” but immediately disappears before I can even touch the color …it goes away. What’s up with that and how soon can it be fixed because it was working earlier this evening? I am in iOS 18 and I really do not like it! So many changes …not for the better that I can tell.

Surely Apple would have checked that the text colour could be changed before releasing ios18? Plus the ability to select a default text colour (eg white instead of black) would be very helpful. Very disappointed this glitch has not been quickly resolved

Same here!!! I use this tool for my business instagram posts and only having black as text colour doesn’t cut it!!!! These upgrades are driving me mad - things are good and then they mess with it and there is no one to talk to. The duo-language keyboard is another totally unnecessary change. Instead of trying to correct spelling in one language, it uses both languages to autocorrect when I only typing in one….

“So I discovered that when you hit the “+” to add text, then hit the “Aa”, that’s when you can select the color.”

This does not always work. After rebooting, it may be yes, but only the first couple of times and only if you change the text color. But if you actively start using all the tools in a jumble, then the color selection window and the font selection window and the Aa button in general stop working (it all depends on how actively and diversely you use image markup)

Same problem here, color option window opens for a split second then closes not allowing you to change text color. Come on apple really? You do these updates to enhance features no one even cares about then create bugs for features that I use a a daily basis. What a joke.

Still an issue with 18.2 update. Grrr! It’s so frustrating. I cannot change text style, color or style. The box opens but when I try to change anything I click the size, style or color and it disappears and does not change.

updating my previous post. upgrading iOS to: regarding changing color of text in photo’s app

18.0 - stopped working

18.0.1 - worked

18.1 - didn’t work

18.2 - still hasn’t work (in photo’s app) (although, the only work around I found was, if you use notes app, take a pic in notes, adjusting the text color will work there… still doesn’t solve the problem. Only a work around)

İ just tried it, İ mean editing the photos with editing tools in photos. Didn’t work, the same problem.

But if you edit the photos in Notes, by importing them to Notes, it “ works”. You can change the letter colours as you wish!

OMG❗️ Wow That worked !! 🙏 ✔️

After you choose markup & then "+" "Text" ... tap the ERASER 😱 & the Color, Font, EVERYTHING is available to select & change wow ...

Just like it used to work !

Thanks !! omg can add white or yellow letters to dark photos again Yay 🙌 xx

Same with me! I use apple photo editor quite a bit to create art for my band, but now can’t use it anymore because I can’t change the font color at all. I was able to finally change the font itself but it took a while to figure it out. Definitely miss the editor before the 18 update, it’s a bit of a mess now and pretty much unusable. :(

It doesn’t work - that’s what people are saying and it’s the same for me!

when i go to select the colour, the colours disappear!

Apple have a lot to answer for it they’re updates cause glitches to other functions without them knowing!!!

Apple obviously haven’t sorted this as I’m having the same issue when attempting to change text colour. Looking at previous posts ^ this has been an issue for 4 months & nothing has been done!!! Atrocious

First of the advisor is not the problem. Apple itself is the problem. You Apple train and advise your support team always wrong and unreliable information. Almost every time I have to go on internet or look at Apple discussion treads and find the solution. And the solution for rebooting or reinstalling the new phone hardware almost never works. Stop giving your tech people this choice. The problem almost always relies in your very own software glitches.

So for this problem of text to change color.

I found that you can do the format by selecting the word and taping format.

But then later reading more I. Discussions I later found that you can hit markup and tape in the erase and then everything goes back to normal. So again. An Apple glitch. Very frustrating and disappointing a company so massive can’t share this information in all related issues. Because I learned that months ago from the treads that if you did this with the erase it would solve the problem. So again. Why did I contact three tech people and all them told me to reset my phone or do a hard reset. Lucky I don’t listen to this people and make it harder on myself to reprogram ever Back. I learned 10 years ago this resetting almost never works. Stop tell the people this.

Try “Photo Vault”, icon has a file folder with a key on it, not only can it securely save your photos and videos with a separate password protection or PIN number, you can do editing and markup inside the app in their built in editor, organize stuff into folders, transfer files over the WiFi to a computer through a browser on your computer, etc… there’s a free version with ads, ad free is a few bucks one time, then premium with cloud storage and a bunch of extra features is a monthly fee.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-photo-vault-pic-safe/id417571834

This is a user fo user forum, no one here can fix it ASAP.