iPhone/iPad - Highlights and Highlighters

What are Highlights?

Highlights let you visually mark key words, phrases, or verses so they stand out during your Bible study. Whether you're identifying important themes, tracking repeated ideas, or simply marking a verse to revisit later, highlights provide a personal way to stay engaged with Scripture. You can also organize your highlights using tags and categories to make them easy to browse and reference later.

Verse-Based vs. Word-Based Highlights

There are two ways to create highlights in the app:

• Verse-Based Highlights: Created by selecting a verse number. These highlights are tied to that verse and appear across all downloaded Bible translations.
• Word-Based Highlights: Created by selecting specific text. These are tied to the exact resource where they were created (e.g., a specific Bible translation or commentary).

Create a Highlight

You can create a highlight when viewing text in your app. As mentioned above, these highlights can be tied to either a verse or text. Here are the steps you can follow to add a highlight:

• Tap a verse number or select text and select Highlight from the pop-up menu.
  
  
• Choose the label, tags, and category and then select the Highlighter color you would like to use to create the highlight. 
  

Edit a Highlight

There are two ways to edit a highlighter.

First, you can edit a highlight from the Menu:

• Tap the Menu icon.
  
• Tap Highlights.
  
• Choose the Highlighter color associated with the highlight you wish to edit, or select 'All Highlighters'.
  
• Tap the 'i' icon to the right of a highlight you wish to edit to open the edit window. 
  
  
• Here you can change the label, assign the highlight to a category, change the highlighter color, and edit the tags. You can do these things by tapping the Settings icon in the upper right corner or by following these steps:
  

1. Settings (gear icon), which offers the following options when tapped: 
   1. Delete Highlight
   2. Edit Tags
   3. Change Category
   4. Edit Title
   5. Change Highlighter 
2. Tap the title field to change the label (title)
3. Tap the Category field to choose a category. 
4. Tap the Highlighter field to change the highlighter color.
5. Here we see the verse reference that is highlighted.
6. The date the highlight was created.
7. The date the highlight was last updated.
8. Tap '+ Add Tag' to add a tag.
9. Tap 'Edit' to change or remove existing tags.

Second, you can edit a highlight from the text: 

• Tap and hold any highlighted word within the Bible text.
• Tap 'Edit' in the popup bar which appears.
  
• You may now edit the highlight with the same options as shown above but in a smaller popup:
  

Delete A Highlight

There are two ways to delete a highlight in our app.

First, you can delete a highlight from within a resource:

• Tap and hold any highlighted word within the Bible text.
• Tap 'Edit' in the popup bar which appears.
  
• Tap the Options icon in the upper right of the highlight popup (looks like gear.)
  
• Tap 'Delete Highlight.'
  
• Tap 'Delete' again.
  

Second, you can delete a highlight through the Menu: 

• Tap the Menu icon.
  
• Tap Highlights.
  
• Tap the highlighter for the highlight you want to delete.
  
• Locate the highlight you wish to delete.
• Swipe from right to left across the highlight. 
  
• Select Delete.
• Confirm that you would like to delete the highlight.

Create a Highlighter

While we provide a few different highlighters, you can create and customize highlighters to fit your preferences. To create a highlighter:

• Tap the Menu icon.
  
• Tap Highlights.
  
• Tap Edit in the upper right corner of the menu.
  
• Scroll to the bottom of the screen, if needed, and tap Add Highlighter.
  

On the next screen, you can assign a label (title), choose highlight or underline, change the intensity of the color, and choose the color. Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner to save the highlighter. It will now appear as an option when you add a highlight in the text.

Edit a Highlighter

If you would like to change a highlighter, you can do so in the Highlighter window using these steps: 

• Tap the Menu icon.
  
• Tap Highlights.
  
• Tap the 'i' icon to the right of the highlighter.
  
• There are a few different ways that you can customize your highlighter: 
  

1. Tap the title field to change the label (title).
2. Select Highlight or Underline to change the type.
3. Change the intensity of your highlighter.
4. Change the color of your highlighter.

Delete a Highlighter

You can only delete highlighters that are not associated with highlights. If you have created highlights with the highlighter you want to delete, you will first need to edit or delete those highlights using the steps described above. Once you have done this, follow these steps to delete the highlighter:

• Tap the Menu icon.
  
• Tap Highlights.
  
• Swipe from right to left on the highlighter and tap Delete, then confirm that you would like to delete the highlighter.
  

We hope this article has been helpful in learning how to use the highlight feature within the Olive Tree Bible App! If you need further assistance, please reach out to our Customer Support team by submitting a ticket here.