Type on Path moving around places whenever opening the file again
I’ve come to a constant problem with type on path. Whenever I open my project and then preview it again, the type on path moves away from its original place. It gets annoying whenever I have to move it every time I see this problem. It always changes.

HI,
I was able to reproduce this issue with the file shared with me. Bug is under review and will update once we make any progress on this bug.
Thanks & Regards
Nitish Agarwal
Illustrator on iPad and Web Team
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Jake commented
4/2025 and still having this issue. Any update?
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DC Studios commented
This is extremely annoying and time consuming. Please fix this bug NOW!
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Tasha Chenard commented
I am also having this problem April 2024. This is incredibly inconvenient and frustrating. Every time I open my file I have to rebuild and this is taking up valuable time and waisting my time and client work is take much longer then it should be. This is not an issue I should be loosing money on. Beyond frustrating.
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Axel Site commented
Same problem still. Why aren’t they fixing this? Illustrator is such a awesome program but glitches are here and there.
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Jennifer Shipley commented
I have the same problem. I spent all this time making a label for my packaging and now I am stuck. I saved my file, came back a moment later, the thumbnail looked great. I opened the file and all the text went haywire. I closed file. The thumb looks great. Opened it, the text is upside down and sideways. I closed app and reopened, same thing repeatedly only sometimes instead of sideways and upside down it is a completely different font. It’s a now a big blocky font and it doesn’t fit so all the letters are overlapping in colored squares. It did that twice. I tried copying the text and pasting into different file that didn’t help. I tried duplicating the file and then editing the text. I tried to move the sliders to put the back where it was supposed to be and it won’t work. It’s constantly changing, and then I undo undo, undo back to the beginning now it’s in a completely different place. The top text is inside the bottom text. Something is always upside down. There is no way to fix it. I mean, dragging the sliders, is making it do bizarre things. It’s not supposed to do this, and I am no newbie. I’ve been using illustrator for…well since it was Macromedia Freehand. I’ve been doing this a really long time. Clearly text on a path is not working on the iPad and hasn’t been for a few years and it’s not just for me. I have seen this same question posted other places for like two years now with no solution posted yet. Please fix it.
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Gordon Krum commented
I'm new to iPad. I've have used illustrator since before Adobe bought it and tried to rename it. This 11/21 bug Still Exists in 1/24? I think Phil B is right. It doesn't look good. After all of these years. Shame on you Adobe .
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Phil B commented
Same problem, July 2023. Advise against any paid work on iPad, I think Adobe has abandoned it.
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Haley Raspet commented
Same issue, July 2023.
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Kenny Pinili commented
Same problem. It's annoying.
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Areanna A commented
same problem still. please fix
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Luke Norman commented
I am having the same problem on 4/4/23
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Josh Cook commented
11/6/22
Is there a fix yet?
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xrkt commented
october 18th 2022, still having the issue when typing on a path which is insane as it seems like such a basic feature.
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Lori Jordan commented
This is still happening - Sep 2022. When is a fix expected. This is super annoying and makes the iPad app hard to use when I use text.
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Bella Perez commented
Still Happening For Me July 5 2022
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Claudia commented
It happens to me always when I'm using type on a path
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L Coyle commented
On May 16, 2022 - this issue is still present in Illustrator on the iPad. When I open/close a document or copy and paste type on a path objects to another layer, the settings change and the type repositions.
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Iddy Ace commented
i’m currently having the same issue as of 03/28/22.
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Jake Noble commented
Any update on this yet? I’m still having this issue..
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Kim Alviso commented
As I’ve continued working on my project, now “USS Georgia” moved too.