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How to Unhighlight Text in a PDF on iPhone

Download Highlights for free. Not on an iPhone? Checkout the Mac and iPad guides.

1. Open the PDF document in Highlights

Tap the PDF you want to open in the Highlights document browser:

iPhone displaying Highlights document browser

The PDF opens full screen:

iPhone displaying a PDF document open in Highlights

2. Tap on the highlighted text you want to unhighlight

This will bring up the annotation popover:

Annotation popover

3. Tap the trash button in the annotation popover

The highlight is removed from the PDF and the highlighted text and any attached comment no longer appears in your notes.

If you instead want to highlight a different part of the text you can follow this guide.