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Text disappeared and cannot add new text

  • August 14, 2026
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I have a lucid chart that had a full detail lineage of my data pipeline with hundreds of objects.  I used a custom image and labeled everything in the document with text - hundreds of text boxes.  After last weekend all of the text had disappeared in the visual on 3 tabs in my Lucid Chart - it only impacts these 3 tabs.    I have created a new chart and can add text, i am able to add text in one of the tabs that is not experiencing the issue.  I have done research online and have tried different browsers, tried incognito mode, confirmed the issue appears to others as well who I've shared the document with. I exported the most important impacted tab to a new lucid chart and the issue persisted in the new workbook.   If I export as PDF the text is missing, however if i export as CSV-Shape of Data, I can find my text labels embedded in the CSV - so i know they still exist.

 

My chart has a single layer, its not a “Send to front, send to back” issue. 

I have disabled the “WEB GL” rendering

I reviewed version history and the text is not visible in prior versions in version history.

If i double click to add new text, the cursor simply instantly appears and vanishes

If i drag the text box object into the chart it simply disappears

I was the owner and creator - does not seem to be a permissions issue

This only impacts 3 of 6 tabs in my document

 

I have many many hours of work into this document and do not want to have to recreate it from scratch, can you help me fix this? 

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Zuzia S
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  • Lucid community team
  • August 19, 2026

Hi ​@ndell, thank you for posting in the Community and I am sorry that you are experiencing this issue! I’ll be happy to help. 

Thank you for clarifying that you have attempted quite a few troubleshooting steps. 

Could you please try to duplicate the document and let me know if the issue persists in the copy? 

In case it does, could you share a temporary Document Support PIN for this document, as well as the numbers of the tabs in which the issue occurs? This will help me take a closer look at what’s going on. This PIN is safe to post in this thread because it is only accessible by members of the Lucid support staff. You can find steps for generating a Support PIN in this  Help Center article 

I appreciate your help and patience!