iOS adding Chinese characters to PDFs? PDF文档

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iOS adding Chinese characters to PDFs? PDF文档

I’ve never posted on the forums before but I’ve noticed this bug in iOS 13 and couldn’t find anything about it. I was wondering if others are having the same issue.

iOS (13.4.1) seems to be appending Chinese looking characters (文档) to PDFs created via Safari built-in PDF screenshot feature. All the PDFs are “PDF文档”. (My language is, and always has been, set to English)

Steps to reproduce:

Take a screenshot of a site in iOS Safari
Tap the screenshot
Tap ‘Full Page’ (to save it as a .pdf)
Tap the Share symbol
Tap ‘Save to Files’

You will see your file is now PDF文档.

Posted on Mar 3, 2021 1:06 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 3, 2021 2:29 PM in response to GuyJabs

I think those Chinese characters mean "document".

Most users have probably moved to iOS 14 released last September. On that version, I just get "PDF Document" following your steps. So it has perhaps been fixed.

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