How to stop iOS app from wanting to format highlighted text?

I have a PDF document that I created in Acrobat that contains hyperlinked text. I then highlighted any text that was linked. When I open the file on my phone (using Adobe Acrobat Reader) and attempt to use the hyperlinks in the file, the app only wants to format the highlighting and will not follow the link. If I remove the highlighting, the app lets me tap on the link just fine. I would really like the text to remain highlighted (to show which text has links). How can I either highlight the text so that  the app will not try to format it, or disable the app from trying to format the highlighted areas?