Markup issue/bug IOS 18.0 photo editor

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.

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.

Sad and frustrating; this is still a problem in 18.2.1.

Markup is a valuable feature and killing it with no prompt resolution is terrible.

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.

Same. 18.1. I can do all the markups I want but then, when I go to save, “sorry we can’t save right now, try again later”. Sometimes a restart helps. Most times it does nothing. Waiting for iCloud to finish syncing doesn’t help either (in fact, the last successful use of markup was when iCloud was actively updating….go figure). So beyond frustrating. I miss the days when their motto was, “it just works”…..

Happening to me too. I rely on markup for business product photos. What the heck am I going to do now? Even even it is working, it’s going to take way more time for each photo. Who the **** thought this would be a good change? And how do we get it fixed?

Having same problems on new iPhone 16 Pro Max. It is unfathomable that something that worked well before is now broken. Take the good code from ios17 and paste it into ios18 and it should work. Is this rocket science. What bothers me is Apple testers. What do they test?

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.

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.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

IOS 18.2 on my Iphone 11pro didn't solve the "add shape" issue in Photos. So frustrating that a such basic and useful feature is not working !!!!

It finally started working for me yesterday (1/8/2025). Have an iPhone 13 Pro Max on iOS 18.2.1.

I don't think this is a matter of Apple not noticing. Quite sure Apple is well aware there's an issue with MarkUp. Whether it gets fixed or not has nothing to do with you and me. Does Apple show itself to be a company that values custormer satisfaction and service? No, they stopped that charade a long time ago. If it's not hurting sales and they're not getting sued it's irrelevant.

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

Even with iOS 18.1, it’s still there on my SE3 - frustrating trying to add text to images