Deleting highlights in GL 3.0

I'm having trouble deleting highlights from scripture passages. Anyone know how to do this in the new version?

Yeah, push the trash-bin icon when you select the verse you have previously highlighted. Its the icon furthest to the right.

By the way, many thanks to the Devs! This version brings some much needed features, what a great piece of work this is!

The delete feature isn't working for me. I select the verse that I accidentally highlighted, tap the trash can and nothing happens. Must be a bug.

I found that just tapping on the existing highlight will bring up the menu with the trash can. Selecting the verse again allows me to overlap highlights but not delete existing ones. Please be aware that deleting the highlight also deletes links, notes, and tags as well.

I have also found I can not delete or change highlights from those synced over from my previous version. If I had used two colors in one verse it would layer the colors not have separate ones so I now have some pretty strange colors going on. I agree there needs to be a fix for this. Once you highlight you cannot delete it new or old markings. Will be using the older version till they get it fixed. I also prefer my notes listed right under the verse not to the side. Much easier for when I am teaching lessons to have them right where the eye can follow not jumping back and forth.

I was confused by this as well! Thanks bclawson for the tip! Just tapping on an existing highlight the trash button will come up. I had accidentally highlighted some verses multiple times so you may have to "tap" and "trash" multiple times to get the verse to completely un-highlight. Overall, I really like 3.0, especially now that I can remove accidental highlights. Thanks again!

bclawson suggestion works. Thanks very much.

Thank you jdhoffman! The "tap and trash" advice for highlights was perfect. Pretty frustrated til I found your tip!

Tap the highlighted verse, then the trash can icon that pops up. For me I have to tap the trash can about 3 times before the highlight disappears.

I'm unable to delete highlights using the hit trash multiple times. I speculate this is because it does a default highlight every time I go in to remove the highlight. IOW, I mark and unmarked every time I go in. I cannot press the trash can multiple times in succession because the first Tim dismisses the dialog box. Suggestions?

Jim

I have the same problem. I installed the gospel app on Christmas day on this new android tablet and inadvertently highlighted 2 words. I've tried all of your suggestions to unhighlight but I can't. In fact, in the process I have highlighted more words which also don't let me unhighlight them. I have not synced to lds.org. If I remove the content and redownload the app will that remove the hightlights? But I cannot do that every time a mistake is made.

If its a known bug, I guess I can live with it until a resolution comes.

Any help is appreciated!
thanks
Stuart

So I am able to answer my problem. Firstly, go to your father! I normally help my dad with his IT issues seeing as how I know a little bit from work etc. But I never had a tablet until Christmas day and now he's showing my things! I'm OK with that! So what you have to do is long-tap the highlighted section and the little small square boxes on the side come up. Tap the top box and then tap the trash can icon below. This will erase the highlight. He did it several times because in my trying to erase the highlights I layered them. Now, I thought I did what he did, in fact I am sure I did, but it didn't work for me only for him. Maybe its his touch!

So anyway try that and see if it works. email me: stuartsampson@caribsurf.com if you think I can be of more help, I doubt it though!

How do you delete highlighting in GL 3.3.3 on iphone 5? I do not have a trash bin icon, when I long tap to highlight text the icon menu contains only these 5 options: notation, tag, link, highlight and the arrow box which leads to messaging, mail, copy, print, notebook and bookmark. Thanks for any help you can give!

I had the same problem. If you tap the annotation boxes on the right the trash can appears. In attempting to delete the original highlights I created several layers. So I had to click on the annotation boxes several times but it worked.

i just found something that works. I log in to my LDS account and go to the scripture that I have unfortunately highlighted several times before realizing I can now only undo the current one, not the old ones.

I go to my online scriptures, I see only one highlight is recognized even though I have multiple on my iPad, both the 2.5 which I have kept and my 3.0 version. I hover my mouse over the highlight that shows, click on "edit note", then click on the trash can that appears and when the question box comes up asking if I really want to delete it I click ok. The highlight selection now disappears. I refresh the scripture page I am on and a new past highlight appears, so the earlier layer of my mistake. I go through the same process. When I check my device I notice that the colour mix-up of multiple old highlights is changing as I am one at a time removing old highlights. I just checked, I am done, the highlightings are now ALL GONE, yay!

bclawson wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:03 pm I found that just tapping on the existing highlight will bring up the menu with the trash can. Selecting the verse again allows me to overlap highlights but not delete existing ones. Please be aware that deleting the highlight also deletes links, notes, and tags as well.

this is the fix. thanks

I dont want to delete the tag or note. I just want to delete highlights

You can "hide" the highlight by changing it's color to transparent (on my android it's the black & white checkered boxes color) in the color selections.