Hide or remove sensitive content

Documents offers a handy Redact tool to hide sensitive information in documents. You can quickly blackout or erase names, addresses, credit card numbers, and other data not intended for sharing.

Note: The app automatically permanently saves changes if you close the file or switch to another tab.

How to redact a PDF file

Open the document.
On the top toolbar, select Edit PDF.
Tap Redact .
Select the text to redact it. To cancel the redaction, tap on the toolbar.

There are two types of redaction in Documents:

Blackout (default) removes the selected content and puts a black box in its place.
Erase removes the text and leaves an empty space in its place.

To choose the redaction type, tap and hold on the Redact tool on the toolbar and select the needed option.

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