When annotating pdf files on my iPad, the page navigation pane is on the right sight over the page. How can I make this dissapear/autohide? Now it covers a bit of the page I want to annotate.
iPad Pro 10.5-inch, Wi-Fi
Thanks for the additional information. A picture is worth a thousand words!
The navigation pane that you see on the right-hand edge of the screen is a function of the system PDF viewer - that only appears with multi-page documents. The navigation pane should not (and as illustrated - does not) obscure any elements of the document itself - and should not impact the ability to edit/markup the document.
The Navigation Pane is designed to permit easy navigation of multi-page documents - this being particularly important when using the Markup features of iPadOS with an Apple Pencil. Screen gestures have been seemingly contrived to optimise and disambiguate navigation (with your finger) and drawing (with Pencil).
To my knowledge, it is not possible to hide or otherwise configure the behaviour of this system feature.
I have two suggestions:
1) Identify a third-party App that better meets your needs - in this case, an App that provides document Markup features without the Navigation pane.
2) Submit a feature request to Apple using the product feedback portal:
I hope this information and insight proves to be helpful - if only, perhaps, in better understanding the features with which you appear to have difficulty.
Thanks for the suggestion. On the previous ipad pro (with first generation pencil) and previous iOs, this pane automatically was hided when you touched the screen with one finger and appeared again when you scrolled.
"The scroll with finger feature" was removed, which was annoying, and was re-implemented in iOs14.
So we are now one step in the good direction (i.e. where we already were few iOs' ago) and need to take one more step and auto-hide the page scroller.
I will submit a feature request.
Thanks for your help.
Can you post a screenshot? (NB: Please redact any sensitive information)
Take a screenshot on your iPad – Apple Support
Please see below, this is only the right side of the screen due to confidential info on the left side. I have circled the pane.
[Image Edited by Moderator to Remove Personal Information]
How can I make the page navigation pane dissapear/autohide when annotating pdfs in Files?
