# Apple Pencil 2 Text Highlighting Behavior

**URL:** <https://forum.paperpile.com/t/apple-pencil-2-text-highlighting-behavior/6527>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** mobile, pdf-annotations\
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/apple-pencil-2-text-highlighting-behavior/6527 "2021-06-11T18:40:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![nve](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/nve/32/3369_2.png) [@nve](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/nve)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/apple-pencil-2-text-highlighting-behavior/6527/1 "2021-06-11T18:40:31Z")

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Hey y’all!

I’m more or less satisfied with Chromium Edge’s built in PDF reader for my MacBook Pro, but not with my interaction with the iPad app.

So, I use a 12.9" iPad Pro with the PaperPile app to read papers (still on my 30 day trial, but liking it) with the Apple Pencil 2 in hand. I mostly have the highlighter tool selected while reading. One annoyance I’m dealing with since the beginning of my trial is that selecting text to highlight with the Pencil 2 is not precise.

Each time I place the pencil tip on the first word of the phrase and then drag, the actual highlighting begins with the second word/token in the selected range of text. I have been able to replicate this almost a 100 percent of times. And this happens with modern, fresh off the press born-digital PDFs (I could understand it to be a PDF formatting problem if it were some old OCR’d texts).

However, simply selecting text (with the highlighter tool off) is precise as it should be. Using a finger to highlight works fine too. There’s something off with how the app’s built-in PDF reader interacts with the Apple Pencil 2.

I wonder if others are facing the same problem.

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**Author:** ![vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/vicente/32/3791_2.png) [@vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/vicente)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/apple-pencil-2-text-highlighting-behavior/6527/2 "2021-06-24T04:01:16Z")

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@nve - just wanted to confirm here I’ve passed on your feedback to our mobile dev and added it to a specific topic on our tracker. There have been some other reported ‘kinks’ related to Apple Pencil / stylus usage which we hope to look into and work out when able.