Today I updated to Obsidian 1.13.4 on my iPhone and noticed a bunch of accent colors were different shades of purple that didn’t match my theme or the original Obsidian theme at all.
I made sure everything was updated. I changed to the default Obsidian theme. I disabled the Style Settings plugin. I restarted my phone. I tried other custom themes. I reset my accent color to the Obsidian purple. I made the accent color a bunch of different colors. I fully uninstalled my custom theme. I deleted Obsidian, restarted my phone and then reinstalled Obsidian. I made a test vault in restricted mode with no plugins or themes. These colors are stuck at various shades of purple no matter what I do.
My custom theme is AnaPpuccin. On my desktop I use the “extended-themes” snippet to get the Solarized Dark palette. Because I can’t access the .obsidian folder on iOS to use the snippet, I had to manually override the default “Mocha” dark theme colors to match the Solarized Dark palette using Style Settings. When I turned off my Style Settings plugin during troubleshooting, I noticed the new purple accents sort of fit the “Mocha” palette? I don’t know if the AnaPpuccin “Mocha” palette got stuck during the 1.13.4 update and just overrode my Style Settings plugin selections and now they won’t change to anything else?? I just want the colors back to normal.
My iPad is still on 1.12.7 and the accent colors work as expected. I updated my desktop (Linux, flatpak) to 1.13.4 but the accent colors work fine. Only My iPad and iPhone are synced through iCloud. I manually sync to my desktop.
Steps to reproduce
Have AnaPpuccin custom theme installed with #2AA198 accent color picked, manually override the “Mocha” dark theme colors in the Style Settings plugin with the Solarized Dark palette values from the extended-themes snippet
Update to Obsidian 1.13.4 on iPhone
Open the app
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Yes
Expected result
That the highlight/accent colors match the current theme and selected accent color
Actual result
Accent colors and callout background colors are just shades of purple, don’t fit theme/Style Settings plugin and aren’t related to any accent color I select
Environment
(Note: this is after I uninstalled, reinstalled Obsidian. No themes.)
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.4 (353)
API version: 1.13.4
Operating system: iOS 17.7.2 (Apple iPhone14,5)
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 4
Plugins enabled: 2
1: Notebook Navigator v3.3.0
2: Style Settings v1.0.9
Additional information
I sync my vault using iCloud
Here’s an image of the accent color I have selected, the highlight color that doesn’t match it, and all the incorrect callout background colors:
I didn’t know that. I followed the steps to debug as far as I know. I did everything I could think of. This problem isn’t solved for me, the app’s colors are still broken no matter what I do. In my post I said I even created a restricted mode new vault with no plugins and no themes and the color issue persisted through the default theme and resetting everything I could. In the screenshot I shared, that’s the default Obsidian theme with no themes selected and Style Settings disabled. As of right now, I have nothing customizing Obsidian on my iPhone. The color problem will not go away.
I don’t know why I cant edit my posts. The “AnaPpuccin” theme is old so I get it can break, but on my computer the “AnaPpucin” colors seemed fine even after updating to 1.13.4. The callouts still look OK and have the correct colors there depending on what I select. Nothing like what happened to all the colors on my phone has happened on my computer or my iPad (which I didn’t update to 1.13.4 as I said.)
I don’t want to spam but I made photos showing the difference of colors between my iPad (Obsidian 1.12.7) and my iPhone (updated to Obsidian 1.13.4). I labeled everything and I explain the state of the vaults EXACTLY as they are. There’s no community themes or plugins involved anymore. I just made these.
Here are the difference in callout colors with my iCloud synced vault:
Here are differences in accent colors with my iCloud synced vault. I would changed the color on my iPad then wait for it to update on my iPhone. They’re the same colors:
Last I again made a “sandbox” vault as I could do it on mobile. I made a LOCALLY STORED, NOT SYNCED “Testing” vault on both devices and made it exact between them. I compared the callout colors and accent color with tag again:
Exactly as I showed in the last picture in the reply before yours. On the left is the iPhone. That’s how it looks in a brand new local (no iCloud syncing) vault in Restricted Mode with no plugins/themes. I also just made a brand new “test” vault in iCloud and it’s the exact same appearance. No change.
I don’t think so. Is there any reason to? This color problem came with Obsidian 1.13.4 and never before that. I just updated Obsidian on my iPad to test if the colors would do the same exact thing and they did. Now my iPhone and iPad have Obsidian 1.13.4 with the same messed up colors.
I rather not have to update. I just tried a new vault on the iPad after updating to 1.13.4 and there was no change in the accent colors. Still messed up.
Here’s the debug info for my iPad in my main, actual vault:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.4 (353)
API version: 1.13.4
Operating system: iOS 17.7.2 (Apple iPad13,2)
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
And here’s the debug info for a brand new vault. As I said, no change to the colors at all:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.4 (353)
API version: 1.13.4
Operating system: iOS 17.7.2 (Apple iPad13,2)
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
Since version 1.13.4, the backgrounds of my “callout” blocks have a purple tint, just like for tsu41. I tested it in a brand-new vault, and the problem persists.
I’m on an iPad running iPadOS 17.7.11.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.4 (353)
API version: 1.13.4
Operating system: iOS 17.7.11 (Apple iPad Pro 10,5")
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
Have you updated your callout colors yet? Via Discord:
As a reminder, there is a breaking change with the 1.13 release today, with callouts and CSS. Please update accordingly when you can.
/* Previously callout colors expected an RGB triplet. */
--callout-color: 255,0,0;
/* Now any valid CSS color is valid */
--callout-color: #ff0000;
--callout-color: rgb(255,0,0);
The config ‘.obsidian’ folder can’t be accessed on iOS or iPadOS. But I’m confused why even default Obsidian colors are broken since I assume those CSS values should’ve been updated to work properly with the 1.13.4 changes?
@tsu41 My reply was for kv_db, but re-reading, they tried in a new vault as well, so there should be no need to adjust any custom callouts.
On iOS, you can use another app (Taio, Textastic, etc.) to access the .obsidian folder, but that doesn’t seem necessary here as you both tried in new vanilla vaults (no custom css, theme, or community plugins).
You both are using iPadOS 17.x, so maybe something to do with that.
