Release Notes

The Black Highlighter version history.

• September 22, 2025 2025.6

  Black Highlighter 2025.6 cleans up a few things.

• September 15, 2025 2025.5

  Black Highlighter 2025.5 builds in support for Apple’s September 2025 releases with a whole bunch of new features.

• July 30, 2025 2025.4

  Black Highlighter 25.4 improves bug tracking and fixes Shortcuts issues.

• July 16, 2025 2025.3

  Black Highlighter 25.3 is a quick bug fix.

• July 14, 2025 2025.2

  Black Highlighter 25.2 adds several ways to quickly get to the document scanner, expands Shortcuts integration, and improves the purchase experience.

• July 2, 2025 2025.1

  Black Highlighter 25.1 makes several improvements in Shortcuts.

• March 4, 2025 2025.0

  Black Highlighter 25.0 adds a whole new tool, the Magic Lasso, along with a number of other changes and fixes.

• December 9, 2024 2024.5

  Black Highlighter 24.5 makes a few minor improvements.

• October 31, 2024 2024.4

  Black Highlighter 24.4 fixes a bug when running on iOS 18 or newer where using the Magic Highlighter didn’t line up with where you placed your finger.

• August 12, 2024 2024.3

  Black Highlighter 24.3 brings major updates when using the Apple Pencil with Black Highlighter.

• June 26, 2024 2024.2

  Black Highlighter 24.2 brings a lot of small improvements to your redacting experience!

• June 2, 2024 2024.1

  Black Highlighter 24.1 is focused on improving the Ultra Highlighter auto-redaction features.

• April 16, 2024 2024.0

  This release of Black Highlighter comes with a bunch of bug fixes!

• August 25, 2023 2023.3

  This release fixes an issue that caused Black Highlighter to crash on launch on iOS 15.

  Special thanks to Black Highlighter user “mononz” for assisting with tracking down this issue!

• May 18, 2023 2023.2

  Black Highlighter 23.2 fixes an issue where the initial “preview” of detected text would not appear.

• May 8, 2023 2023.1

  Black Highlighter 23.1 comes with a new set of bug fixes.

• March 14, 2023 2023.0

  Black Highlighter 23.0 introduces support for redacting text at any angle.

• October 31, 2022 2022.8

  This version fixes a common bug with exporting. It also includes several other bug fixes and an update to the toolbar on iPad.

• August 8, 2022 2022.7

  Black Highlighter 22.7 improves the Magic Highlighter’s accuracy, especially when redacting small words such as “it” or “as”.

• August 4, 2022 2022.6

  This release fixes a bug with Shortcuts where the “Redact Image” action would not use the set of words you had entered.

• July 22, 2022 2022.5

  This release improves many parts of Black Highlighter for users of accessibility technologies such as VoiceOver and Switch Control.

• May 30, 2022 2022.4

  The last version of the Mac app that went out had an app icon with square corners instead of the standard squircular corners. My apologies. The icon has now been resquircularized. Thank you for your patience and understanding in these trying times.

• May 19, 2022 2022.3

  Black Highlighter 22.3 comes with a small dose of AutoMAYtion goodies.

• April 4, 2022 2022.2

  Black Highlighter 22.2 brings you a whole lot of bug fixes and polish.

• March 1, 2022 2022.1

  Black Highlighter 22.1 includes a new feature: Find mode. With Find mode, you can type in a word you’d like to redact (such as a person’s name) and with a single tap, Black Highlighter automatically finds and hides every occurrence of that word.

• January 9, 2022 2022.0

  On iOS and iPadOS, this release fixes a few cosmetic issues.

• December 13, 2021 2021.8

  Fixed the color picker button not working on iPad.

  oops

• October 8, 2021 2021.7

  Just a minor bug fix here. This version fixes an issue that prevented saving in the Mac app. You should now be free to save away!

• September 4, 2021 2021.6

  It’s the iPad update! A lot of work has gone into making this version the best iPad app it can be.

• June 18, 2021 2021.5

  This is the “make life a little nicer” update. We’ve gone and fixed a ton of the little papercuts in Black Highlighter to make using it a better experience.

• April 17, 2021 2021.4

  This update introduces a new tool to the Black Highlighter toolset: the Magic Era… er, the eraser. The totally normal eraser.

• March 22, 2021 2021.3

  More bug fixes to make your redacting experience even better.

• February 26, 2021 2021.2

  Bug fixes! One for you and one for me.

• February 15, 2021 2021.1

  Just cleaning up a few of the “initial version” hiccups for the Mac version of Black Highlighter.

• February 8, 2021 2021.0

  This is a fairly major update to Black Highlighter with several new features to check out.

• July 7, 2020 2020.1

  Potentially fixed a bug where photo exports were only a solid black rectangle. Please contact support if this continues to be an issue.

• February 3, 2020 2020.0

  This release improves the performance and stability of Black Highlighter when editing large photos, such as those taken by newer iPhones.

• September 24, 2019 2019.4

  We’ve made a new tool available to you: the Ultra Highlighter.

• September 2, 2019 2019.3

  Just cleaning up a few things before a major release coming Real Soon Now™.

• July 9, 2019 2019.2

  You can now use Black Highlighter’s editing tools from inside other apps as an action. Try it out in the Photos app!

• June 26, 2019 2019.1

  Black Highlighter now supports hiding text in ALL photos, not just screenshots.

• November 26, 2018 1.1

  Includes a number of basic bug fixes.

• May 28, 2018 1.0.1

  Support for iPhone X and a crash fix.

• May 31, 2017 1.0

  Initial app release.