How to highlight ibooks pdf?

The nice thing about making highlights and notes in Books is that those items sync with other devices where you sign in to Books with the same Apple ID. So you can make notes in Books on your iPhone when you’re out and about and then have them handy when you get home to work on your Mac.

If you haven’t used these features before, we’re here to help. Here’s how to use highlights and notes in Apple Books.

Here’s a summary of the sections we’ll cover in this tutorial, so you can jump to a specific spot if you like.

Open the book on your iPhone or iPad in the Books app and then follow these steps to add or remove highlights:

Open the Books app on your iPhone or iPad to the book where you want to add or delete notes and then do one of the following.

Alternatively, you can select Highlight from the shortcut menu, choose Add Note, and type your note.

In Books, notes are associated with highlights. So you can either remove both or just the note itself:

Any highlights or notes that you add in Books on iOS will appear in the same place. Here’s how to access them:

Open the Books app on your Mac to the book where you want to add or remove highlights, then do one of the following:

Alternatively, you can pick Edit > Highlight and pick a color from the menu bar.

If you want to delete a highlight in Apple Books later, this is super easy.

Select any part of the highlighted text and click Remove Highlight from the shortcut menu.

Open the Books app on your Mac to the book where you want to add or delete notes and then do one of the following:

1) Select the spot in the book where you want to add the note.

2) Right-click or hold the control key and click to display the shortcut menu. Pick Add Note.

Alternatively, you can select text and click Edit > Add Note from the menu bar.

3) When the tiny window opens, type in your note. Click Done to close its window.

You’ll see a marker (tiny square icon) in the book where you added the note.

Notice that the note you add also adds a highlight to the text in the same color. You can change the note and highlight color by opening the shortcut menu again and picking a different one.

To delete a note and/or its corresponding highlight, right-click/control-click the text that the note is attached to and when the shortcut menu displays, select either Remove Note or Remove Highlight & Note.

Keep in mind that if you only choose to Remove Note, that highlight will remain attached to the text.

Any highlights or notes that you add in Books on Mac will appear in the same place.

Move your cursor to the top of the Books window to open the controls menu.

Click the Show highlights and notes button on the left. You’ll see a list of highlights and notes along with the page numbers.

When you finish, just click the Show Notes button in the controls menu to close the list.

• To add a bookmark, tap the top right of the page. To remove a bookmark, tap the top right again.
• To highlight text, touch and hold the word. To select more than one word, use the blue sliders. select a highlight color. To remove a highlight, tap the highlighted text Remove .