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

Temporary solution. The text colour can be changed by clicking the text box and clicking the Aa icon; this does allow you to change the colour, but it is long winded 🤓👍🏻

This doesn’t work right now, hence the reason for the post. Go ahead and try it yourself!

Still doesn't work. Closes out and you have to start the process all over again. so sorry I invested in yet another iPhony

This worked for me…it isn’t easier though, it’s another step. Who makes these changes???? Do they actually use it? More things are being hidden and getting harder to find…this isn’t progress, it’s perturbation.

Thank you for this and yes that worked before the latest 18.1.1 update (or whatever the most recent on is). It's definitely not a user-doesn't-know-how issue but more of a glitch that just shuts off the option to choose. It's like if someone tells you how to send an email and explains you should select "compose" and when you do that the email system shuts down lol. Either way it's not a deal-breaker just nice to have when it was available and we get angry when something is available only to be gaslit by Apple at the next update. Ha.

Issue(s) with changing color w/ markup text block repeatedly encountered. Changing color of shapes worked once after adding shape but failed similarly as Text block trying to change/edit display features. Options move or blocked on screen and then disappear all together. Screen recording uploaded to DB

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Issue(s) with changing color w/ markup text block repeatedly encountered. Changing color of shapes worked once after adding shape but failed similarly as Text block trying to change/edit display features. Options move or blocked on screen and then disappear all together. Screen recording uploaded to DB. iP15 Pro iOS v18.1

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Just noticed this same problem today. Have a very dark background image I need to put text over. The only color available is black and I cannot change it via any method. Can’t have black text over a dark image as it will just vanish.

I figured out how to change the text color circle Tap!

1-Add text

2-Double tap to select all text

3-Format

4-More

5-Select the color circle

6-Tap the screen to leave the color selection screen. 

7-While the Format menu is showing, single tap the text you want to edit. The other text edit bubble will appear. 

8-Select Aa 

9-Select your color

Here is how to change text color —

1-Add text

2-Double tap to select all text

3-Format

4-More

5-Select the color circle

6-Tap the screen to leave the color selection screen. 

7-While the Format menu is showing, single tap the text you want to edit. The other text edit bubble will appear. 

8-Select Aa 

9-Select your color

I am having the same issue unfortunately. Trying to markup a photo from my daughter’s candlelight vigil, and spread fentanyl awareness. Black on black just won’t cut it. Any other photo apps that anyone knows of that I can use to add lettering (in color) ? Thanks for any feedback!

I updated the iOS and now cannot change font or color in the mark up feature! I see this isn’t just one of MY favorite features, as this forum lists at least 198 others who edit their pictures on their phones and are now affected by this glitch. FIX THIS! Why offer updates that screw up existing feature? Also… why does auto correct replace a word ending in ‘s’ with the same word (singular), a SPACE and an ‘a’?!?!?!

Work around, highlight text and format, provides option of choosing a different text but color change does not hold, lag in response or doesn’t update at all.

As others pointed out, this a a direct result of 18.1 and .1 did not resolve. PLEASE fix so edit of text can be directly on photo, just like it was. Needed for watermarking photos, asap. Thanks

This helped me, but it’s still aggravating the amount of additional steps one must take to get this to function that way it should work without jumping through extra hoops, especially on a brand new phone. I was hoping after I was able to get it done once, that it would work as intended afterwards, but it doesn’t. Each new image you have to try and select the font, attempt to change the color, reselect the font again, then go through the Aa area again and pick the color you want. It unselects the font again lot though so it takes a few tries to get it how you want it.

Now if I could get my stickers to work, I’d really be happy. I’m so disappointed this hasn’t been fixed yet. It will do a similar thing to the font color of trying to pull up a sticker and will disappear in about 1/2 seconds.

How long is it going to take before Apple fixes this issue? It’s been over a month now and the last iOS update did nothing about it.

HEY APPLE!!! DO YOU HEAR US?

They had better hope Elon Musk doesn’t come out with a competing device.