iOS photo markup tools - text color

I want to alter the colour of markup text.

When editing a photo on iOS you can use the markup tools to add text. Previously one could change the colour of that text. Now (iOS 17.1.2)(dec 2023) the option to alter the colour of the added text seems to have been removed. The only [apparent] alternatives given are size, alignment, font and style (bold, italic, underlined, strike through).


Has altering the colour of markup text been revoked, or moved to some secret unintuitive place?


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iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 5, 2023 03:09 AM

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Posted on Dec 5, 2023 03:31 AM

Found it. Apparently they’ve moved it to the right of the other alternatives. It’s a round circle with the current text color. Which is impossible to see if you have dark theme on, as it defaults to the black text colour. Impressive Apple. 👏👏

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Dec 7, 2023 10:40 PM in response to Niklas_K

Yes the colour button can be used to change the text colour and all is fine IF one actually TYPES the text


BUT


one can no longer PASTE text and change the colour. It stays the default black!


Somehow, when I keep trying, after the 10th-15th attempt, the colour MAY change... I have not been able to determine what the actual action had been that yielded the desired effect! I give up most of the time. Such a frustration!


Why did they remove the option?


Is there a way?

Dec 8, 2023 12:20 AM in response to jo959

Changing colour on pasted text worked for me every time I tried it. However there seems to be all kind of weird stuff going on with the markup feature for text.


For changing the colour of the pasted text, try with leaving the markup mode (selecting done) and then go back into markup mode and select your textbox, then try to change the text colour.


Other weird stuff:


The alignment feature works. Sometimes.

If one tries to change the alignment on existing textboxes, the four options will only result in two, left or right. Everything other than right gets left aligned. (See pic, all textboxes are lined up against the red line.)


However, if you chose justified alignment for a textbox and then add a new textbox, the new box will be aligned justified. But don’t touch the alignment settings for the new textbox as it will revert back to either left or right alignment if you do.


Also, regarding pasting text into a textbox. I somehow managed to get part of the text bold and part of it not bold by pasting non bold text into a textbox with bold text. See pic with the green text and the three zip zip zip. I pasted “zip” into the textbox three times. I didn’t manage to recreate the different formats for parts of the text in one textbox in any other textbox though.


The updated markup feature is a bit buggy to say the least.




Apr 26, 2024 04:04 AM in response to jo959

Silly Apple… It is there still and there is a person who found the answer above and we should all thank him. Clearly Apple missed the whole contrast thing and made us all waste so much time trying to figure it out as usual. I’m sure they will fix it next release again but knowing them will probably break something else useful instead lol. The latest update, they screwed up, now it seems the colour choosing selector for text, starts as black by default, so you can’t even see the round circle selector (it’s bottom right) allowing you to change colour. If I remember in the past the colour selector circle was usually white, so we could easily notice it.

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