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Markup not saving annotations on iPad PDFs

when I markup files or PDFs in the files app on my iPad, using iCloud Drive, sometimes the highlights don’t save and sometimes they do. I can’t see any sort of save feature and I don’t understand why this is happening.

iPad, iPadOS 13

Posted on Sep 7, 2020 11:45 AM

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Posted on Sep 7, 2020 11:47 AM

i think I figured it out... I would have the highlight button open the whole time, including when I exited the pdf. It seems like if you close out of the markup menu and highlight tooltip, then it will say “saving file”


in short ... exit whatever markup menu you are using to save.

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Sep 7, 2020 11:47 AM in response to krymgr

i think I figured it out... I would have the highlight button open the whole time, including when I exited the pdf. It seems like if you close out of the markup menu and highlight tooltip, then it will say “saving file”


in short ... exit whatever markup menu you are using to save.

Markup not saving annotations on iPad PDFs

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