Having to hold your finger down, wait a few moments, and then select "Highlight" is clunky and inefficient. If you make this one simple change, I could eliminate all the other PDF annotation programs on my iPad!

@Pavla As in Goodnotes 6 now, selecting texts in a good PDF is difficult. It now select words and cannot select lines. I suppose it's because of the AI function and a sentence is now cut to words by AI.

And it's weird to just add a draw straight lines option. Highlighting texts is a normal function in PDF Expert, Marginnotes, and Apple Preview, etc. But it's still missing in version 6.

@Ariel, regarding “At least in a good PDF (text or OCR, not just scanned images), you can highlight by selecting the text (hold your finger down on the text for a few seconds) and then choosing "Highlight". It will highlight in yellow. You can change the color using the lasso tool.”

although this is an option, it is a very inconenient way and slows down the worflow and is clumsy: even with a pencil, you first need to hold the tip on a word until it gets selected. then grab the handles and select the rest of the text that you wish to highligt. Then you need to pick “highlight” from the context menu. This is nothing close to just drawing with the pencil or finger over the desired sentences and let the app do its magic. Any pdf reader is capable of this, so I gather it cannot be that demanding feature, and it would really help with reading/study while taking notes.

At least in a good PDF (text or OCR, not just scanned images), you can highlight by selecting the text (hold your finger down on the text for a few seconds) and then choosing "Highlight". It will highlight in yellow. You can change the color using the lasso tool.

If there's a setting to change the default highlight color, I can't find it.