Markup Options on Photos

Why has Apple made it so difficult to create a highlight border object when marking up a picture. It used to default as transparent and then you could expand or shrink a box with colored border to highlight text. Now markup creates an opaque object filled in with the color instead of a transparent object with colored border. This is so frustrating and instructions given in this forum are so complicated.

gypsyldy ~ Instead of my first suggestion above, it's probably better to tap the 3rd button from the left and choose the red diagonal line – which appears to mean "no fill colour". (It's much easier to use these buttons than explain them!)

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Here is an example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255189852?answerId=259976965022&sortBy=oldest_first#259976965022

It is still possible to do it on an iPhone. The problem is, that Apple has moved the controls and forgot to put labels below the controls. Initially they will look all the same.

When you add a shape, there are four circles below the picture, as mentioned by alancito.

From left to right:

1. The circle to the left lets you pick the colour and the transparency of the border.
2. The second circle determines the thickness of the border.
3. The third circle controls the color of the interior of the shape. Set its transparency slider to zero for an empty shape.
4. The rightmost circle determines the overall transparency.

gypsyldy ~ After your grey filled shape appears, tap the round '100' button at lower right. A slider will appear – slide it to the far left to change the shape's opaqueness from 100% to 0%.

You can discover for yourself what the other three round buttons do by tapping them and experimenting.

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jurry1 wrote: "I tried to delete this because it was a duplicate. How does one delete a comment! 😂"

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After adding the shape you want (I’ve used a red circle in my screen grab), a row of options will appear at the bottom of the “Markup” page - think of this as a menu of options. Going left to right, the first option is for the color of the shape’s border (I chose red), the second option is for the width of the shape’s outline. The third option is where you can select only the outline of the shape - by choosing the shape with the international slash sign to mean you “do not want” to use a colored in shape. The fourth option is for opacity of the shape’s borders. The 3 dots are just for ease of use should you want to use those functions. (If you have trouble seeing the bottom of my photo you can press and hold on the photo and save it to your photos)

I tried to delete this because it was a duplicate. How does one delete a comment! 😂