Unwanted highlights
Highlighting Bible text highlights everything in my library related to the passage - I don’t want this.
For example, if I highlight John 316 and have a commentary on John open as well as other study Bibles, it will highlight anything related to John 316 in those books as well, even though I didn’t highlight it myself. In some ways, I can see this being a feature, but for me, it’s very distracting because sometimes these commentaries can go pages long on one verse, and so when everything is highlighted by association, it defeats the purpose entirely.
Any way to turn this off?
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Yes I largely use it on mobile for iPhone and sometimes iPad. I can share a handful of screenshots that show the resources at the top of the screen. It’s all resources. 
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Weird, it removed my explanation and only posted the photos. And it added them in reverse order so you can see at the bottom screenshot is where I highlighted the biblical text and all these other resources were highlighted as a result and it’s obnoxious. I largely use iPad and iPhone for this, rarely computer.
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It looks as though you have created your highlight against the actual verse reference as opposed to the text itself.
This has the result of applying the same highlight to every resource that has the same reference indexed (known as a milestone).
I don't believe you can change this on mobile but you can on desktop.
If you open the desktop app to the verse you have highlighted and click the icon to open the Notes Tool you will see something like this
And, if I am right in what I am suggesting, you will see an anchor of Luke 8:48
Select the text in the verse, click Add anchor in the Notes Tool, choose the Selected text option and click Done
Now, in the Notes Tool, you should see two anchors - and if you hover your cursor to the right of the first one you will see the option to remove it. If you do that, you should get the highlighting you want
But I don't understand how this happened in the first place. By default, on mobile, highlights are created against selected text as opposed to the reference. So I'd be interested to know how you created the highlight
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i just tapped to select the text, and then clicked the highlight 🤷🏻♂️ 0 -
heycalebj said:
I just tapped to select the text, and then clicked the highlight
That's strange - when I do that, I just get the text used as the anchor not the reference.
Did you try my suggestion and, if so, did it change anything?
I might not be correct in my understanding of what is happening and it would be good to check / verify.
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