Highlighting not working in Ebooks app on iOS / iPadOS
I am using the current Faithlife Mobile EBooks app on my iPhone and iPad with OS version 18.1 on both. On both highlighting is not working.
iPhone:
I swipe over a range of text. As I do so, the text is bounded by a light blue dotted line. When I remove my finger, the dotted line disappears and no highlighting happens. I do not get the yellow highlighting as I swipe.
iPad:
As I swipe to highlight, the text is highlighted in yellow. When I lift my finger, the highlighting disappears.
This used to work properly on both mobile platforms, but has stopped working in the near past. A regression in the code maybe?
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I do not have this particular app downloaded to check. However: Make sure that the visual filter is turned on... else, you will create the highlight but not see it!
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Thanks JT for your suggestion. Perhaps someone with the EBooks.app can tell me where in the app to go to change this option?
I am able to see highlights that I made say a month or longer ago, I just can't create new highlights now (or for the past few weeks). I checked and this happens in all books I tried at present.
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Which specific version of the app are you using?
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I can’t find any setting for visual filters in the e-books app.
What I did find is that when you have a resource open and you tap on the three dots in the top right hand corner, and then you select view settings, if you scroll down there is a switch to turn on ”Swipe to highlight” or turn it off. In your iPad is that turned on?
Something I have noticed over the years is computers that are not powered off and powered back on, once in a while, develop glitches that result in things getting a bit wonky. if you haven’t powered your iPad off completely, recently, I suggest giving that a try.
I can report that highlighting is working for me on my iPad. I prefer to have highlight to swipe turned off because then I can choose which highlight I apply, and I can also swipe to create a note.
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Do you have "swipe to highlight" turned on?
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I had some funny problems and found I had accidentally turned on the bible text only filter.
In the kebab menu, top right of the pane you have a “View Settings” selection. That opens a submenu that has
- the “swipe text to highlight” option someone else mentioned
- Show notes and highlights optionand
- a ”Reformat Text” that opens another submenu with several options
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Oh, I missed that, Alan. The show notes/highlights which could be the solution. Well done
Perhaps that is what JT meant by Visual Filter as well.
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Alan saunders said:
I had some funny problems and found I had accidentally turned on the bible text only filter.
In the kebab menu, top right of the pane you have a “View Settings” selection. That opens a submenu that has
- the “swipe text to highlight” option someone else mentioned
- Show notes and highlights optionand
- a ”Reformat Text” that opens another submenu with several options
Swipe to highlight is turned on.
Show notes/highlights is on.
Reformat text is off
I am using version 37.0.2(4)
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you restarted your iPad
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Antony Brennan said:
you restarted your iPad
I restarted my iPad and iPhone and now swipe highlighting works again as expected.
We need to start using Windows tech support tricks on Apple gear [;)]
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Alright 🎉
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I spoke too soon.
I opened the EBook.app on my iPhone this morning, and swiping to highlight surrounds the selected text with the light blue dotted line, and then disappears when you lift your finger. This is with the app version 37.0.2(4). Restarting the iPhone and the EBook app made no difference.
Perhaps one of the Logos gurus can tell me what does it mean when text is surrounded with the light blue dotted line, instead of the usual green solid line when highlighting is working properly?
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Mark Livingstone said:
Perhaps one of the Logos gurus can tell me what does it mean when text is surrounded with the light blue dotted line, instead of the usual green solid line when highlighting is working properly?
screenshot?
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Here is the blue dotted lines when you swipt to highlight. As soon as you remove your finger from the screen, the dotted line vanishes.
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The blue dotted lines, as well as the empty magnifying glass, indicate some sort of UI issue. I don't think this is a widespread issue but more likely related to your installation. Have you tried deleting the app and reinstalling?
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What happens if you try to highlight outside of your reading plan?
Have you tried turning "swipe to highlight" off?
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JT (alabama24) said:
The blue dotted lines, as well as the empty magnifying glass, indicate some sort of UI issue. I don't think this is a widespread issue but more likely related to your installation. Have you tried deleting the app and reinstalling?
Deleting and reinstalling seems to have done the trick. Maybe something somehow got corrupted?
Thanks for your help and suggestions! God Bless, MarkL
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Mark Livingstone said:
Maybe something somehow got corrupted?
How many resources did you have downloaded?
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JT (alabama24) said:Mark Livingstone said:
Maybe something somehow got corrupted?
How many resources did you have downloaded?
I had ESV, KJV, the book I was reading, so I don't think that was part of the problem.
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Out of curiosity, why did you choose the FLEB app instead of the Logos one?
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