After upgrading to ios 17, several settings have changed that I no longer seem to be correct. Selecting text in Page used to show in a soft blue. Now everything is in this ugly orange. I can find all sorts of tutorials on how to change the highlight color, but nothing on where I can select colors to customize Pages. I really, really hate the orange. Any help appreciaed.
iPad mini 4
Hey TomHayes1.
I had the same problem. This worked for me: Open the pages document on your MAC if you have one. I now had the doc open on both devices. (don't know if that made a difference). On the Mac, Select "view", "comments and changes", "author color." The color that was selected was the new color that I didn't want. I changed the color. Then I tried highlighting again on my iPad and voila! iPad now highlighted in my selected color again. Hope this helps.
iPadOS 17 and Pages v13.2 are a different implementation of both from macOS Sonoma and Pages v13.2 on the Mac. The latter give you some leeway in customization from the appearances panel, but there is no accent or highlight color settings panel in iPadOS. There are no controls in the iOS/iPadOS 17 Pages application that give you other color choices.
Yesterday, I spent an hour looking for a way to change the selection color from yellow to a different color in Pages 13.2 on iOS 17.1.1. and found nothing.
Unless I am misunderstanding that you want to actually apply a highlight color to selected text. In that case, see the following section in Change the look of text in Pages on iPad - Apple Support
What seems to have worked for me, after searching for some time....is going this route...Systems..APPEARANCE, then making changes. Different than on my mini.
Well, so much for ios 17 making my ipad customizable and versatile! Is there no way then to get my blue selected text back? The orange is truly awful. Why change something like that arbitrarily, Apple? Totally unnecessary and once again you take my choice away without recourse. I swear, it's enough to make me go Android.
I have only seen yellow decoration with Pages for iOS/iPadOS on iOS 15, 16, and 17 across different versions of Pages for these platforms. Just checked again on iPadOS 16.7.2 and Pages v13.1 has no color change from sickly yellow color theme.
Not sure hat to tell you, Viking. Two days ago when I selected text in Pages on my iPad it highlighted in a soft blue. After going to 17.1 it's an ugly orange. I'm not making it up. I didn't change it, and I'm ****** that I can't change it back. I just want to know if therte's a way to customize the highlight colors in Pages. It seems like a fairly easy thing to do; I just can't find the control panel to do it.
I sure don't want to argue whether or not I'm seeing what I'm seeing.
No, you didn't misunderstand. I know how to highlight text, and how to change thge highlight color. This is a temporary thing that shows me which text I've selected, to copy or cut or move, whatever. It's a very minor thing that in no way affects the functionality of Pages. I simply liked blue better and wanted to switch it back if possible.
My last post was just in case… but I believed what you wanted was to just change the selection color from dreadful yellow to blue. I have no answer for that change on iOS/iPadOS.
You are seeing exactly what I see and I don't like it either. Who the heck decided that we all needed to use orange? This is so frustrating.
ios 17 ipad color schemes in Pages?
