# iOS26 has broken my journaling app \[formatting buttons, highlights, "pencil" button, all non-functional\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Scrivener for iOS\ **Tags:** bug, interface\ **Created:** [September 22, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720 "2025-09-22T17:16:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/1 "2025-09-22T17:16:15Z")
Attempting to insert date and time in my running journal has failed: pressing the ‘pencil’ button, or any button in the keyboard toolbar, launches the menu briefly that then disappears completely, replaced by a white line where the options panel might have been, and a keyboard below that with a blank toolbar above it; iPhone 16, first occurrence, after switching to iOS 26; going to delete and reload the app, will report back… ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/2 "2025-09-22T17:22:03Z")
Nope: deleted, redownloaded, reopened document, issue still unresolved; please advise​:eye:🫵🏼🫀 ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/3 "2025-09-22T17:28:47Z")
Same in dark or light mode; doesn’t affect keyboard or toolbar buttons — only buttons that launch a menu from the top of the keyboard: menu briefly appears, then disappears, replaced by a line above a keyboard w/ a blank toolbar; Please advise ---
**Author:** ![adverbian](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@adverbian](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/adverbian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/4 "2025-09-23T02:27:26Z")
I’m having the same issue with iOS 26. Scrivener version 1.2.4 (3405). Insert, Formatting Options, Alignment buttons — all show the relevant menu for a fraction of a second, then menu disappears and there’s only a blank space with a line above it. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/6 "2025-09-23T10:32:00Z")
Thanks for the report. We were alerted to this just the other day, and have it written up to get fixed. Meanwhile I would try long-tapping on any button you don’t need, and adding the formatting button you want to add directly, and see if that works better. ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/7 "2025-09-23T10:32:11Z")
1.2.4: twins! 30 characters, ubi nunc sunt, mono no aware, kintsugi, ad hoc de rerum ex machina ibidem ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/8 "2025-09-23T10:33:56Z")
Please expand on your suggestion – I have no idea what you’re talking about. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/9 "2025-09-23T10:44:58Z")
A “long tap” is the act of taking your finger and pressing it against the screen of your telephone for a measure of time, around one to one and half seconds, to enact an alternative behaviour for the graphical depiction of an object that you are pressing your finger against—in this case, one of the toolbar buttons, as suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Chelseyblair](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Chelseyblair](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Chelseyblair)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/10 "2025-09-23T16:16:58Z")
Same issue trying to change style. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/11 "2025-09-23T17:37:33Z")
Is this happening from within the Formatting overlay, where you scroll down a bit to the list of styles in the project, and tap on one, or is it the act of bringing up the overlay in general? ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/12 "2025-09-23T18:08:21Z")
Hey Amber, thank you for describing the process of long-tap; given that simply pressing a function button in the keyboard toolbar doesn’t lead to failure, you have successfully resolved my issue; when I asked you to expand I meant that I was unaware that the toolbar is customizable or of how that is achieved; that’s also to say that it doesn’t occur within the overlay, but in the process of launching the overlay itself: a failure to launch so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/13 "2025-09-23T18:14:53Z")
Okay! Glad to hear that the function itself, to add the time and date, works fine when added as a button. That may even be more useful to you in general, than as simply a workaround. So you see this problem the other person brought up, with the Formatting “brush” icon as well, leading to a single line drawn across the screen? I guess the two might be using the same mechanism even though they look very different (one a menu, the other a thing covering the keyboard). Unfortunately I cannot reproduce any of this on an iPad running 26, even if I shrink Scrivener all the way down to its narrowest size (which makes it conform to the iPhone layout). So it must be a difference in the forked OS versions themselves rather than the UI itself. ---
**Author:** ![AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@AV8D](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AV8D)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/14 "2025-09-24T18:26:12Z")
Confirmed, same issue with Formatting Brush icon; and the color palette Marker icon, and the Paragraph format icon; seems to be an issue w/ pop up menus relative to keyboard; the fix is in until y’all re-rig the thing tho; thanks again ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/15 "2025-09-24T19:07:31Z")
Thank you. I have amended the ticket accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![cavalierex](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/cavalierex/32/28978_2.png) [@cavalierex](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/cavalierex)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/16 "2025-12-27T00:00:31Z")
I am having the same issues on iOS 26 (iPhone). Cannot use styles system or other tools, as described above. The menus pop up for a very brief second, then the keyboard glitches and goes back to the regular iOS keyboard (having lost Scrivener’s top row). ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/17 "2025-12-27T03:44:06Z")
I have heard multiple reports state that if you enable 3rd party keyboard support, in Scrivener’s Editor settings section, that it can suppress the bug. I don’t know to what extent, but I do know you don’t even need such a keyboard installed. ---
**Author:** ![cavalierex](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/cavalierex/32/28978_2.png) [@cavalierex](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/cavalierex)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/18 "2025-12-27T03:50:34Z")
Thanks for this tip. I tested it out quickly, and it did fix the visual glitch. I will do some writing tomorrow and see if functionality works correctly. Is L&L working on an app update bug fix? ---
**Author:** ![amelchi](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@amelchi](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/amelchi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/19 "2026-01-09T15:43:51Z")
is there any iOS Scrivener upgrade? ---
**Author:** ![sitreous](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/sitreous/32/38789_2.png) [@sitreous](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/sitreous)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/20 "2026-01-10T16:56:55Z")
Is L&L even maintaining the iOS Scrivener app anymore? It’s been busted since before September. this bug makes the editor unusable and extremely frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720/21 "2026-01-10T18:11:48Z")
Are you saying the setting adjustment does not fix the problem for you? We will be looking into fixing this, but from what I understand it should be made usable for now. [Next page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ios26-has-broken-my-journaling-app-formatting-buttons-highlights-pencil-button-all-non-functional/150720.md?page=2)