iPadOS 17 pdf editing is broken

this happens all the time. FIX IT NOW APPLE!!!!

While annotating with the Apple Pencil , the document will crash and reopen, with ALL of the prior annotations missing. The pen will then start in black until it “remembers” that a color was selected and switch back to that on the fly. I cannot erase prior annotations anymore. Documents sometimes seem to have saved correctly but then annotations are missing. Frustrating.

IOS 17.0.2 and still this is not fixed. I'm using iPad pro (M2 chip with 2TB storage). How do we push this to support and get it fixed?

I wrote miserably on a 5 page pdf, I had to save every time I wrote something so it didn't crash. The file size went from a few kb to over 250 Mb after I was done. Something is very wrong.

Agreed. This is pretty terrible. While annotating, the document will crash and reopen, with some of the prior annotations missing. The pen will then start in black until it “remembers” that a color was selected and switch back to that on the fly. I cannot erase prior annotations anymore. Documents sometimes seem to have saved correctly but then annotations are missing. Frustrating.

This is a huge setback for the app… really poor release quality from Apple.

I’m on iOS 17.2 and found this thread to say I am experiencing exactly this! I just spent a half hour annotating a pdf, I blinked, and everything was lost. It’s almost like it’s restarting the program but not saving work along the way?

Agreed. I am having the same issues, another thing is annoying me is that I cannot select and copy what I have written with the pen.

I hope they resolve these things soon, I can’t believe they did as purpose.

I write out music on blank manuscript paper saved as a pdf. I copy the pdf blank page, paste it in a folder I’m working on, write out the music and save under its new name. And repeat. It appears to be saving all the content from all the charts I write using the pasted ‘blank’ pdf. Each file size is larger than the previous file. When I use the ‘create PDF’ function to combine all the charts I’ve written I get this mess. Please fix. Please. Please.

Same problem here, everything disappears... is apple addressing this? helloooo????

I rely on this. It should work as intended. I shouldn't have to pay a third party for an app that has functionality native to the device!

Edit pdf is acting odd for me. I shift a page from one spot to another, press done… the. PDF reopens and changes did not stick. Happens on both local and cloud files, even after restart.

Has anyone had any luck with the fix for this? I am on version 17.2 and this still happens! Very frustrating

Have similar problem with files app and pdf files. Edited a pdf last night and now the file is lost and when i do search in the search bar it appears but i cannot open it anymore. All i did was annotated on the pdf file. Fix ios 17 this is very hassle and frustrating.

250MB - wow.

Does anyone remember if iPad annotations in past releases were (or could be) pixel based? I'm used to having every annotation be an "object" that was its own entity, and could be erased only as an entire entity. This new release allows pixel erasing, which allows erasing tiny parts of any individual annotation - think Photoshop.

This seems new to me. Is it?

If this is new, that's a major change in to the foundation of this app and could explain a lot of this upheaval. And I would expect file sizes to be larger, tho 250MB still seems huge...

Same thing happened to me too. The edits are not getting erased. They just fade a little. The worst thing is my pdf files have even disappeared completely. They are not in deleted folder or anywhere else. Even after erasing the iPad same issues keep happening and apple support guys don’t have any solution. They just told me to keep waiting for maybe few weeks or months or maybe a year until they fix it, they don’t have any answer and my iPad was still under warranty.

I am having this same issue. As a college student I depend on pdf files entirely so imagine my surprise when I see my most important and valuable textbook’s pdf completely blank. I need that for class and cannot study without it. I thought it was the file itself so I attempted to delete it and redownload it. To my surprise the file redownloaded but blank, even though the origina copy was okay and contained all my information needed. What am I supposed to do now? This issue needs to be resolved asap or else I am officially switching to a different companies products. This is ridiculous I should not be struggling with this with a company such as apple I expect better than whatever this mess is.

Wow! This is so terrible! I utilize this function to fill in contracts and have people sign contracts and work orders. How am I supposed to work now?

I guess it’s back to the Stone Age and start using paper and pencil again!

I wonder if we can revert back to iOS 16 and the problem will be fixed?

I have all the issues noted above. And sometimes while marking with the pencil, the Markup ‘panics’ and just refreshes and all my edits to that point are lost with no way to recover. This is within a single edit session.

Apple completely broke my workflow with this. I’m a teacher and use markup on PDFs in my classroom live for students to follow. I’ve had to abandon Markup and go with the uPDF app, which is fine, but has creates other issues (not autosync’d to iCloud and no ‘pencil preview marker’ on screen. So sad this is completely broken.