StephenBD

Doing things only in response to popular vote, @DTLow, is not a good policy.  We can see that in US and UK politics right now.  🙂 

The design worked fine before EN took an arbitrary decision to suddenly hide an important interface element several clicks deep.  I am guessing it was motivated by a desire to standardise between the iPad and iPhone versions even though there was ample screen-space on the iPad to keep these functions at the surface.  It was a silly decision that could easily, at the time, have been reversed. 

Thanks @PinkElephant.  Let's hope for the best in future.  🙂

I first flagged this problem in January 2017.  Now at last it has been solved.  Thank you, Evernote.

It should not take three and a half years for a bad initial decision to be reversed. It could have been fixed in the next release. 

Many thanks.  I feared as much... 

How are you hitting Tab on an iPad?  (Sorry if this is obvious and I am being stupid...)

Well, I suppose that's a step in the right direction...  (Well done and thank you jengagne for pursuing this).

An ongoing failure, yes.  This clunkiness in the UI inconveniences and annoys me every day - and I do use Evernote every day. 

I cannot believe that a simple remedy to this has not been provided in all this time.  Bad design, bad customer service.

Yes, invu798, I agree.  Bringing back the bullet buttons to the tool bar is a great restoration of something that went missing nearly a year ago. But we need buttons to indent and outdent bullets too.  Maybe Evernote are forgetting that people often use the soft keyboard on the iPad not a hardware keyboard with shortcuts, tab keys etc? 

If there is not enough space on some screens, bullet hierarchy could be implemented as a pop-up from the bullet button itself - press to see promote/demote options?