Highlighting broken!!!

You can read more about the new touch gestures here and vote for a change in the single-tap gesture here. 

(I'm only providing info; I like the current single-tap behavior and would prefer if Logos creates a new solution for the problem discussed here instead of reverting to the past behavior 🤐)

Thank you for this thread. I was just coming here to start my own. The new update is nice except for highlighting, which maybe they could make a priority over other tap features. For me, I often accidently drag a highlight of something as I'm trying to scroll on my iPhone. Now, in order to delete the highlight, I have to long press a word, then drag over the entire length of the exact highlight to get the trash can icon. Otherwise, I have to open the notes feature and delete it there. This is frustrating and not helpful.

I don't know if it is a difference between iOS and Android, or merely the fact that sometimes we become accustomed to doing something in a certain way, but I find this new update to be so much better and substantially more usable than it had been.

Opening main menus within a book has become far easier for me. Highlighting portions in a book has become easier as well, as it mimics the selection style of most every other app that I have used in Android through the years.

Removing highlights from a portion of a book seems easier too, particularly when I have more than one highlight in that portion of the book.

At least for me, this new selection style gives me more options for how to edit my highlighting and note taking usage in Logos. I do think that improvements could be made, such as adding options (copy highlighted text for example) to the highlight card in the selection menu.

I do remember how aggravated I was though, years ago when I first started using mobile devices with Android. The difference between Android and Windows frustrated me until I became familiar with the Android style.

1Cor10 31 said:

I think what you are saying works when the highlight is one word, but not otherwise.

I've highlighted a sentence/passage/para before, and now I am unable to get the trash icon after pressing the 3 vertical dots even if I select the exact highlighted passage before. Please give us a easy way (I'm ok with learning new things) to select and delete previous markups.

On iOS, it works for me as Ali indicated. On the iPad, I highlight a paragraph, long-press a single word in the paragraph, I get the selection menu, tap the three dots, and I get the Delete option:

It works as well when I select the entire highlighted paragraph (selecting is finicky, though):

I tested on the iPhone as well, with a Bible, and it works the same.

Well…now that I know how to use the new highlighting features, it works fine for my needs.  I didn’t get the memo on the new feature set and mistakenly thought it was broken rather than changed.   

Clark

JT (alabama24) said:

1Cor10 31">Whatever the "Note file" you are talking about must have been turned on from whenever I bought the software I guess, 'cos I don't remember turning anything on.

Highlights are a special kind of note. You can turn the file on or off to hide the highlights. In your original post, you said that the highlights were not showing, so I asked if you had it turned off. 

You should create a new thread. Post screenshots and explain your issue(s) clearly. 

Thank you JT. This time, I was lucky You can see below that when I hit the 3 vertical dots, I don't even get the "delete" option.

What they didn't tell us in the update is that it's now the three dots by a new highlight section below that. Look in the image below the "Add Note" pencil, and you'll see a new highlight section, the yellow A in your screenshot. Tap the three dots to the side of that now.

Yes, tap there. You do not need to select the whole highlight. One word will do. This is especially helpful for when you have overlapping highlights, as you will be able to easily choose the highlight you wish to deal with.