iOS Version 2025.1.2
Minor improvements
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
 
Liquid Glass design on macOS 26 Tahoe with a new app icon, transparent toolbar and floating sidebar. The app icon now also adapts to dark and tinted modes! Menu bar actions now include icons to make them easier to find at a glance.
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
macOS 26 will officially be released on Monday September 15th.
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar. The document browser has been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles.
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 iOS will officially be released on Monday September 15th.
*Writing tools requires iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and a device compatible with Apple Intelligence. Automatic language detection requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or newer. Support for Thai and Vietnamese requires iOS/iPadOS 17. Arabic requires iOS/iPadOS 18.
The OS requirements for languages available to OCR are the same, but the new languages and automatic language detection were already enabled.
Automatic language detection and support for more languages when using text recognition on images and tables (on Macs running macOS 13 Ventura or newer).
The new languages are: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Najdi)
Thai and Vietnamese Requires macOS 14 Sonoma. Arabic requires macOS 15 Sequoia.
The big iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 update combined with a completely new way of annotating using the Apple Pencil:
These new Apple Pencil features require an iPad running iPadOS 17.5 or newer. Hover preview works with any Apple Pencil except the 1st generation. The floating tool palette requires an Apple Pencil Pro or the Apple Pencil 2nd generation (with the Double-tap gesture in Highlights set to Tool Palette in Settings > Apple Pencil).
iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 iOS will officially be released on Monday September 16th.
macOS 14 Sonoma is out and Highlights is already fully compatible, but this update brings some major performance improvements:
The big iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 update with support for widgets and shortcuts! Scan documents faster by launching directly into the document scanner using all these new ways:
The new Shortcut action is available on devices running iOS and iPadOS 16, but the new widgets require iOS and iPadOS 17 which will officially be released on Monday September 18th.
Highlights can now automatically OCR documents:
Smart OCR requires macOS 13 Ventura or later and works with English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ukrainian text on hardware that supports Live Text.
Highlights can now scan and OCR documents:
These features require iOS/iPadOS 16 or later. Smart OCR works with English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Ukrainian text on hardware that supports Live Text.
The macOS 13 Ventura update! Bringing the Mac version up to speed by adding a lot of highly requested features:
The big iPadOS 16 update! A whole new design optimized for Stage Manager and customizable toolbars:
In iPadOS 16 you can also collaborate on PDF documents via iCloud links. Just share the document and select Collaborate instead of Send Copy. The documents show up in the new Shared-tab in the document browser. Tapping on the “Shared with You”-button below the document in the document browser will take you directly to the conversation where the document was shared in Messages or Mail.
The big iOS 16 update! A whole new design for iPhone to bring even more functionality within reach:
In iOS 16 you can also collaborate on PDF documents via iCloud links. Just share the document and select Collaborate instead of Send Copy. The documents show up in the new Shared-tab in the document browser. Tapping on the “Shared with You”-button below the document in the document browser will take you directly to the conversation where the document was shared in Messages or Mail.
The feature requires iOS/iPadOS 15 and works with the system supported languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin - China mainland), Chinese (Mandarin - Taiwan), English (US), English (UK), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain).
Please reinstall the AppleScript in Preferences → Export → “Install DEVONthink Script” to use DEVONthink page links in the exported files.
This version of Highlights drops support for 10.9 to enable use of new interface frameworks in OS X.