Procreate resetting default & custom brush settings after latest update? Here's the official word

Procreate lets you create high-quality artwork with breathtaking filters and a library of thousands of importable brushes. The brushes range anywhere from basic sketching to calligraphy.

The app has got an update that includes a Gallery Preview feature that brings your artwork to life as a 3D animated preview, as well as better Brush Cursor outline options to enhance blending.

However, with this update Procreate started resetting default brush settings which has not gone down well with its users (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8).

The default brush settings worked well for graphic designers in the previous version, so they never bothered changing them.

However, this update changed the settings, forcing users to adjust their long-standing painting habits, which is inconvenient.

@Procreate Literally what happened it looks like everyone’s brushes reset within the last 25 minutes???
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hey Procreate ! since the update a lot of my brushes have either disappeared or are upside down 😱 is anyone else experiencing this ? my favorite brushes no longer “feel” the same.
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Procreate support has acknowledged this issue and has clarified that this was an intentional change as it was necessary for the introduction of the ‘Brush Studio’ feature:

We’ve had to reset all default brushes due to additional settings introduced in Brush Studio. However, this shouldn’t have moved your custom brushes. Have all of your custom brushes been affected by this or just particular ones?
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However, illustrators are reporting that their custom brush settings are getting affected as well (1,2,3,4,5).

The custom settings are based on the default brush settings. So when the developers made the tweaks to the default settings, that in turn affected the custom settings.

This problem has severely impacted designers who were in the middle of a project since their specific settings were abruptly reset with this update.

Users have to manually adjust the settings to restore everything to its previous state, which is quite inconvenient for them.

i just opened up @Procreate for the first time today only to find out that all my brush configurations ive had for years has been reset??? i just used it last night too? :(((
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Help? I opened procreate and my folder of brushes just reset on their own into the default settings and sort order, and my size pins just disappeared. How do i get my favorite lineart brush back 🙁
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The support team is shocked to see this change affecting custom settings as it was only meant to reset default settings.

Some have even requested the ability to use the legacy brush settings so that they may choose whatever they like.

We hope that developers will quickly fix the problem so that designers may resume sketching. When they do, we will update this article accordingly, so stay tuned.

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