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Disappearing iPad note markups

I am a law student and bought my iPad to read/take notes on PDFs using my Apple Pencil. Occasionally, all of the markups I’ve done on a PDF will disappear. Hours of notes will seemingly vanish out of nowhere with no way of recovery. It’s super frustrating and honestly shocking how such a bug (as well as a few other minor issues) could exist on my brand new iPad Pro.

I would greatly appreciate support to resolve this issue. I say respectfully that this $1000+ tablet I bought 2 months ago is unreliable at the fairly basic task I bought it for.

I saw this topic brought up in old forum, but I was unable to find any solutions. My iPad is on ios15.

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iPad Pro, iPadOS 15

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 5:05 PM

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Eric_Chang

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Posted on Oct 29, 2021 8:49 PM

Same here!!!

Please fix this problem...

For somehow reason, I am using apple pencil to write notes on PDF, and suddenly it scrolled up automatically and all the notes just gone...it's really annoying and hours of work just disappeared.

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Dec 9, 2022 11:51 AM in response to DanielleM182

Horrible response, completely fails to understand what OP is describing. This is a real problem Apple.

Fyll

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Dec 10, 2022 1:10 PM in response to Seanyal01

Same here, stop working on AR gender neutral emojies and start working on what actually matters. How tf can a NOTE TAKING device does not have this feature?

Dec 11, 2022 6:17 PM in response to Seanyal01

I am livid right now. So much work down the drain because Apple can't get its **** together.

Dec 11, 2022 7:43 PM in response to rabbleryan

Honestly just buy notability… apple doesn't care about this.

i dont think i will use this option again and i will do everything through notability.

tala245

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Dec 17, 2022 10:07 AM in response to Seanyal01

Oh my God!! I keep struggling with this issue and it's so frustrating!!

fei83

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Jan 19, 2023 11:19 AM in response to lukeyuu

This might be because a different pdf software was used, maybe try to save the pdf as an adobe pdf first

Jan 21, 2023 2:54 PM in response to Seanyal01

I've just left my ipad for 5 minutes, last 3 hours of markups are lost, f**kin apple in 2023. ridiculous iOS 16.2... Never again apple product!! BEST ADVISE for everyone.

Mar 21, 2023 7:58 PM in response to Seanyal01

So whats the solution?! This has happened to me SEVERAL TIMES. Has Apple just pretended this

Apr 4, 2023 3:12 PM in response to Seanyal01

It is not really gone you just need to change the highlight color, then the note will come back, it a bug.

Disappearing iPad note markups