Markup issue/bug IOS 18.0 photo editor

This has happened to me as well on my 14 Plus, so I’m glad I’m not the only one this is happening to. I’ve also had issues where I try to open the tool bar for both text and shapes to change the color, line width, etc. and it doesn’t open at all, or opens for a nano second and closes right away. Additionally, after I change the end shape of the arrow and hit done, it takes me fully out of markup and I have to go back in.

Just went to mark up one of my photos for the first time post iOS 18.0.1 and this same thing is happening on my iphone 14! It's so frustrating! I'm glad to know it's not just me so hopefully this gets fixed soon.

I faced the same issue on iPhone 16 pro, IOS18.0.1

Exact same for me. Text color change is broke. Please fix it apple.

Same with me, iPhone 13, iOS 18.0.1

there’s a bug in editing photos within choosing colour of any object or text.

@apple please fix this

I have a 15 Pro Max and ever since the iOS 18 update, when I go to add text to a photo, I can’t even find the option at all to add the text. I can’t find the markup option anywhere! I have watched a tutorial on YouTube thinking that I may be missing it somewhere, but where it is supposed to be located at the top right corner instead of the little marker icon, it has a little timer instead. I’ve clicked on so many things, and I just cannot find it. So if anyone can help with this problem, I would truly appreciate it. The earlier iOS version were so much easier than this one, but I do like the other a lot of the other features that iOS 18 has though. I wish that they would give tutorials along with the updates, especially when they have changed so much and rearranged a lot of things on this particular update. Smh 🤦‍♀️

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.

Unfortunately my issues didn’t clear up with the IOS 18.0.1 update. Markup is still a hot mess on my 14 Plus phone.

Well, I confirmed last night that it is not a phone issue - at least for me. I erased all data from my iPhone 12 Pro after transferring over to my 16 Pro, so it was no longer tied to any Apple account or an iCloud when I took a picture to test. Markup worked just fine. When just the day before yesterday when my 12 Pro was my only phone, I was having issues with markup.