How To Turn Off iOS 9 Pages New Toolbar

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How To Turn Off iOS 9 Pages New Toolbar

Is there any way to turn off the new toolbar in Pages for iOS 9?

THey put a new undo button exactly where the indent button use to be and I keep hitting it on accident. If you don't notice this before you start typing the next paragraph, you can't even undo the accidental undo and you are just screwed.

I Haven't been able to find any options but am hoping there is a secret menu somewhere that I'm overlooking and will save the day.

THe Notes app oddly never did have an indent button, button it does have this awkward undo button that scares me

Posted on Oct 2, 2015 2:33 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 2, 2015 5:36 AM in response to alanchrishughes

No, there isn't any way to hide or alter it.

Yes, you can revert an "undo" as long as you do so before typing any additional content (pretty much work as it does in desk top versions of most word processors, such as MS word).

Keyboards have been fully contextualized to the app you are using in iOS for as long as I can remember. that isn't new.

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Answer 2

Oct 2, 2015 6:09 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Are you working for Apple now a days? I thought you were in the army or navy.

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Answer 3

Oct 2, 2015 1:09 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

You are Shawn Bartlet right?

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Answer 4

Oct 2, 2015 1:11 PM in response to alanchrishughes

No

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Answer 5

Oct 3, 2015 1:20 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Oh, sorry for the mix up. Can I ask you where you got that username from "Kilgore-Trout" ? My old friend has the same Facebook username and its so weird I assumed you had to be him.

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Answer 6

Oct 5, 2015 4:32 AM in response to alanchrishughes

A character from several of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.

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Answer 7

Dec 5, 2015 10:45 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Do you know if there is a way to set more than one "undo" in Notes? I don't think I have ever noticed in time that I accidentally hit the list button, to be able to undo it, and everything I had been typing is now completely f'd.

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Answer 8

Dec 7, 2015 5:00 AM in response to alanchrishughes

There is no "Undo" in notes, per se. however, taping the list icon while on the line in question will will remove the check list keeping the text on the line intact.

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Answer 9

Dec 7, 2015 11:48 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

It does have one undo, but I never notice until several steps later, when I need several more undo's. Clicking this list button again seems to remove the check box or bullet things, but the text size is permanently tiny, until I can get on my desktop computer where it has the options to change the font size.

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Answer 10

Dec 7, 2015 12:29 PM in response to alanchrishughes

That is correct. The iOS version does not allow for changing the font size. Honestly, it looks like you are looking for something beyond what the iOS Notes apps is designed for. Try Evernote of OneNote (or any of the myriad of note apps in the app store).

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Answer 11

Dec 7, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Yeah I know Notes isn't meant to be a regular word processor, but I'm still stuck on a 1st gen ipad mini, which doesn't really support Pages any more, so I'm just trying to make it work with Notes now.

I tried Evernote, but that seemed too big also to work on my ipad, and it also added a bunch of formatting I didn't like. Notes for the most part works great. I can type what I need and then copy and paste it into a Pages document and then open that on my computer and continue writing and the text doesn't have any weird Notes formatting. It's just plain text that formats to the Pages document.

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