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Cannot annotate pdf that has password protected restricted editing

Hi,

There is a bug with the iPhone iOS Acrobat app.

I’m unable to annotate pdf documents that have password protected restricted editing.

It works fine to annotate on the pc and it also works fine to annotate in other iPhone pdf reader apps.

This is very frustrating as I read a lot of ebooks on my phone and need to highlight text and make comments.

The app is fantastic and I want to use it, can this please be fixed.

Cheers

Nik

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Correct answer Meenakshi Negi

Hi Nik,

Sorry for the delay in response.

As the PDF is password protected, you will not be able to edit or annotate PDF on the Acrobat Reader mobile application.

Acrobat Reader mobile application has some known limitation, where the changes cannot be saved on the protected PDFs.

You will be able to open the file, however, cannot make any changes( adding comments or filling the form fields) to it.

Hope the information helps.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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Did you ever find a work around to this?

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Hi Nik,

Sorry for the delay in response.

As the PDF is password protected, you will not be able to edit or annotate PDF on the Acrobat Reader mobile application.

Acrobat Reader mobile application has some known limitation, where the changes cannot be saved on the protected PDFs.

You will be able to open the file, however, cannot make any changes( adding comments or filling the form fields) to it.

Hope the information helps.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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Hi

I would be grateful if you could let me know if this is still the case for the mobile app.

Many thanks

John

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