Revision Mode on iOS?

Here’s how I simulated revisions in iOS recently:

  1. I created a style called Revision 1 on my Mac by selecting some revised text and using Format > Style > New Style from Selection… . I made sure that I only saved character attributes – no fonts or font size, and certainly not paragraph formatting.
  2. When editing on iOS I used the style for my edits. Yes, it was annoying to have to set it every time I moved to a different spot to edit, but not as bad as trying to match a Mac colour on iOS.
  3. When the next round of revisions came up, I followed this process for Revision 2. Repeat as needed. :smiley:

The real advantage of this method came when it was time to either find by formatting or remove revisions. For some Apple reason, text colours from iOS may not transfer as the exact same colour back to Mac, even if you defined the colour on Mac and didn’t change it on iOS, but only used it. I could find Mac revisions by colour and iOS revisions by style. By a similar method, I could remove all Mac revisions from the revision menu, and remove iOS revisions by first redefining the style back to no colour, and then by deleting the styles.

(I suspect that the colour inaccuracies induced by iOS are part of the reason revision mode on iOS is not going to happen. :confused:)

To summarise, I faked revision mode on iOS by using styles. Because of colour inaccuracies introduced by iOS and the need to set a style each time I started typing in a different place on iOS, this approach is not as smooth as using revision mode on Mac. By the third revision round, I gave up and just lugged my mac laptop everywhere. YMMV.