Welcome to the new Whiteboard!

The "Ink to Shape" feature is dreadful. I've just started Microsoft Whiteboard for the first time in a couple of weeks, and now have this version:

Microsoft Whiteboard

21.11026.108

Windows App Version: 51.0.137.0

 

Compared to the old version, recognition of shapes has fundamental problems, in particular:

• having to hold the pen on the graphics tablet for ~0.5s for the app to recognise a shape is slow, unintuitive and inefficient. In the old version you finish drawing the shape and lift the pen and the shape is (much of the time) recognised; it worked fairly well
• once a shape IS recognised, lifting the pen off the graphics tablet, in my experience, results in the shape getting rotated

These are just my initial thoughts; while some nice features have been added, this functionality, to me, is broken and I've just wasted a load of time trying to work out how to get the shape recognition to work in the first place and also trying to find out if there's any way to avoid the shape rotating when I lift off (I haven't managed that bit) so I'll be looking at reverting to the old version until it's fixed.