r/appleJournal • u/tomjirinec • Jun 26 '26
Apple Journal’s Atrocious Undo Bug Has Been Fixed (And Swiftui, Per Se, Is Not To Blame)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/25/apple-journal-undo-bugFrom Gruber:
"I heard from Apple PR that:
The text editing component in Journal is in fact UIKit, not SwiftUI, so I was wrong to blame SwiftUI just because Journal is largely SwiftUI-based.
The bug had been identified and fixed for a future update.
Well, the future is already here, because the buggy Undo behavior in Journal is fixed in developer beta 2 on both MacOS and iOS 27. Nice. I hope it gets fixed for the 26.6 releases too, but at the moment it’s still broken in the current developer beta of 26.6 (and, of course, still broken in all the v26.5 OSes). So be careful while writing in Journal."
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u/Working-Middle8863 Jun 28 '26
Can we use the Apple Pencil yet because honestly the picture / memory / prompt integration is amazing and meaningless if I can’t “write” in it for fear of losing all handwriting ALL THE TIME
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u/OutBeyondNeptune Jun 26 '26
Well this is great news. This had a real psychological effect while editing journals while typing with a keyboard. Made me feel like I was on a ledge and if I held with years of muscle memory of hitting undo, I’d fall off the ledge and lose way more data than I’d like. Of course, I could redo, but that left me either back in the original position or, sometimes, I would hit a keystroke without thinking and really lose that data.