It is launch day for iPhone Duo and the start of a new chapter for productivity on a phone. The aspect ratio of the iPhone Duo makes it ideal for working with PDF documents and Highlights has been updated to take advantage of the space edge-to-edge. Unfold the iPhone Duo and the document opens like a book going from single-page to two-page layout automatically. Or use the additional screen real estate to compare two documents side-by-side. Download Highlights 2026.3 to try it out.

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Today Apple released iOS, iPadOS and macOS 27 with major performance improvements and several new features. Highlights is ready with support for Siri AI, a refined Liquid Glass design, resizable iPhone Mirroring and annotation comment icons. Update your devices and download Highlights 2026.2 to take full advantage of the new features.

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Today iOS, iPadOS and macOS were all bumped to version 26 and released at the same time, bringing the new Liquid Glass design everywhere. Highlights is ready with an all new design with floating sidebars, transparent toolbars and all new app icons. The new design language brings iOS, iPadOS and macOS closer together and the iPad version should now be even more familiar to people coming from the Mac, with similar navigation, menu bar and freely resizable windows. Update your devices and download Highlights 2025.1 to take full advantage of the new features.

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The big iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 update is here with support for dark and tinted app icons, Control Center widgets, and a whole new way of annotating using the Apple Pencil. Launch directly into the document scanner from the Control Center or use it instead of the torchlight and camera controls on your Lock Screen. Power up your Apple Pencil with hover previews and the new floating tool palette that appears on squeeze. Update your devices and download Highlights 2024.1 to take full advantage of the new features.

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iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 are here and include support for widgets and shortcuts in a bunch of new places! Scan documents faster by launching directly into the document scanner from widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and even StandBy. You can also run the Scan & OCR Document shortcut from the Shortcuts app, through Spotlight search or by asking Siri. Update your devices and download Highlights 2023.2 to take full advantage of the new features.

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Highlights has always strived to be a desktop-class app for the iPad, but with the improvements in iPadOS 16 we have pushed it to a whole new level. Customizable toolbars and document menus make powerful actions easily accessible. The new thumbnail sidebar and inline search makes navigating your documents a breeze. And Stage Manager lets you multitask like never before. Update to iPadOS 16 and Highlights 2022.6 to take your productivity to the next level.

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Highlights has been redesigned to take full advantage of the new features of iOS 16. The toolbars have been optimized for reachability and more functionality is exposed through modern menus. Update to Highlights 2022.5 to take full advantage of the new features.

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iOS and iPadOS 15 is here and Highlights is ready. Features like Quick Note and Live Text alone makes this a worthy upgrade, but there are lots of usability improvements, especially for iPad users. Update to Highlights 2021.2 to take full advantage of the new features.

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Highlights 2021.1.2 brings some important changes to keyboard shortcuts on iPadOS. These features bring keyboard shortcuts closer to parity with macOS in both terms of functionality and discoverability, but some of the changes will manifest first in the fall with the release of iPadOS 15.

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macOS 11 Big Sur is here with a new design language and support for a new generation of Macs based on Apple Silicon. We used this occasion to redesign Highlights to make it feel right at home on Big Sur, but also bring some of this thinking to iOS and iPadOS.

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iOS and iPadOS 14 is here and so is a big new update for Highlights with a highly requested feature: color palettes. With color palettes you can change the colors used when annotating PDFs. You can also show the annotation colors in your notes - giving them a whole new look.

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Say hello to the all new Highlights - now available on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Three new apps being released at once. You can download them all and start using them for free today from the App Store:

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Highlights has not seen any updates in the last year and many of you have been rightfully concerned about the future of this app. However, if you came here looking for bad news, I will have to disappoint you. Highlights is live and well with several exciting things on the horizon, none of them being a sunset.

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