Can no longer change text color in markup in Photos app on iPhone

When I press the color dot it won’t stay open long enough for me to select the color! This is happened after 18.1 Glitch?!

Exactly the same here. It occurs when I choose to add text to a photo and select the color. It shuts off every time I select the color tool.

They put fancy stuff in updates (e.g. animated emojis for text) and then regular tools don’t work.

I was so disappointed when I couldn’t change my font or color in the mark up feature! I hope Apple fixes this! that was my favorite feature as I do my editing of pictures on my phone!

I have the same problem! Very frustrating! Please fix ASAP ! Thank you

This post from Reddit helped me if anyone stumbles upon this issue:

Tap the text to edit the actual text, like as in you’re able to change what the text says. Tap the text again, select it, once selected you’ll get the standard options to cut, paste etc; hit the little arrow, tap “format”, then hit more, the formatting options will appear, you’ll notice the text should be highlighted still, open the color options like you normally would, tap the color that you want (I think it can be any color but might as well hit what you want I guess), then you’ll notice your text is no longer highlighted, without closing the formatting options, tap your text again, hit the Aa icon, tap the color options for the text, and then it shouldn’t close out on you.

Same problem here. Very frustrating. I upgraded to 16 Pro Max for what???

Wtaf Apple. This is terrible. The text format color chooser just appears for a fraction of a second and disappears. Not only that, but when you try to select text, it gets covered by the suggestion bar and you can’t see what you’re typing. Did you even test this before cramming it into our phones?

Yes it happened after I updated to 18.0.1 and now 18.1 still has not fixed it. I used it regularly to change the text colour I add to photos so this is super annoying as I cannot add text to dark photos at all.

Mine is same way. The text edit function on mark up on Photos doesn't work like it used to. Doesn't stay long enough for you to change the color of the text or adjust the size.

Thank you, but the problem is that it does not work for me and other users who do the exact thing you are showing us. Thanks for the image though.

It’s frustrating to say the least. Also why did they remove the magnifying option that allows a portion of a photo to be zoomed in on? That was another feature that has vanished with recent updates.

Report it here so they actually have someone on that team read about the problem. I just reported almost the same issue.

Feedback - Photos - Apple

That really works. Thanks for sharing.

So I discovered that when you hit the “+” to add text, then hit the “Aa”, that’s when you can select the color.

Trying to upload a screenshot…but it’s easy.

Git same problem and workaround given here doesnt work. Please fix