This update improves reliability, performance, search behavior, forms, and rendering — especially for large or complex PDFs. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improved responsiveness when creating or updating annotations in complex documents, such as building plans. • Improved searching in very large documents: searches are less likely to run out of memory, and the app now lets you know when results may be incomplete. • Added support for editing rotated text form fields while keeping their displayed orientation correct. • Fixed a crash that could happen when returning to the app while a popover, such as the annotation inspector or outline, was open. • Fixed pages shifting unexpectedly when showing or hiding the interface in some situations. • Fixed the Clear Field button staying disabled for some choice form fields. • Fixed unreliable two-finger scrolling while a text markup tool was active. • Fixed some PDFs with CMYK colors and transparency rendering with washed-out colors. • Fixed unchecked radio buttons sometimes appearing as squares or disappearing after saving. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

PDF Viewer 2026.8 improves stability and responsiveness when working with large or complex documents, and fixes several issues around forms, search, annotations, and rendering. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improved responsiveness when creating or updating annotations in complex documents, such as building plans. • Improved stability when searching very large documents. If a search needs to stop early because the device is running low on memory, PDF Viewer now keeps the partial results and makes this clearer. • Fixed some CMYK PDFs with blended transparency rendering washed out. • Fixed document pages shifting when showing or hiding the user interface in some environments. • Fixed two-finger scrolling being unreliable while a text markup annotation tool is active. • Fixed the Clear Field button not being available for certain choice fields in PDF forms. • Added support for editing rotated PDF text form fields in 90-degree increments. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

This update improves performance and stability with large documents, makes annotation editing more reliable, and fixes issues with rendering, search, forms, and page management. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improved performance and memory usage when opening and viewing large or complex PDFs. • Better stability when working with documents that contain many large images. • Fixed cases where very large images could cause the app to close while viewing a document. • Fixed a crash that could happen when changing the thumbnail filter while rotating pages. • Fixed a freeze that could occur when typing quickly into callout annotations. • Fixed a hang that could happen when updating certain form fields. • Fixed page margin changes on PDFs with offset page areas. • Fixed some links that could cause a crash when opening certain documents. • Fixed some PDFs showing thin white or colored lines in smooth background areas. • Fixed colors appearing too dark or washed out in some documents with transparency effects. • Fixed incorrect characters appearing when editing text in some PDFs. • Fixed symbols, such as bullets, sometimes showing as the wrong character. • Improved search and text selection accuracy in documents with unusual text encoding. • Fixed crashes when opening or saving images with damaged metadata. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

This update improves performance with large documents, makes free text annotations more reliable, and fixes several issues with search, content editing, and page management. This version of PDF Viewer requires iOS 17 or later. Here’s the full list of changes: • Faster, more responsive document info for large or complex PDFs. • Free text annotations stay in place more accurately when you tap them or leave edit mode without changes. • Emoji in free text annotations now render without clipping. • Bold and italic now apply to the entire selection when editing text, even in documents with limited embedded fonts. • Search now finds partial word matches when your query contains punctuation like &, /, :, or +. • Removing a note from a highlight or other markup now sticks after exporting and re-importing. • Reordering pages now saves reliably in PDFs that use custom page labels. • More accurate measurement snapping on pages with offset crop areas. • Form field actions now run correctly even when another text field is being edited. • Tidied up the color picker in the free text editing toolbar. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Improved performance, rendering, and annotation reliability in complex documents. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improves responsiveness when working with complex documents, including large files and documents under memory pressure. • Improves performance for PDFs with large page content. • Improves stability and memory usage when applying redactions to complex documents. • Fixes issues affecting free text annotation editing, annotation color controls, and signature drawing in some configurations. • Fixes visual issues affecting highlights, annotation blend modes, redaction overlay text, and dark mode signatures. • Fixes corrupted rendering and garbled text in certain PDFs with complex images or shared font resources. • Fixes incorrect text selection and highlighting for some ligatures. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Improved forms, editing, and annotation reliability in complex documents. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improves form interaction responsiveness in complex documents. • Improves content editing in some accessible PDFs. • Fixes an issue where some PDFs with problematic form elements could fail to open correctly. • Fixes an issue where some form fields were not loaded correctly in certain documents. • Fixes issues affecting text styling, text placement, and multiline text annotations in some PDFs. • Fixes visual issues affecting redactions, highlights, and note annotation placement in certain documents. • Improves reliability when saving edited documents. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Improved text, search, and annotation reliability in complex documents. Here’s the full list of changes: • Fixes text highlights looking incorrect when created on lines with large horizontal gaps. • Improves searching in indexed documents when the search term includes special characters such as &, /, :, or +. • Improves navigation from links and outlines in very large documents. • Fixes an issue where editing text could fail in some documents with embedded fonts. • Fixes an issue where text extraction could be incomplete in certain documents using Type 3 fonts. • Fixes an issue that could affect saving annotations in documents with unresolved external link destinations. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

More natural drawing when signing and various fixes. Here’s the full list of changes: • Drawing signatures now uses a more natural drawing style. • Fixes bookmark indicator not displaying the bookmarked state correctly. • Fixes a crash in Document Editor when rapidly modifying document pages on large documents. • Fixes text selection not working while annotating using Apple Pencil. • Fixes the page rendering progress indicator sometimes not appearing. • Improves display of JavaScript alert messages. • Fixes execution of OpenAction JavaScript. • Fixes an issue where certain typographic ligatures (ti, ct, ck) would appear as garbled text when copying. • Fixes crash when flattening PDF with note annotations that contain missing character glyphs. • Fixes cut-off for last line of plain text annotations. • Fixes rendering of special Unicode characters in text form fields. • Fixes overlaps for highlight annotations in texts with small line heights. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Various fixes and performance improvements. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds a progress indicator (spinner) to the outline view. • Improves the appearance of highlight annotations with small line heights by not doubling the fill where adjacent lines overlap. • Improves time to see page content in documents with large outlines. • Improves performance when opening documents, which will be noticeable when there are thousands of pages or annotations. • Fixes an issue where unrelated text was added to automatically detected links. • Fixes an issue where the font bounding box could be written incorrectly. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Adds support for fractional values in measurement scale and calibration inputs. [Pro] • Improves responsiveness in complex documents. • Improves performance when opening documents with very large numbers of pages and using automatic double-page mode. • Improves text rendering in some documents with invalid font descriptors. • Fixes a crash when navigating to a page with a page-open trigger action that goes to the same page or loops through a cycle of pages. • Fixes crashes that could occur when using Document Editor. • Fixes the eraser tool sometimes appearing to not erase after scrolling back to a page with ink annotations. • Fixes a crash when redacting form fields. [Pro] • Fixes some invalid documents not appearing correctly. • Fixes freezes that could occur when opening certain invalid documents. • Fixes ligature character coordinates in text selection in some documents. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

AI Assistant (Beta): Ask questions about your documents using Apple Intelligence. AI Assistant processes your documents and questions entirely on your device, ensuring your data stays private. Available on iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds AI Assistant (Beta). • Adds a glass background to the page label, document label, inline search results, back and forward navigation buttons, redaction info button, and measurement scales button on iOS 26. • Adds support for preserving accessibility tags when using Content Editor. • Updates the look of the custom stamps and security screens. • Improves text rendering and font selection when working with PDFs with missing embedded fonts. • Improves rendering of dashed lines. • Improves support for using embedded fonts with Content Editor. • Fixes the annotation inspector resizing when the color picker for selecting colors is shown, which sometimes caused issues with it expanding too much. • Fixes a regression in handling free objects in the xref table. • Fixes an issue where CapHeight wasn't added when embedding files. • Fixes a crash when navigating to a page with a page-open trigger action that goes to the same page or loops through a cycle of pages. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Improves the appearance of dashed lines. • Improves support for fonts in Content Editor. [Pro] • Improves UI responsiveness in complex documents when trackpad or mouse hover occurs over a page that is still loading. • Improves the search bar appearance when search is active in the annotation list or outline list. • Fixes document tabs showing too close to the edge of the screen on iPhone in landscape. • Improves accessibility support when working with annotations. When adding or flattening annotations in a document that already supports PDF/UA (the accessibility standard for PDFs), the app now preserves accessibility information by inserting the necessary tags. This helps maintain PDF/UA compliance and improves compatibility with assistive technologies in other PDF readers. • Fixes an issue where certain Arabic fonts (for example, Noto Kufi) didn't render text correctly. • Fixes some outline elements being lost after editing documents with broken outline references. • Fixes bookmarks being removed from the original page after duplicating a page in Document Editor. A bookmark won’t be added to the newly created page. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Ready for the new design in an upcoming operating system version. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds support for pop ups morphing from buttons with the new design. • Adds more items to the menu for selected annotations to suit the expanding menus with the new design. • Adds the new design to the bar above the keyboard when editing forms. • Improves the appearance of the annotation inspector to more closely match default system UI in both the old and new designs. • Improves the appearance of the search bar with the new design. • Improves the layout of the Clear Field and Done buttons when a form element is selected so that Done is on the trailing side. • Improves responsiveness when resizing the window (such as on device rotation) with complex documents when no annotations are selected. • Updates the glassy background of the top toolbar, tabs, annotation toolbar, document editor toolbar and page scrubber page. • Changes toolbars to use black or white instead for buttons, to match the new design. • Changes menu items on to use a title instead of images as the horizontal bar menu can be expanded into a full menu. • Updates the selection indication of some buttons to fit better with the new design. • Updates Done and Cancel buttons to use checkmarks and crosses with the new design. • Fixes possible UI freezes when showing the sharing options for complex documents. • Fixes line break characters being ignored in the annotation list for text markup annotations like highlights. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Improves responsiveness when showing pages with links and other annotations in complex documents. • Improves discovery of forms in certain partially broken documents. • Improves handling of missing page references when exporting edited documents. • Fixes freezes that could occur when viewing documents with more than 100 pages, especially in thumbnail view. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Responsiveness improvements for complex documents and fixes for a future system version. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improves responsiveness when scrolling, zooming, tapping pages, and selecting text in complex documents with no links. • Fixes a crash on a future system version that occurred when changing the page-transition options while a document was visible. • Fixes pages rescaling on iPads when the toggling user interface visibility on a future system version. • Improves font embedding when working with PDF standard fonts. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Various fixes, including for right clicks on highlights and several improvements to signatures. Here’s the full list of changes: • Fixes secondary clicks (right clicks) selecting text even when there is an annotation on top like a highlight. • Improves the saved signatures list so it starts filling half the height of the screen on iPhone. • Fixes an issue where very small ink signatures were not placed inside the signature field used to initiate signing. • Fixes an issue where small ink signatures were not detected as overlapping when they covered only a small portion of a signature field. • Improves font embedding behavior. Fonts will be embedded more often resulting in better experience when viewed in other PDF readers. • Fixes an issue where certificates from some certificate authorities were not recognized correctly. • Fixes an issue where the status of some long term validation signatures may be invalid. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Fixes for text markup annotation merging and form fields. Here’s the full list of changes: • Improves the behavior of merging text markup annotations with matching colors to not merge if this would result in losing comments. • Fixes text markup annotations coving incorrect areas after undoing merging. • Fixes the annotation toolbar resizing when selecting a tool after device rotation or when starting to edit a text annotation. • Fixes an issue where certain form field flags weren’t considered correctly. • Fixes an issue where form fields weren’t formatted correctly at all times. • Fixes an issue where the primary language of the document wasn’t preserved when using the document editor. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Various fixes and improvements, including links to pages following the page after reordering with Document Editor. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds preserving accessibility information (PDF/UA tags) when using Document Editor. • Adds support for the PDF JavaScript API `AFTime_KeystrokeEx`. [Pro] • Adds support for the PDF JavaScript ‘global’ object. [Pro] • Improves newly created links to pages so they follow the page even if pages are moved or deleted using Document Editor. [Pro] • Improves the responsiveness of starting Content Editor on pages with complex vector graphics like building plans. [Pro] • Fixes a regression where certain OCR-processed PDFs could no longer be read correctly. • Fixes an issue where TIFF files that switched between page sizes were rendered incorrectly. • Fixes an issue with fixing up certain invalid PDFs. • Fixes an issue where the form tab order was calculated incorrectly. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Adds support for passing numbers to `fields.setItems()` in PDF JavaScript. • Improves the time to display pages with certain combinations of page size and screen or window size. • Fixes the forward button sometimes not being available after tapping the back button after navigating within a document. • Fixes an issue with decoding certain Unicode text. • Fixes a crash when opening documents with certain kinds of timestamp certificates. • Fixes the app icon sometimes changing back to the default when the app is opened. [Pro] We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Changes tapping email links in documents from using Apple Mail to opening your chosen default email app. • Improves memory usage when viewing certain documents with extemely complex pages. • Fixes some scenarios where autosave wouldn’t trigger when using multiple windows on iPad and closing or switching between those windows. • Fixes an issue where some annotations weren’t drawn correctly on pages with transparency. • Fixes an issue with opening certain PDFs that have a broken encryption descriptor. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Automatically selecting the current date in date form fields (with a Clear Field button or undo if you don’t want this). Fix for missing Chinese characters. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds selecting the current date and time automatically when selecting an empty date or time form field. • Adds Done and Clear Field buttons above the date or time picker for form fields. • Adds undo for changes to form fields with the date or time picker. • Fixes an issue where date or time pickers might not have changed the value of a form field in certain documents. • Adds support for loading larger PNG, JPEG and TIFF images. (Over 20 times larger on devices with 8 GB of memory.) • Fixes slowdown when loading certain TIFF images. • Fixes an issue with TIFF images with 0 DPI. • Fixes some Chinese characters being missing in some documents on iOS 18. • Fixes an issue when using Content Editor with certain documents where some text boxes appeared far too small. [Pro] • Improves handling of specific broken PDF forms, where multiple instances of the same form are combined into a single PDF. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Adds haptic feedback from Apple Pencil Pro and the trackpad on Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (M4) when snapping to guides while resizing annotations. • Improves the consistency of how many characters are allowed in multi-line, non-scrolling text form fields. • Changes the title ‘Embedded Files’ to ‘Attachments’ to sound less technical. • Fixes trackpad/mouse secondary click (right click) between selected characters sometimes dismissing selected text instead of showing the text selection menu. • Fixes the vertical scroll indicator not being visible in scrollable text form fields. • Fixes page content being cut off in vertical continuous scrolling when the keyboard was visible while scrolling to a new page. • Fixes an issue with Content Editor where moving text using certain fonts could cause a character swap in some viewers. [Pro] • Fixes an issue where in certain PDFs the outline wasn’t preserved when using the Document Editor. • Fixes a crash when opening certain PDFs with malformed forms. • Fixes a crash when viewing PDFs with malformed attachments. • Fixes the page appearance setting not always being saved when changed from the app settings screen. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Date picker for forms fields. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds showing a date or time picker for form fields that use date or time formatting. • Adds a border to indicate when read-only annotations are selected. • Adds a border to indicate when locked line annotations are selected. • Improves the selection state of the thumbnail bar (both scrubber and scrollable) to more consistently match the visible spread in most common configurations. In more unusual configurations where many spreads are visible at once, tapping pages in the thumbnail bar will still result in the highlighted page being offset from the tapped page. • Fixes quickly double tapping to start editing free text annotations not working. • Fixes quickly double tapping to start moving annotations not working. • Fixes an issue retrieving the text of a highlight annotation on rotated pages. • Fixes an issue where PDFs with a large number of unique fonts could use a lot of memory. • Fixes an issue where callout annotations weren’t rendered correctly in other PDF readers. • Fixes lockup or crash issues when opening certain malformed PDF forms. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

Look Up, Translate, and Writing Tools in the menu for selected text. This version of PDF Viewer requires iOS 16 or later. Here’s the full list of changes: • Adds Look Up, Translate, and Writing Tools in the menu for selected text. (Writing Tools requires Apple Intelligence.) • Improves language handling with the Speak menu item for selected text. • Improves the look and feel of text selection to match standard system behavior. • Improves the consistency of how many characters are allowed in single line, non-scrolling, auto-sized text fields. • Improves text extraction by replacing invalid characters with the Unicode Replacement Character. • Fixes issues with certain fonts and text extraction. • Fixes an issue where the tab index of signature fields wasn’t calculated correctly. • Fixes an issue where handwritten signatures may appear unexpectedly cropped. • Fixes an issue where the signature validation status after certificate revocation checks may be invalid if the document has multiple digital signatures. • Removes the experimental ‘Natural Drawing’ feature. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!

• Add shrinking the measurement label to fit inside elliptical and rectangular area measurement annotations instead of showing the note indicator. [Pro] • Fixes highlights not using the correct blend mode, resulting in using a normal blend mode. • Fixes PDFs with millions of outline elements using too much memory. • Fixes handwritten signatures sometimes appearing distorted in some page orientations. • Fixes an incorrect font weight being selected for the Lexend font. We’d love to hear your feedback! If you have ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. You can contact us using the in-app Support button on the settings screen. If you enjoy the app, please write us a review and help spread the word! Thanks!