• It's frustrating when Canva won't let you edit the text in a shared design because you don't have permission to edit.
• The design owner has to give you the rights to edit the Canva design, otherwise, you're stuck.
• Another reason for this problem is that you might have signed in to a personal Canva account instead of the team's account.

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Canva is a freemium online graphic design tool you can use to create posters, presentations, and social media posts. Individuals and teams can use Canva. But sometimes, users find it annoying that Canva won’t let them edit text.

Aside from not being able to edit the text in Canva, they have challenges with the background remover not working correctly.

This post will discuss why you can’t edit the text in Canva and how to unlock text in this app.

What can I do if Canva won’t let me edit the text?

1. Change Design permissions

Select Share from the menu bar above the editor.

Click on the dropdown arrow to choose who you want to share with; select Only people added can access or Anyone with the link.

On the dropdown menu on the right, choose the permission you want to give, and you can set it to view, edit, or comment.

Select the Copy link.

If you can’t edit a text in a Canva design, perhaps the owner of the designer didn’t give you edit access.

When you work in a team, the team leader or the design owner can choose who can edit or view a design. So if you can’t edit, it means you don’t have that permission.

First, you can ask the owner to re-share the design and give you edit access permission.

2. Unlock the design to unlock the text box

Click the element with the text box you want to unlock. You can also hold Shift on your keyboard and click on multiple elements to select them.

The design owner gives you access to a design in Canva, but you can’t edit the text box. This happens when the text box is locked with the design. You can select the group element and follow the procedure.

3. Share the design to the correct team

Select your profile icon from the homepage or the Menu.

You can’t edit the text in Canva because the design owner shared it with a team and not a personal account.

4. Change the fonts within the design

Create and share a copy of the design and replace the custom font with a standard Canva font.

Sometimes, you can’t edit a text in a Canva design because some of the font settings are unavailable. This happens when Canva tries to create an editable version of a pdf or a JPEG you’ve uploaded.

Canva greyed out specific fonts on the shared design because they may not be available for your subscription plan.

You can request the design owner to do any of the above solutions for you to be able to edit the text in the design.

If these methods are not working, you recommend installing or reinstalling the desktop version using a new user name.

If you’ve been experiencing an error code 500 while loading Canva, we’ve put together an in-depth guide to help you resolve the error.

Which of the above solutions helped you fix the issue? Let us know in the comments below.

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