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Thanks for letting me know. I was not aware of this issue, but I could reproduce it in Textastic 6 on my iPhone.

If you do not need split view multitasking and do not have an iPad Pro or iPhone, Textastic 5 is a great product you bought and it still works perfectly fine.

I think this is out of the scope of a general text editor. You could consider using a web-based pretty printer and pasting the result into Textastic.

Thank you for purchasing Textastic 6.


Files and settings of Textastic 5 and Textastic 6 are stored in a shared app group container. This is a special directory that can be accessed by several apps from the same developer. App group containers are only deleted once all apps that use it are deleted from device.


So, it is safe to delete the old version of Textastic. As long as Textastic 6 stays on the device, your files won't be deleted. You can ignore the warning.

Textastic 6 is a new universal app that works on both iPad and iPhone: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1049254261?ct=feedback&at=11lNQP&pt=15967&mt=8

Hello, Textastic supports TextExpander: https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander-ios


Maybe you can use that to define snippets? After you have defined snippets in the TextExpander app, you can use "Update Snippets" in Textastic's settings screen to fetch the snippets and use them in Textastic.

Textastic 6 is the first paid upgrade since version 1.0 was released in 2010. Implementing split screen multitasking, making the app universal and supporting iPad Pro required a rewrite of large parts of the app. Charging for Textastic 6 allows me to continue to dedicate resources to improving it.


Let me explain why I didn't offer a discount for existing users:

The only reasonable way to offer upgrade discounts would have been to leave the previous versions of Textastic on the App Store and offer up to three upgrade bundles (iPad -> Universal, iPhone -> Universal, maybe iPhone+iPad -> Universal). Using "Complete my bundle", existing customer would have been able to get a discount.

While this may work if you know how the App Store works, I think it's too confusing - especially if you are a new customer who sees three versions of the app and up to three upgrade bundles when browsing the App Store. I'm sure people would buy the wrong bundle or wrong app or wouldn't buy at all because it's not easy to understand. Also, bundles were not really meant to be used like this by Apple. So I decided against doing that. I guess it's now too late anyway since many people already bought the new app at full price and I do not want to irritate anyone further.


If Apple supported proper update pricing, I would have loved to use that.