It’s there, will update your copy in place if you visit Updates in the Store.
Auto-update should happen on some schedule for your device; I wasn’t patient.
It’s great, so far. I had no idea how actually important the return of the Scrivenings/Draft Navigator would be, at least personally . Especially on the smaller screen of an iPad, to be able to scan through the whole of a project gives an immediate fresh feeling of its content and state.
I didn’t find a list of what else has been improved, but am sure this will appear, and we do know about the fonts reworking, as @scarlock has kindly posted here.
Thank you, Keith @KB. Much appreciated, very certainly.
Scrivener now supports fonts installed on iOS from font provider apps such as Adobe Creative Cloud and Font Diner. (The font chooser Ul has been updated to use Apple’s standard font picker to allow for this.)
Search bars have been updated to use the most recent iOS UI conventions.
PDF research files are now shown using Apple’s dedicated PDF view rather than a web view, improving the viewing experience.
Updated outline keyboard shortcuts so that left/right arrow keys now expand folders and groups rather than drill down into them. To drill down, now use Cmd-right or hit return; to go back, hit Cmd-return.
Improved styles so that typographic settings such as small caps, medium, semibold and other features added to styles created on macOS or Windows now work in the iOS version.
BUG FIXES
Fixed crashes on trying to access project screen help and the Bookmarks and Recents list in some circumstances.
Fixed bug whereby typed text would disappear beneath the visible area on some iPhones.
Fixed bug whereby drafts navigator was blank.
Fixed bugs with some controls appearing light in dark mode.
Fixed issue with scriptwriting mode in non-English languages.
Fixed several keyboard positioning issues.
Fixed issue whereby exporting PDF files using hyphenation could result in truncated files.
Thanks, @SWM . Somehow things have felt overall smoother, already, and there are several things on the list that may contribute to this, so, good to be aware of them.
The PDF improvement is very fast, so this will make a nice way to add to Research from web pages when on Windows Scrivener, as the .met files it saves there from links aren’t edible from iPads.
I very much suspect the new alignment of basic text styles with Windows machines is going to be a relaxer in use, also.
And the many other careful thoughts inside definitely feel they’re going to be helpful, make even further that smoothness that just lets you write…
The minimum supported operating system is now iOS 11.0.0.
Enhancements
Massively improved Dropbox syncing times - the “Downloading file list” stage should now only take a couple of seconds even when checking thousands of files, whereas previously it could take a couple of minutes.
App icon tweaked to match macOS app.
Scrivener now supports fonts installed on iOS from font provider apps such as Adobe Creative Cloud and Font Diner. (The font chooser UI has been updated to use Apple’s standard font picker to allow for this.)It is now not possible to remove individual fonts, but all custom fonts can be removed from the system Settings app, under Scrivener > Reset Scrivener.
The search bar in the projects list and binder is now part of the nav bar as per modern conventions, which fixes a number of issues with extra spacing appearing above the search bar or the search bar disappearing on rotating the device.
PDF research files are now shown using Apple’s dedicated PDF view rather than a web view, improving the viewing experience.
Updated outline keyboard shortcuts so that left/right arrow keys now expand folders and groups rather than drill down into them. To drill down, now use Cmd-right or hit return; to go back, hit Cmd-left.
Improved styles so that typographic settings such as small caps, medium, semibold and other features added to styles created on macOS or Windows now work in the iOS version.
Bug Fixes
Fixed crashes on trying to access project screen help and the Bookmarks and Recents list in some circumstances.
Fixed bug whereby typed text would disappear beneath the visible area on some iPhones.
Fixed bug whereby drafts navigator was blank.
Fixed bugs with some controls appearing light in dark mode.
Fixed issue with scriptwriting mode in non-English languages.
Fixed several keyboard positioning issues.
Fixed issue whereby exporting PDF files using hyphenation could result in truncated files.
Dozens of other minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Fixed a bug whereby the app could crash on the iPhone if you tapped “Scrivener” to return to the project screen while a search was active.
Fixed bug whereby the wrong nav bar buttons could be displayed in the projects list on the iPhone.
Fixed bug whereby index card images were not copied when duplicating documents.
Fixed bug whereby scriptwriting text written in dark mode could end up permanently white, making it invisible in light mode.
Fixed bug whereby font preview in formatting palette would be unreadable in light mode if selected text was white.
Fixed bug whereby app could crash or throw error when tapping the help button in the projects screen.
Fixed bug whereby deleting a word using Opt-delete would leave the cursor in an unexpected position.
Fixed bug whereby media files could be moved into the Draft folder via the Move To feature if draft folders were contained in the Recents or Bookmarks lists.
Fixed bug whereby footnote text could be saved as white in dark mode, thus making footnotes impossible to read in exported files.This fix will only impact footnotes created after updating, with older footnotes needing to have their text colour fixed.
New footnotes and comments now use default text formatting.
Fixed bug whereby rows in the search results could be too tall when scrolled into view.
Fixed bug whereby formatting popover nav bar was white in dark mode.
Fixed bug whereby duplicating research documents would result in a sync conflict error upon reopening a project.
Fixed bug whereby scriptwriting wouldn’t work well in languages other than English, with return and tab not automatically switching between elements.
Fixed bug whereby floating keyboard would cause some floating sheets to disappear off the top of the screen (such as the label colours screen in the floating inspector).
“Unstyled Paste” is no longer available in the synopsis area where it has no effect.
Fixed bug whereby synopsis would scroll to the bottom or jerkily scroll up and down while typing in the inspector.
Confusing “level” information removed from VoiceOver text for the binder.
Fixed issue whereby on iOS 15 the multitasking dots at the top of the screen would interfere with the word count/targets control in the nav bar when in full screen mode.
Minor updates to tutorial project.
Fixed bug where nav bar wasn’t hidden when searching, meaning that the “Edit” button was available when it shouldn’t have been.
PDF documents and Compile preview now use iOS’s dedicated PDF viewer rather than a web view. This also fixes an issue whereby the last-viewed page and zoom were not restored when opening a PDF document.
Fixed bug whereby scriptwriting auto-complete list would be shown even if auto-complete was turned off in the settings.
Worked around an iOS bug whereby if you set Scrivener to run in dark mode while the system was using light mode, there would be a gap below the navigation bar.
Slightly increased padding at top and bottom of text on the iPhone.
Disabled scrollilng animation while typing. Hopefully this should improve problems some users have encountered whereby text can disappear beneath the keyboard while typing on an iPhone.
Fixed bug whereby selected rows in the Compile appearance editor would be white in dark mode.
Should definitely be both – it’s the same Scrivener with the fix, and the same Apple software it’s running on ,just with a different look, or arrangement of the features, between pads and phones…
Draft Navigator is one of the iOS Scriv features that only works on iPads. (I believe there are one or two others, but at the moment they’re not coming to mind!)
Yeah, it was the Corkboard that I was(n’t) remembering. I believe the explanation from L&L was that those features require more screen real estate than a phone provides.
@popcornflix , what was fixed as far as Draft Navigator wasn’t whether it showed as a feature, but whether it had content in it. This was lost for a little while, over something Apple did.
It’s probably pretty apparent that my phone isn’t an iPhone. Yet…
Yeah, I never understood that position, because if you search for “corkboard” in the iPhone App Store, there are a whole slew of iPhone apps that do index cards. There’s even one specifically for writers.
I wish Scrivener would bring Scrivenings and Corkboard to the iPhone. Ah, well…
Thank you, Jim! I don’t often use the Draft folder, preferring to have a bunch of different binders that I work on in smaller chunks.
Do you know if there is a way in iOS to designate multiple Draft folders? Or is it pre-built with just one? What about if there isn’t a draft folder, like in a custom project created on desktop?
There’s always a “draft” folder, even if it’s been renamed by the template it came from or by you. By default, they all share the same icon, so that’s a clue as to which one it is. You can’t create extras, and you can’t delete the one that’s there (unless something has gone horribly wrong/you’ve dug into the guts of the project files outside of Scrivener and done something foolish).
The Draft folder is one of the three “special” folders in every Scriv project. Every project must have a Draft, a Research, and a Trash folder–they can be renamed but not deleted.
Sorry if this seems an obvious point, but if you created subfolders within your Draft folder to break your work into desired chunks, then wouldn’t that be the same thing? Then you could use the Draft Navigator, as well as work in chunks. What do you see as the downside of that approach?
I just came here to say wow, and thank you for the update. For those who steered away from the iOS version because syncing was so slow, the update notes weren’t kidding when they said there was a massive speed improvement. It’s night and day!
