Dropshare User Guide

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Using Annotate from Other Apps ​

Annotate plugs into the system so you can mark up an image without first launching the app. There are three entry points, each suited to a different moment.

Share Sheet ​

From almost any app, select or open an image and tap Share → Annotate. The image opens in the full editor. When you're done, export or share as usual. This is the same powerful editor you get inside the app, just reached from wherever the image already lives.

Action Extension (markup in place) ​

Annotate also appears in the bottom action row of the share sheet - the same row as the system Markup action. Tap Annotate there to mark up the image right inside the sharing app, without leaving it.

  • The editor opens with the Close and Share buttons.
  • Share works as usual - hand the annotated image off to any destination.
  • Close asks whether to Save or Discard your changes. Choosing Save feeds the edited image back to the app that opened it. When you came from Files, that writes the annotated image back to the original file in place.

The Action Extension works with images only.

Photo Editing Extension (edit inside Photos) ​

You can annotate a photo without ever leaving the Photos app:

  1. Open a photo and tap Edit (the sliders / fader button).
  2. Tap the ••• (More) button.
  3. Choose Extensions, then Annotate.
  4. Mark up the photo with the usual tools, then tap Done.

The result is saved back to the photo non-destructively: Photos keeps the original, so you can Revert at any time. Re-opening the same photo in Annotate restores your previous annotations as editable layers, so you can pick up exactly where you left off.

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Markup, redaction, and shapes all work the same across these extensions and the main app. A few image-picker tools (Image, Image Playground, Backdrop, Watermark) are only available inside the full app.