[DeArmin]

Hi - previously annotated text has somehow changed size/spacing and I can't get it back to how it was. I noticed it a couple of days ago. To my knowledge, I haven't changed anything.  Sorry so long ... 

Background: I'm using one of new ipad air 13" (on ios 17) since May. I transferred everything over from an old out-of-space Air 2 (on ios 15) and have been using MS 3.8.4 since that update came out. I just updated to 17.6, but I updated after I noticed this behavior.

Details: I have annotated many sheet music PDFs to make the lyrics and chords easier to read. I've spent many hours spacing the lyric syllables to match the existing ones, so each lines up with the note it goes with.

This has been working brilliantly for months, on the old ipad and the new one since May. I have had no issues with the font size changing, even when the ipad is rotated. I always play and sing from portrait view and usually keep the orientation locked (on the ipad itself, not in the app). On occasion, when the app has changed to landscape, the text adjusts and then adjusts back when "righted" back to portrait view.

A couple of days ago, I noticed that all of these texts are squished together, ending sooner than the actual music line. This is also affecting many songs in which I used text to write in the chords. (Songs on which I used chord stamps are not affected, just the lyrics in those cases.)  

What I just noticed, is that everything matches in landscape mode. So it seems to have stuck somehow, then shrinks down too much when trying to adjust back to portrait. Anyway, the lines on all songs are consistent in looking correct in landscape and looking too short in portrait.

Things I tried that did not work:
* I tried closing MS and reopening.
* Turned off ipad and back on. 
* I updated to 17.6.
* I did the advanced restore from a recent auto-backup.
(Unfortunately, I didn't have a recent manual backup and I would've lost quite a few songs that had been added and annotated.)
* I tried both checking and unchecking the "scale tool sizes in landscape orientation." I'm pretty sure it was checked as default.
* I tried unchecking auto size in the font setting popup, when selecting a textbox. 

It doesn't work to just change the font size to stretch the text out again. It's just not matching up, like I had it before, plus the font increases height-wise, as well, and doesn't fit well into the space between the staves. And the text box remains stretched out at the end and its not possible to resize it back to the text size, even with using the Pencil and dragging the endpoints. It tries to resize the entire text. I wish I had a record of what font size each of these songs was set to initially, to see if the number changed, but I don't. 

I have increased the font on a couple of songs and unchecked the auto-size button in the popup. As I said, it's not perfect, but at least it's closer in the ballpark to the right length. I'm afraid to change very many until I know what the issue is, because it could just keep changing on me. 

I don't understand how this could happen out of the blue, when there hasn't been any MS update. And it shouldn't be the ios update because it's been working fine, since May.

I was ready to post this question when I paused and tried some other things.

A few days ago I disabled the auto iCloud backups, so my devices aren't connected or syncing with each other. So I checked the older, smaller ipad. Fornuately, the songs look fine. I can rotate either way and they look great in both views. And I did notice that the auto-size box is unchecked in the text popup on it.

Although, I haven't updated it since using my larger newer device, and it's missing quite a few songs and annotations. I started embedding the annotations in each affected song that's available on it and uploading each song to google drive, so I can swap files on a good amount of them, if nothing else works.

Questions: 
If I back up an msb from Feb (my most recent), I will lose a lot of songs. If I leave it, I am going to have to redo every single line of lyrics on 80 songs and in addition, every line of chords as well on about 50 of those.

(If I do the backup of the Feb. msb and it's still messed up, can I redo by choosing the recent auto db again?)

If I copy one of the recent auto-backups to an outside location and reinstall MS, can the auto db be used to put the library back in place?

I saved msf setting files from each ipad, if it would help to look at those. Do you think it would work to save the older ipad's msf file onto the newer one with the problem?

Hi, I am having a similar issue with my Android devices.
I made various annotations with my tablet. When I use the backup on my mobile phone, most of them have gone. I wanted to put this up for discussion in the forum as well, but wanted to wait for the next update, maybe it's fixed there. Two sample photos attached. One from the tablet, the other from the mobile phone.