How do you remove a highlight from a book in iBooks?

If you tap the icon at the top of the book's page next to the Library button (its icon looks like three bullet-pointed lines) and then tap Notes on the screen that you are taken to, you should see a list of the notes and highlights that you've made in that book - swipe across the one that you want to remove and a Delete should appear on the right-hand end of it. Tap the Resume button at top left of the page to go back to where you were in the book.

Another quick way of unhighlighting is to just simply tap the highlight word (in your case, any word will do) then tap the symbol that is a circle with a red line through it next to the highliting colour option. This will unhighlight anything that you highlited along with that word

Yep...both examples work well.

But I do find this way a tad quicker for personally.

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I have accidentally done the same but would like to restore my original highlights, they were in different colors and are now gone.

They were overwritten when I accidentally selected the entire book (still don't know I did that). I tried going back to the notes feature at the left corner (3 dots next to library) but all my old highlights were gone. It looks like when I selected the entire page it seems to have overwritten my other highlights (they were in different colors and are now gone).

I really hope you can help me. Can i shut this feature of selecting my entire book off? Hours of previously highlighted notes are now gone!!

If your previous notes highlights are not listed in the notes/highlights list then they've probably been deleted. Were they in the book when you last backed up to your computer's iTunes ? If they were then you could try restoring to that backup and see if they are put back (you will need to restore your whole iPad, and I'm not 100% sure if iBooks notes/highlights are included in a backup, but I assume that they are)

Thanks for the reply! No I had not backed up the book. I will look into making sure I do that in the future. I will also try to test it and see if highlights are backed up should I run into this in the future. Otherwise I may have to go back to PDF instead of epub.

KIng_Penguin: Thanks! This fixed my problem which was highlights in the list but not in the text -- I had changed my Apple ID, causing the highlights to not display in the text. If I highlighted again, I had 2 sets of of the same text in the list of highlights.

I have the same problem. Some how when I was highlighting a section, the entire book back to that point become highlighted, deleting all my previous notes and highlights.

I can't believe that there isn't a simple "undo" button on this software. Any suggestion on how to recover my overwritten highlights?

Now my book looks all highlighted from that point back....extremely sad... so much hours of work lost 😟

Hello,

I have the same problem , the entire book was highlighted, deleting all my previous highlights please add a SIMPLE UNDO button on iBooks , to go back with my previous highlight, and please fix that bug to prevent tha kind of error.

Please Add a SIMPLE UNDO BUTTON ON IBooks

I hope the next update fix that problem, We need a UNDO option to recover our overwritten highlights

I do not want to lost in the future hours of work

thanks in advance

Hi. I am trying something and maybe it will work for now ( I prefer to have an undo option)

you can click on the A and the right corner, ( where you change the fonts) you have a choice to change the way you view your book, change it to scrolling, changing it to green.

Viewing the book up and down you won't have the problem of accidentally highlighting everything. I don't know if I woul like to read all books like this, for now I am doing a chapter book, so it is ok.

hope we will get and update very soon

We are fellow users here on these forums, you're not talking to iTunes Support nor Apple.

If you want to leave feedback for Apple : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks_ios.html

Thanks. This helped me. too.