TextMeshPro GUI text disappear after build

Unity Engine
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What I see in Unity:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VDN9qdHhCURBgG4E6

What I get after build:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/a7yGcMekEM6PXjUq7

TextMeshPro ui text disappears
Text Mesh Pro Issue
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In which version of Unity are you getting this behavior?

On what platform are you getting this?

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I do not expect any reply during holidays. Well, Merry Christmas!

Unity 2018.2.6f1, Windows 7.

And I just find that the text actually hide by the blue plane objects, because I can see the text when I move the camera such that no blue plane behind the camera in build version.

How come TMP GUI can be block by objects in scene? I am sure they are TMP UI, not the other TMP objects.

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Please double check that you are in fact using all TextMeshProUGUI objects and not a mixture of and objects where they would share the same material. If this is the case, please be sure to create a separate set of material presets for the normal TMP objects and one for those TMP UGUI objects.

Text objects can still appear behind objects depending on the Canvas Render Modes.

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Hi @Stephan_B ! I am affected by this bug in Unity 2023.1.28f1. I do not use TextMeshPro at all, but I have tons of TextMeshProUGUI components. My app uses two canvases - one in ‘camera’ mode and one in ‘overlay’ mode.

Many iOS users reported to me that all the texts get invisible in the popups (canvas with overlay mode). I have never experienced this with my iphones, but it seems to be a problem for many users. I am literally unable to reproduce this, not on devices, not in the editor.

Do you have any advice for me? My canvases share a lot of prefabs, it would be very hard for me to use separate font assets for each canvas.

I do some tweens on ui elements sometimes, like scaling, coloring etc.
Can this be a problem?

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So this is how my screen is supposed to look like:

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and this is what happens to it (sent to me by user)
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You can see that all TextMeshProUGUI components disappeared. The one that’s left (showing “12”) is a regular Text component.

  • This only happens in Canvas with Overlay mode

  • There is a second canvas (camera mode) available in my scene which is not affected

  • I am unable to reproduce it on my iPhone (can be device specific?)

  • Users report that when this bug happens, restarting the app does not help

  • I do not use TextMeshPro component. Only TextMeshProUGUI. Ocaasionally “Text”

  • All TextMeshProUGUI components share the same font asset

Should I migrate all texts on Overlay canvas from TextMeshProUGUI to Text? This will be LOTS of work. And isn’t Text deprecated?

What can I do to eliminate this? Please help, I’m out of ideas and I cannot reproduce this bug on my devices :frowning:

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Did you solve this? I’m in the same situation, text dissapear randomly and I am unable to reproduce in any of my devices.