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macOS Catalina's Preview App Lets You Sign Documents on Mac Using iPhone or iPad

In macOS Catalina (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-10-15/), the Preview app has a new feature that makes it easier to sign PDFs and other documents by leveraging an iPhone or an iPad (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad/) running the iOS 13 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-13/)/iPadOS (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipados/) operating system.





Rather than using the Trackpad to create a signature, or scanning a piece of paper, you can connect to your iPhone or <!---->iPad<!----> to sign there using either a finger or an Apple Pencil (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-pencil/).





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In the Preview app, under Tools > Annotate > Signature > Manage Signatures > Create Signatures, there is a new option to choose to create a signature with an iOS device. Clicking on this option lets you select an available iPhone or <!---->iPad<!----> to use.





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Devices running iOS 12 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-12/) will show up in this list, but creating a signature only works on a device running <!---->iOS 13<!---->. Selecting an iPhone or <!---->iPad<!----> with <!---->iOS 13<!----> will pop up a simple signature interface on the device in question, where you can sign with a finger on the iPhone or a finger or <!---->Apple Pencil<!----> on <!---->iPad<!---->.





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After you've signed, tap the done button, and your signature is instantly made available in the Preview app as an option to be inserted into your documents.





<img src="(http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2019/06/signaturespreview.jpg)" alt="" width="360" height="309" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-696874" />


We needed to have the devices unlocked to get the signature interface to pop up, but this may be a bug that will be addressed in a later beta.





You can already sign PDFs right on the iPhone or <!---->iPad<!----> using Markup features, but the new Preview option is a useful, streamlined way to get a signature on a document if you start the process using a Mac.

<div class="linkback">Related Roundup: macOS Catalina (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-10-15/)</div>
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Source: macOS Catalina's Preview App Lets You Sign Documents on Mac Using iPhone or iPad (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/06/macos-catalina-preview-ios-sign-documents/)