Apple Pencil Mark-ups on pdf not saving

Hi. I have been using my Apple Pencil to mark-up PDFs on my iPad Pro. Never had an issue until yesterday. Now, when I save or email the PDF, the mark-ups disappear. Have updated to latest IOS 15.3 but that didn't fix the problem. Normally, I would open the pdf from email, do the mark-ups, hit "Done" and "Reply All". When that didn't work yesterday, I tried saving the marked-up PDF to Dropbox and Cloud Drive but same problem. The first page saves, but the mark-ups disappear from the following pages. Any ideas how to fix?

iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 6:26 PM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2022 12:50 PM

I have this problem with multiple users iPads after the 15.3 update. No markup is saved after you close the markup tab for the first time. I have been instructing users to open the markup tab, make all changes necessary using two fingers to scroll instead of closing markup and scrolling. If they do not press the markup button again within the attachment until they are finished making all changes, it appears all changes save. Then hit "Done" and "Reply All" it seems all markups are saved when sent. This is an issue Apple needs to address as the tool is not working properly, this just seems to be a successful work around

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