.text not updating on Android Phone

I'm having a strange issue, I'm dynamically changing a TextMeshProUGUI .text to generate a question and then saving that .text for later purposes to string, everything is working fine in the editor.

When I build the app to Android although the TextMeshProUGUI changes visually (I can see a new question in the text box), when I try to retrieve the .text and store it to string it only returns the default property that is set in the editor prior to play (some "Lorem Ipsum").

It's like it's returning a cached version of the .text and not the current version.

Unity 2018.3.0f2

 

Are you initially setting the text using the SetText() function?

If you are using the .SetText() function to set the text, the .text property is kept in sync in the editor but not at runtime since setting the .text property would result in allocations.

 

I wasn't, this indeed was the issue, thank you!