Markup issue/bug IOS 18.0 photo editor

This appears to be resolved with the release of 18.2 today (12/11/2024). Have tested multiple times and am able to adjust color on shapes, arrows, text, etc.

I was able to receive Apple support from their Photos team this morning. Kudos to the gentleman who observed my issue with markup in Photos and in Notes, and did his very best to document and locate their internal bug record. I’ll give Apple credit. Their support team and debugging tools are exceptional.

While this is not the final solution, I decided to accept his recommendation to Reset All Settings, as there were historical entries in this bug report highlighting it solved the problem. And it did!

My markup tools are displaying, working and no longer are apps freezing/crashing when I try to markup a photo or note.

Caution: If you reset your settings, you will need to recreate your Home Screen, re-add all of your cards into Wallet, and set any special notifications or sounds.

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.

iOS 18.2 resolved the issue for me, which was released a week ago. Have you tried updating your iOS?

I posted here a long time ago with the same issue. I have an iPhone 12 Pro. It only took Apple about SIX MONTHS (sarcasm), but it’s finally resolved for me, with the 18.3 update. F’ing finally!

I’ve been having the same exact issues since iOS 18 in September and even still, after the update to 18.1.1 recently in November. I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro. I use(d) this tool very regularly, so it has been a huge frustration for months. I’m submitting a bug ticket, and I encourage others to do the same.

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I was having the same issue and gave up with Apple… I found a third party application which works better than Apples photo mark up tool… https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phonto-text-on-photos/id438429273

It’s partially fixed in iOS

18.2 but it still glitches out after two or three edits of text in one photo.

and I cannot get the fill /no fill working on shapes. Also sometimes I’ll save after a text edit and the location of the text changes after saving.

I got on the phone tonight with a senior support guy for photos who helped me with adding shapes & borders and fills.

Towards the end of the call, every time I selected the shape, then tapped the color circle far left on the shape editing bar, the master editing bar (with the pens) at the bottom appeared, then quickly disappeared. Meanwhile I couldn’t change the color.

He saw it and was not happy. Suggested I restart my phone but did not agree on full reset. Said he’d forward the bug report.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW FOR PHOTOS ON THE APPS APP.

As someone suggested, we should all send Apple feedback (I forgot where to do that), call Apple support, and post the problem on social media. Another thing to do is:

On your phone’s APPS app, leave a ONE-star review for the Apple Photos app. The review for the past few months are horrendous, but it will take a lot of review to help bring down the average Star rating and make Apple notice.

its gotten worse for me. Just tapping the text editing bar a few times now it closes the editing bar.

Everyone needs to go to apple feedback for iOS photos and file a bug report.

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.

Hello from Catalonia! I have an iPhone 15 updated to iOS 18.1.1 and I have also the same problem with changing colour in adding text in Photo App. I did it millions of times before with previous iOS versions and it worked perfectly.

Please Apple fix it as soon as possible!!! I need it to watermark for free my identification card. I’ve tried other Apps to watermark but they are very complicated and they are pay versions.

So this markup problem only “caught up” with me in the last couple of days. And just as I was getting more comfortable with using markup after the update over the summer that made it more difficult to use. I looked for, and loaded the latest update (18.2.1), which didn’t do a **** thing to help with markup. Apple’s slowness to correct this is really bad. Are they afraid of the meme content that users create?