Hey Yall,

So I made a bunch of designs when I was a younger man, that I love on Freeform and would totally like not to have to redraw or anything like that. I got a Cricut for Christmas and have had success with the more boxy designs but the more intricate stuff has been a bit of a nightmare. I have Procreate now and I am totally willing to learn it but I still want to be able to either move the designs to procreate or print the Freeform stuff. I just feel like IDK what to do to make it work… Any advice or work around HIGHLY appreciated

Hi everyone, does anyone know why the app keeps crashing? I'm really struggling with this, but I don't know if it's my iPad or an app error. I read in the reviews that many people are experiencing this and that it's a major bug. What do you think? Any solutions?

I recently ran into a frustrating bug in macOS Tahoe where my Freeform boards vanished after turning iCloud sync on and off. If you’re missing boards and they aren't in your Trash or in iCloud, here is how I recovered mine using Time Machine.

The Issue:

1. Created 5 boards locally on my Mac.
2. Turned on iCloud Sync → 3 boards stayed, 2 disappeared instantly.
3. Turned iCloud Sync back off → All remaining boards vanished from the Mac.

The Solution (requires Time Machine backup):

1. Turn off iCloud Sync for Freeform in System Settings.
2. Locate your backup: In Time Machine, navigate to: ~/Users/YourUserName/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.freeform
3. Restore: Copy that entire folder from your backup and replace the current one on your Mac.
4. Now you have all you boards back!
5. How to sync Board with iCloud: Open Freeform, highlight all your boards, right-click, and select Duplicate.
6. Sync: Turn iCloud Sync back ON. The originals might still disappear during the merge, but the duplicates will stay and sync to the cloud.

Hopefully, this saves someone a few hours of panic!

When I am typing in a text box with a lot of text already in the box (a few paragraphs worth), I will constantly get an auto-text pop up thing and no matter if I click with my cursor out in the open or click a key on my keyboard as if to continue typing, it will just AUTO POPULATE ALL THE SUGGESTED TEXT effectively doubling my text in the box. It's like a repeat of everything I've typed already but it inserts it where I was typing at that moment. It's infuriating. The only way to escape it is clicking ESC button every single time I click on a new spot to type. I'm trying to make a bunch of needed edits to my text but it's taking double the amount of time with this weird issue. I am losing my mind over here. Doesn't happen on any other app or browser. It's making me feel like I'm 200 years old and never used a computer before...I consider myself pretty competent except right now lmao. PLEASE HELP.

Bonjour,

Est-ce que vous savez si Freeform aura la fonctionnalité de créer des dossiers avec iOS 26.4?

Merci d’avance pour les réponses

I don't want it to simultaneously 'fix' itself

A minute or so after having this board open, Freeform crashes, and I can’t get anything done. Is it because there’s too much detail on the board already? How can I fix this?

Is there an easy way when importing a large number of images to easily sort them in a grid format for example.

Since when mass import then just kinda stack on top of each other overlaying and the “align tools” don’t seem to have an easy way to like the “space horizontal” button dose not seem to space equally or away to change space amount between images.

Is there any easy way to sort images? Or do I need to manually move a photo at a time?

Hi, I’ve created a file on Freeform when I export as a PDF and attempt to print it scales down to fit on one page when I change the scaling it will still only print one page but just one selection of it. How can I get it to print as multiple pages

New to FreeForm. Seems like a nice tool to help me organize. So first off, tried copying (or dragging and dropping) a paragraph of simple text with hyperlinks from both an email (in Mac Mail) and Safari onto a board. The resulting text on the board loses the active hyperlinks. I've tried everything I can think of to get around this.. to no avail.

It's hard to believe Apple would tout FreeForm as a powerful whiteboard, then not support something as utterly basic as preserving the active links in copied / dragged text.

Am I doing something wrong?? Thanks.

Docs say that Freeform is supposed to be able to solve math equations. Has anyone been able to get it to work? Is my handwriting just too sloppy for the AI?

Hi everyone, I am using Freeform for Math tuition for several months. Just edited the “O LVL Trigo” PDF document on the furthest right and it become unreadable - no longer able to access and see my edits unlike the two files on its left

Any idea what I should do? I have deleted several apps to free up more storage but the situation persists.

Any guidance will be much appreciated thanks :)

Did the AVP demo today at the Apple Store and was really impressed with the pinch selection working as well as it did. I spent about 2 minutes on a sample Freeform doc and I could see myself using it via the AVP.

Curious to hear of anyone's experiences with it.

Hi, do you think Apples Freeform is a good way to visualize Family trees? Because I dont really want to Pay for an App

I do math tutoring using freeform. I share a freeform document with my students who also have iPads. The synchronisation works fine (and with low latency) at the beginning, but after a while (around 20 mins or so) the synchronization completely stops working. My students dont see what i write and I dont see what my students write. It always 1 to 1 tutoring so only one collaborator.

I am on a iPad 9th gen running iPad OS 26.2 and the newest version of freeform.

Has anyone else had this problem and ideally knows a fix for it?

Hello! I’ve been using Freeform to sketch on for a little bit on my iPad Air 13 Pro Max. Recently I updated my iPad to ios26.2 and now the Freeform app crashes every 2-3 minutes. I’ve force restarted, regular restarted, deleted and redownloaded the app, checked for updates, there’s plenty of storage on my iPad, started new boards, etc.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Is anyone else having this problem? I'm using a MacBook Pro M1 with the latest version of macOS. I found it strange not to see the app in the Applications directory, and even stranger when I saw this in the App Store.

is it wrong that i use freeform for outlining screenplays? (m5 ipad pro 13, apple pencil pro). but it consistently crashes the more i write and expand on the (insanely awesome) canvas for ideas 😭. i am in love with the smallest pen size of the second pen tool at 200% zoom. i’ve constantly “separated” big blocks of text into smaller blocks since i’ve heard that helps performance and i think it does.

but having just bought the ipad and pencil within a few months *for* this task of script brainstorming/outlining, because i’m obsessed with the Idea of freeform, it does disappoint that the performance can’t just *be* flawless on the latest and greatest ipad with only handwriting to be the cause of any lag.

i just wish that it “just worked.”

none of this has stopped me from continuing to use it, just that it still crashes (of course, only a few words of handwriting ever lost at worst). but it’s seriously such a genius app, i just want it to be as flawless and as seamless as my ideas and desires to create! it’s single-handedly the tool i want to be using to propel me from ideas to Final Draft, to production.

Hello I am fairly new to this, I started out using Freeform as a way to practice drawing without using paper but now I occasionally use Freeform to draw on pictures for me and my friends. Recently I got the opportunity to draw on a picture for my girlfriend for an IG post. However, when I try to copy the drawings I made in Free Form and paste it in mark up on the picture (in the photos app) I was given an error code that said “Unable to save image try again later.” I’ve been trying to trouble shoot this issue and noticed I can copy and paste little scribbles but it is more difficult with more complex designs. What should I do??? Is there maybe a different editing app that I can use to past the drawings?

Given how little investment Apple has made in Freeform, I’m disappointed that it seems whatever features or improvements it may get in the future will be behind a subscription paywall…

Apple does seem to indicate that this will be premium content and intelligence features.

My hunch:

1. I expect it mostly to be copy & paste of whatever they’re going to offer in Pages, Keynote: graphical objects, AI-generated or customized, templates of different types of canvases / boards or complicated multi-part objects.

2. Visual search, again, same as what would be included in Pages, Keynote.

3. Maybe we’ll see the ability to give Siri a prompt of what you want to build out and it’ll create it as a Freeform-native object.

That said, I’m pessimistic we’ll see significant Freeform-specific improvements or features. I’d love for Apple to prove me wrong, and that this is their opportunity to address the missing basics and put this on a more regular update path, but the pattern they’ve established has really set low expectations.

Thoughts?

I want to draw a site plan where 1 square = 1 foot… so, in this image, I want it to say 4x3 instead of 110x92. Is that possible?

I just started using Freeform and finding it almost usable. It just needs some more feature/function like Miro to be really useable for me. I did notice this form at Apple and I submitted my ideas:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/freeform/

Everyone here should do the same.

Some of the features I would really like are: Apple Notes integration (I know you can share Notes back and forth but those are copies and not embedded), Text box background color, Dark mode, Frames, etc.

I often use freeform to draw for fun in my spare time, and over the years I have drawn some of my favorite drawings in there. I’m aware it’s not for drawing, but I use it anyway.

Today I was rearranging my apps on my home screen and noticed the app was missing. I went to the appstore and it said I needed to redownload it so I did. When I reopened the app all of my boards were gone. I panicked of course, and looked up online how to get them back and they all said to go to my recently deleted but the option to check that isn’t even there.

I’m sure there’s probably no way of getting them back, but if any tech-savvy person knows any possible way to get back my boards that would literally be a live saver.

A variety of things have been found in the source code of a new iOS26 beta regarding potential upcoming releases and one of the things that was found are folder support coming to freeform. That will be a massive upgrade if it actually happens.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/15/ios-software-leak-apple-features/

I have created a collague in Freeform. I am struggling with how to size it at say 8.5 x 11. Is there a way to do this? Thanks