Ipad os 17 pdf editor is horrible. I have hundreds of pdf files, and for some reasons for all of them it created an additional layer with absolutely the same markups. But the worst thing is that I cannot even erase the markups which were previously done. When using an eraser tool, they just become faded.
How I am supposed to work with hundreds of my work files now?? It worked normally in iPad is 16.
iPad Pro (5th generation)
this happens all the time. FIX IT NOW APPLE!!!!
While annotating with the Apple Pencil , the document will crash and reopen, with ALL of the prior annotations missing. The pen will then start in black until it “remembers” that a color was selected and switch back to that on the fly. I cannot erase prior annotations anymore. Documents sometimes seem to have saved correctly but then annotations are missing. Frustrating.
Wow! This is so terrible! I utilize this function to fill in contracts and have people sign contracts and work orders. How am I supposed to work now?
I guess it’s back to the Stone Age and start using paper and pencil again!
I wonder if we can revert back to iOS 16 and the problem will be fixed?
I have all the issues noted above. And sometimes while marking with the pencil, the Markup ‘panics’ and just refreshes and all my edits to that point are lost with no way to recover. This is within a single edit session.
Apple completely broke my workflow with this. I’m a teacher and use markup on PDFs in my classroom live for students to follow. I’ve had to abandon Markup and go with the uPDF app, which is fine, but has creates other issues (not autosync’d to iCloud and no ‘pencil preview marker’ on screen. So sad this is completely broken.
Another thing is while anotating pdfs in Books. After few pages anotated the document just stucks and I have to restart iPad. Pretty much the only solution is switching anotation tool constantly on and off and getting out and reopening the document to be sure for saved progress. (Kinda hope it will take less than two years which took to fix the new voice recorder app.)
I have similar problems, I work with vectorial drawing in pdf, the files just take very long to load, sometimes I cannot scrool and I can´t write anything with the pen, or if i try to sketch anything the lines take a few seconds to apear!! IOS17 doesn´t work for PDF, it was so good on the IOS16 why change??
One more issue is the erase width, it used to be dynamic depending on the pencil inclination, this feature is not working anymore and you have to choose the width from the eraser tool.
I bought an ipad air for the only purpose of correcting construction drawings, doesn't make sense working on it when I keep on losing information and files, deleting hours of work sometimes. This is super frustrating and an urgent fix is needed, or accept ipad returns!
YEP! Apple please fix! This is an essential feature of having a tablet and pencil/stylus and it is utterly unreliable in the new OS. Appreciate anyone seeing this and taking action, really need this solved! Thanks a bunch.
I use Apple’s built-in PDF editing on a regular basis to fill out important forms for insurance. I should say I did until they turned into a broken mess with the release of 17. Unbelievable that this hasn’t been fixed yet.
Totally agree and totally frustrated, not sure why more aren’t sharing their negative experience since the release of 17. I’ve spent my last 2 days in total frustration as my contract negotiations require revisions, the first time around it’s business as usual (most of the time… with the odd glitch) but I’m suspecting the way the versions are being tracked and able to be recalled(new feature I think) is possibly causing the glitching….. I’ve had to resort to outsourcing the work til a fix is made…. Please apple can you do something, I’d rather spend my dollar on your products which had served me faithfully, than pay adobe or someone else to sort this. I know you can coz my daughter’s MacBook pdf editor can still do it???? Or is that the catch…. But I need to use my pen too… Please help
For my Italian course I dowloaded all the PDF material and then I make annotations of each class in the corresponding document. This is the first time a PDF turns black and white, loses all the images that originally were on the document, and part of the annotations I made on the first pages are gone, also on the pages were the annotations are gone, there is a blue square with no fill that can be selected, and the only option available for it is Delete, I'm also able to move it, like if it was an image. This is frustrating, please fix it, otherwise it's definitely much better keep using real paper. https://youtu.be/F1hsRtCkg_g
FYI Still broken in iPadOS 17.0.1
FYI - I just installed 17.0.3 and I still experience the same set of problems.
Apple really need to sort this! Every time I zoom into a PDF it crashes as soon as I try to annotate it.
I’m having the same issues. Even more, the tags of the *.pdf files appear and disappear randomly. Files in iOS 17 is terrible
I don’t understand how a feature so big can be so broken for so long with no peep of fixing.
Since working with PDF was one of the new flag improvements for IOS 17, I still having a dificult time to accept so many things wrong!
iPadOS 17 pdf editing is broken
