iPad: Text Formatting Toolbar Unresponsive and Highlight Colour Picker Not Opening
Device: iPad Air M2 with Magic Keyboard OS: iPadOS 27.0.1 Affected platforms: Native iPad app, Safari (desktop mode), Orion Browser (desktop mode) Issue: The text formatting toolbar is consistently buggy on iPad, with several options either unresponsive or behaving incorrectly. The most reproducible issue is that the text highlight colour picker does not open at all, making it impossible to select highlight colours. I've also noticed additional problems depending on how I'm using the iPad:
- With Magic Keyboard: The highlight colour picker remains unresponsive.
- Without Magic Keyboard (touch input): In addition to the unresponsive colour picker, tapping certain toolbar options sometimes selects the text or block directly underneath the toolbar instead of activating the intended formatting option. Steps to reproduce:
- Open any page containing editable text in Capacities.
- Select a word or sentence to bring up the formatting toolbar.
- Attempt to open the text highlight colour picker.
- Observe that the picker does not open.
- Try other formatting options. Several fail to respond or behave inconsistently.
- Repeat using touch input without the Magic Keyboard attached. Some taps interact with the underlying text or block instead of the toolbar. Troubleshooting already attempted:
- Native Capacities iPad app
- Safari with desktop mode enabled
- Orion Browser with desktop website settings
- Testing with and without the Magic Keyboard The issues persist across all three platforms. Expected behaviour: The formatting toolbar should respond reliably to both touch and keyboard/trackpad input. The highlight colour picker should open and allow colour selection without interfering with the underlying text. Request: Could you confirm whether this is a known iPad compatibility issue or a bug? Is there an existing workaround or planned fix? I'm using Capacities for research, reading and annotation, so reliable text formatting is particularly important.
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Thanks for the detailed report. I can’t confirm whether this is a known issue or whether a workaround exists; could you add your Capacities app version and say whether it also happens on a new page? Tablet editing documentation
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Hi Ishan Mahendru this is a known issue on the current iPad version. We are working on Tablet 2.0 which should improve many parts of the app.