Read PDF documents
Search and bookmark PDFs, with two-page layouts, reading crop and paper colors.
File list → Open PDF
What you can do
Read PDFs with contents, page thumbnails, bookmarks, full-text search and progress restoration. Switch between continuous scrolling and horizontal page turns.
How to use it
- Open a PDF from the file list. For an undownloaded iCloud file, download it first and tap again after completion.
- Tap the page to reveal tools. Use contents, thumbnails or bookmarks to navigate, or search the document’s searchable text.
- Choose continuous scrolling or horizontal page turns, pinch to zoom or double-tap to switch between page fit and zoom, and add bookmarks. Reopen the same file to resume your progress.
- Use More for details, sharing and available file actions.
Open Reading Settings to choose continuous scrolling or paged reading, fit-to-page or fit-to-width, two-page display and a separate cover. Adjust reading crop and choose original, sepia, green or night paper. Reading crop changes the display without editing the original page.
Use the reader’s bottom toolbar for annotations and handwritten signatures, watermarks and password management. The More menu offers page organization and merging, splitting and image export.
To create a searchable PDF from paper or photos, use PDF Scan & OCR. Text recognition belongs to that creation workflow; opening an image-only PDF does not recognize its text automatically.
Before you start
Search depends on document content. Scanned image PDFs are not automatically searchable text. A single tap on ordinary page or markup areas shows controls. Links, forms and text selections keep their own interactions, and stopping inertial scrolling does not also reveal controls. Reading records stay on this device; iCloud cross-device progress sync is not promised.