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I really love the Noir app and use it on many sites to darken the glaring white screens. However since ios 18 I’ve encountered several issues. I use a Magic Keyboard with my iPad Pro and have always used the keyboard shortcut key combo - control/option/N - to enable or disable Noir on specific sites. That now still works on a few sites, but does not on most that I have recently tried it on. I thought initially that it was an issue with the keyword or ipad itself until I found one or two sites where the combo did trigger Noir controls. Since it does work on a couple sites it may be a Safari or site issue, but I rarely if ever ran into the problem pre-18.

Thinking I could some how work around this I added a Noir function to Control Center however I’ve not found that to work on any site. Then there are a few sites that I’ve recently been on that loaded erratically or not at all when I had Noir enabled. That’s not really unusual as some sites will always present a problem for it occasionally. But the keyboard shortcut issue is my main complaint. I can use the extensions control in the address bar to enable or disable Noir for a site, which is what I do on my phone but having a keyboard in use with my ipad is what I would prefer to use.
 
Just email the dev. He's pretty responsive.
I have but no response as yet. It’s interesting that I have the macOS version of Noir on my MacBook Air and those key combos work every time, so this seems to be an ios issue but why it works on a few sites but not on others is odd.
 
Hmm, the website-settings keyboard shortcut in Noir isn't working on my MBP but Default Setting shortcut seems to work. I don't use it really at all so not sure if it's because of the latest update or if it has been around a while.
 
If I need to disable or enable it for a specific site I have to go to the address bar and use the extension on my iPad, that works properly as it does on my phone. On my MBA the keyboard shortcuts work. I’m not on any current beta on any device but all the current iOS 18 and Sequoia macOS releases.
 
Thanks for the update. Looking forward to when 18.2 RC releases in a couple weeks.
He was having me to go to some test web site and give him the numbers that registered when using the key combos. Apparently there is some software issue between the external keyboard and the ipad in 18/18.1 but appears fixed in 18.2.
 
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