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Mosa Turman
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January 18, 2026
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eyedropper+Shift converting text to shape error

  • January 18, 2026
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So when I'm trying to capture the locked text color to recolor another text or shape with the eyedropper tool, it creates outlined layers of the text I'm trying to capture the color from (and keeps the original text there), what is this exactly???

* It most likely to happen when the whole layer is locked (not on the object only).

    Correct answer Harshika Verma

    @Mosa Turman Thanks for discovering this bug!


    Hi Mosa Turman,

     

    Thank you for your patience. The team has actually verified a fix for this bug, which will be available to you all in the upcoming releases. 

    Please stay tuned to this page for final updates.

     

    Thanks,

    Harshika

    4 replies

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 20, 2026

    Hi everyone,

     

    Thanks for sharing your testing, observations, and for confirming this behavior across versions. I'm checking this with the product team so they can review it further, and I'll keep you all posted here as soon as I have an update.

     

    Appreciate everyone taking the time to dig into this.

    Abhishek

    Egor Chistyakov
    Egor Chistyakov
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2026

    The team has acknoledged the problem and is going to look into it.

    The UV report

      Ton Frederiks
      Community Expert
      Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 19, 2026

      Good to hear that.

      Kurt Gold
      Community Expert
      Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2026

      Just to confirm Ton's conclusion: It's a bug.

       

      And obviously a terrible one that was probably introduced in Illustrator 30.1.

       

      The bug does not occur in version 29.8.2.

        Ton Frederiks
        Community Expert
        Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 18, 2026

        Looks like the bug was introduced with the new color picker sampling ring.

        Kurt Gold
        Community Expert
        Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 18, 2026

        Agreed, but the bug also appears when the ring is disabled in the application preferences.

         

        Even worse.

        Ton Frederiks
        Community Expert
        Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 18, 2026

        @Mosa Turman that looks like a bug. It is easy to replicate with a locked layer and just dragging the eyedropper while holding down the Shift key. It will create multiple outlined groups.

        You may want to create a bug report here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

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