Markup

How to use your iPhone or iPad to sketch in Mac documents

You can easily draw or sketch with your finger and Apple Pencil on your iPhone or iPad. But since your MacBook or Mac desktop lacks a touchscreen, it isn't possible to sketch directly on them.

Thankfully, the Continuity feature lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a wireless drawing board for your Mac. After that, anything you sketch there will appear on your Mac. This tutorial will walk you through all the steps to do that.

How to use Smart Annotations in Pages on iPhone and iPad

Use Smart Annotations Pages iPhone

Annotating documents in a digital form can be tricky. In many cases, when you make edits to the page, your markups become orphaned and you have to move them back. To eliminate this problem, Apple introduced Smart Annotations for Pages in iOS 11.3.

What’s great about Smart Annotations is that your markups stay with your text. And you can use either your Apple Pencil or your finger to mark up documents on your iPhone or iPad.

If you haven’t tried out this feature yet, our tutorial shows you how to use Smart Annotations in Pages on iOS.

How to markup and annotate your photos on iPhone or iPad

Markup tools for Photos on iPhone

The built-in Photos, Mail, Notes, Messages, Books, and Files app let you annotate and doodle on pictures using Markup tools.

You can use a pen, highlighter, and pencil tools to draw or write on them. You can also add shapes, arrows, text, lines, signature, speech bubbles, magnify a part, and more.

This comprehensive tutorial shows you how to use the built-in drawing tools to Markup photos on your iPhone and iPad.

How to annotate email attachments in iOS with Markup

One of the major features that shipped with iOS 9 was Markup, better known for the ability to draw on and annotate attachments of various file types that you receive in the Mail app and then send them back to the original sender, or someone else for that matter.

Despite how useful this feature is, few people actually use it, either because they don't know it exists or they don't know how to access it. In this tutorial, we'll take you through how to access it and cover some of the features it provides.

iOS 9 includes Markup feature to let you annotate email attachments

Similar to a feature that first made its way to the Mail app under OS X Yosemite, iOS 9 now includes Markup, a tool that lets you annotate email attachments, including image files as well as PDFs, effectively turning the Mail app into a more powerful one with a growing focus on productivity.

Just like its OS X counterpart, Markup for iOS 9 allows you to sketch, zoom, add text, and sign documents on the go. Absent from the list of annotations is the Shape button, which lets you easily insert squares, circles, etc.

Markup for iOS 9 works for both incoming or outgoing attachments, meaning that you can annotate either the attachments you receive, or those that you send. This seems to actually go hand in hand with another new iOS 9 feature that lets you attach documents from iCloud Drive.