Comment by jmaker

Text section is also extremely annoying when marking up PDF files in the Preview app (select -> highlight). Anything you select (whole words), deselects some trailing portion and you’re left with only part of your selection with a highlight pop-up prompt. You want to reselect, so you tap aside, and it deselects the entire fragment. You repeat, again a trifling piece gets unselected, but this time the partial selection remains in tact after the highlight popup prompt is dismissed, and you try to expand the selection, but it either doesn’t react or cancels the entire selection, just for fun.

It can take a few times to get the selection right, but by that time you forgot why you wanted to highlight that passage in the first place.

It totally breaks my flow of consciousness while reading and marking.

It happens on iPhones and iPads, with and without the Pencil.