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sebastianstoelen
New Member
January 11, 2024
Question

Recent FigJam update made handwriting unusable on iPad

  • January 11, 2024
  • 14 replies
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Since a very recent update, I find handwriting to be totally terrible in FigJam for iPad.

Untill a few days ago, handwriting was completely fine and I was using it alot to wireframe and draw up quick user flows.

Since very recently, the correction FigJam applies on drawings with my Apple Pencil make it so my handwriting is not readably anymore, totally rendering FigJam useless for what I use it most.

Has anyone else encountered this? I can’t find any settings controlling the amount of smoothing/correction done?

Really sad to see this loss in functionality!

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14 replies

January 11, 2024

Same here, I can totally relate to that disastrous experience! I’ve been using FigJam for classroom whiteboarding, but this recent update with the auto handwriting enhancement/correction is totally messing up my handwritten notes. Well, I get that this new feature might be helpful in certain situations, but it’s just not working for me at all! Hope they consider rolling it back or at least give us an option to turn it off and go back to the way things were before. Fingers crossed!

djv
Figmate
Community Support
January 11, 2024

Hey All, thanks for flagging this!

We’ve passed this onto our FigJam team to investigate and work on a fix! We’ll let you know once we get an update.

January 12, 2024

Yes, the auto-draw feature was fine for drawings but since the last update, it is applying autodraw to handwriting as well. FigJam brainstorming has become completely useless for me and my teammates since autodraw makes the handwriting illegible.

sebastianstoelen
New Member
January 12, 2024

@dvaliao Thanks for the reply! Looking forward to a fix soon!

Sarah_Meysman
New Member
January 12, 2024

Same here, I’m really stuck due to this, looking forward to a solution.

Scott_Manning
January 15, 2024

Also experiencing this, it’s made it really hard to use as a whiteboard.

Jesper4
January 16, 2024

Also experiencing this. Can’t even draw diagrams because the lines are getting “corrected” extremely frustrating. 😕

January 16, 2024

This is the same issue for me using a Wacom tablet on my desktop PC. It is correcting so hard that I cannot read any word that I am writing.

Rachel_Edwards
January 16, 2024

Also having this problem with a Wacom tablet on desktop. Very difficult to use now, is it possible to turn the corrections off?

Melchior_Bourdin
January 18, 2024

I have exactly the same problem… it is horrible I can’t sketch and wireframe on FigJam because of that… Please correct it fast or at least let us disable it !!