GET STARTED WITH MARKUP
Add shapes, signatures and more
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to edit and annotate with Markup
YOU’LL NEED Mac OS X 10.10 or later
Don’t we mean Markdown? Nope! Markup has been a part of macOS since Yosemite and it enables you to do things like add annotations to PDFs, draw shapes and speech bubbles on photos and much, much more.
Markup is one of our favourite macOS features: it enables you to perform a variety of tasks on images, PDFs and documents without having to open a dedicated editing app.
There are several ways to use Markup. You can access it from Finder by holding
≈ and clicking, then selecting Quick Actions > Markup; you can use it inside Quick Look by clicking on the Markup icon; and you can use it in Markup-enabled apps such as Preview, Mail, Notes, TextEdit and Photos. The available tools will differ from app to app so, for example, you get selection tools in Preview that you won’t get if you access the same document via Quick Look. And some tools are hardware dependent, so the Draw icon will only appear if you have a Force Touch trackpad that uses pressure sensitivity to draw heavier lines.
Combining your devices
Markup gets even more clever when you use Continuity Markup, which uses your iPhone or iPad screen as a drawing pad for drawing or highlighting files on your Mac. You’ll need iOS/iPadOS 13 and macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later to take advantage of it.
Let’s discover how Markup makes editing, annotating and signing files simple. Carrie Marshall