Crashes on iPad
I thought that the constant crashes were because I didn’t have enough memory or that my iPad was too old. Got a brand new one and put very little on it. It still barely works and crashes too often. Not great for a graphic designer.
Disappointed
Would like to see more features available that are already available on desktop
Could be useful but...
Illustrator for iPad has serious stability and responsiveness issues. I’m using a current iPad Pro with plenty of available performance, and the app frequently becomes unresponsive or force-closes while working on relatively simple vector artwork. I’ve experienced freezes during basic editing, Type on Path operations, Pathfinder/Combine Shapes work, and even while renaming or saving a document. In one case, an existing document repeatedly returned “Can’t Place File” for both JPEG and PNG images, while the exact same images placed normally in a new Illustrator document. Copying the image from the new document into the existing one worked, which suggests a document-state or application bug rather than a file-format problem.
The app is extremely useful when it works, especially with Apple Pencil, but the instability makes it difficult to trust for professional production work. Constantly saving, duplicating files, reopening the app, and creating workarounds to avoid crashes significantly disrupts the workflow. Illustrator for iPad could be an excellent professional design tool if Adobe focused heavily on stability, document reliability, and responsiveness.
The app is extremely useful when it works, especially with Apple Pencil, but the instability makes it difficult to trust for professional production work. Constantly saving, duplicating files, reopening the app, and creating workarounds to avoid crashes significantly disrupts the workflow. Illustrator for iPad could be an excellent professional design tool if Adobe focused heavily on stability, document reliability, and responsiveness.
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Ok but Clunky
It’s not bad but it’s very much arranged like the desktop app which makes it less intuitive on iPad. Feel one of the things is drawing with the pencil. But the let down is in the layering.
Crashes so often, can’t even work properly
Just as the title says. This app crashes 10 billion times before you can even start a project.
