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Highlight text in Pages on iPhone

You can temporarily highlight text in the body of your document, in text boxes, and in shapes. This is helpful, for example, if you’re reviewing a document and want to call out certain parts. These highlights aren’t visible in printed documents. When multiple people are working on a document, each person’s highlights appear in a unique color.

Tip: If you want highlights in any color that are visible in your final document, add a background color to text.

You can highlight text everywhere except in charts and table cells.

Add a highlight: Select text, then tap Highlight.
Remove a highlight: Double-tap the highlighted text, then tap Remove Highlight.
Note: If the document is shared with others, only you and the document owner can delete your highlight. If someone else adds a comment to your highlight, the author name and color of the highlight changes to the comment’s author, and you can’t delete the comment.

Highlights added this way aren’t visible in printed or PDF documents. To add permanent highlights, see Add a background color to text.

To learn how to change your highlight color, see Set your author name for comments.

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Highlight text in Pages on iPhone

Add or remove a highlight

Add a comment to highlighted text