iOS text editor is now available!

SO very happy about this new functionality. Some feedback though:

1. I have a text file that is 350 kB big, and it's awfully slow to edit that file. In comparison, a newly created file has almost decent responsiveness.

2. When clicking on the edit icon, the cursor is inserted at the bottom of the file. I always add text to my files at the top. The optimal thing would be to remove the icon and insert the cursor where the user clicks on the file. I understand that it has implications with selection etc, but still more logical IMO.

Bug Report:

Works fine on iPhone 6s.

Only problem I have on my iPad 4 mini is I can’t exit back to the folder list after saving the file. The back-arrow link does not show at the top left, and I am stuck looking at the just edited file. I have to kill the Dropbox app and restart. The file changes are saved however. 

Dropbox v 64.3

ios 11

—Tim 

Thanks for this. With planetext no longer functional, I’ve been looking for a quick way to edit  ascii files. Don’t need anything fancy, just make changes to a shopping list. Ergo, quick loading is most important 

—Tim

I'm still having problems using this feauture.

I always have 2 txt-files in my root folder of Dropbox to easily reuse on every (Windows) computer that I use, but when I just wanted to copy some text I wrote on my iPhone a few minutes ago, both files were unusable (i.e. only the 'comments' popup arose in the left down corner, but not the 'edit mode' popup). I had to add a new txt-file to be able to edit the file and copy the text.

I think this might have to do with the files being Windows txt-files and I'm trying to edit them on a IOS device, but still that should be able somehow as noone else is complaining about it anymore. Right?

iPhone SE, iOS 10.3.3, dropbox 64.2

I fetched my iPad to see if that has the same problem and it has

iPad Air, iOS 9.3.5, dropbox 64.2

I am behind my Windows computer now and just created a 4th txt-file with partly the same content to see if that has the same problem and it does, but I actually think I know what causes the problem, as all 3 files that can't be edited on the iPhone have some special characters on the first line so maybe that's causing this non-editable problem and you can look into that? Thanx!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ndu2aeie8p0ttz3/tryOut.txt?dl=0

Is there a FULL-SCREEN MODE on the iPad? It would be wonderful to edit text in full-screen (distraction-free) in Dropbox for iPad. (Have not tested on iPhone yet.)

Other than that. This app within an app is a terrific addition, and thank you for finally creating a text editor. It still amazes me Apple has not made an iOS text editor besides proprietary Apple Pages, which only saves in .pages and not TXT or RTF, and only uses iCloud. Shocking after all these years.

Thanks for catching the ball, Dropbox team!

After the latest update I am getting these yellow icons on top of my text in some PDF files. We are building several bridges this summer and I keep PDF files of the construction plans on my mobile devices for quick reference in the field. Now I can't read the dimension which are critical. How do I turn them off??

Oh my God, THANK YOU. I've been waiting for this feature for years. Having to edit hundreds of txts files located in many different folders, this really is a game changer. I've resorted to a bunch of third-party apps, in which I had to keep the files in the app folder, then create aliases to their corresponding folders, thus really complicating my workflow. So this is trully amazing!

Great feature! I've been waiting for this for years, using other solutions etc.

Suggestion: It would be perfet if it also worked on my markdown (.md) files!!