Thank you for taking the time to investigate, it must have been my fault, not quite sure how I managed to do that but will look more carefully when I save a file in future.
Have tried again, restarted iPad etc. Also remade kml's that were causing trouble. Some files will redisplay but others won't (the won't is only iPad mini 5). ALL files display perfectly on iPhone, laptop and desktop (both Win 11) and other peoples iPhones or Android devices. It's only the unecessarily complicated update to the iPad GE that's causing problems. Is there anyway to roll back the update?
File was created by EarthPoint Excel to KML. The files have ALWAYS been visible with no problem on laptop, desktop, iPhone and iPad Mini. It is only the updated GE on iPad Mini that is giving the problem. I didn’t want it updated, it just did it without asking. The problem is with update, NOT the file.
Have found the layers menu and put the layer in ‘Reference projects’ and turned layer on. It now shows the eye/crossed out eye but toggling this STILL doesn’t make the layer visible. When is this coding error going to be corrected?
Have read the link but GE has been changed so much that it’s a struggle to find the ‘Layers’ menu. I sincerely hope that the iPhone GE is not updated as this is what all members of Clocaenog Red Squirrels Trust use to locate our 90 odd trail cams in the forest. Why make something perfectly useable awkward/near impossible to use. I’m sure the coders can navigate their way around the new GE but why on Earth don’t they try it on normal users before releasing into the wild?
I found that you could access the ‘eye’ icon but it still made no difference to the files visibility if it was crossed out or open. How can that be sensible? Earth was perfectly useable before the update but is now useless.
Thank you, I suspected that the app was the answer. Thanks but no thanks I normally avoid any Google product like the plague, the only reason in this case is the trust I volunteer for uses Google.