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Tip: How to Easily Delete Accidentally Highlighted Text in iBooks (iPhone & iPad Tip)

iBooks icon

I love using iBooks to read books on the iPad & iPhone, but there is one feature that can be annoying: highlighting text. You see, iBooks lets you highlight text simply by dragging your finger over it. The problem is, this often leads to accidentally highlighting the text when turning pages or casually touching the screen. To make matters worse, trying to delete those highlights can have the comically opposite effect of creating even more highlights. There is an easy solution to removing the highlighting. Below is a quick way to delete those highlights.

Video Instructions:

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Tap the Table of Contents button at the top left:

Table of Contents button in iBooks

2. Tap Notes:

Tap Notes button in iBooks

3. Swipe the note, then tap Delete:

4. Tap Resume in the top left:

Tap Resume button in iBooks

And that’s it. You’ll be taken right back to where you left off reading, and the highlighting will be deleted from the text.

Official iPhone 5 iOS 6 User Guide Manual Now Available for Download

iPhone User Guide for iOS 6 screenshot

If you bought an iPhone 5 and wondered where the heck the instruction manual was, well, here it is. Apple’s iPhone User Guide for iOS 6 is a free download in both PDF and iBook (ePub) formats:

You’d think the size of the manual would keep growing with all the added features, but this version has actually shrunk to 156 pages from the previous 179.

If you’re considering buying one of those third-party help books like iPhone 5 for Dummies, you might start here first. Even a grizzled iPhone veteran like myself always finds something new in these manuals.