A nice new feature hidden inside the iOS 9 beta that has gone unnoticed until now is the ability to save things as a PDF. A new “Save as PDF” option is now available in the Share sheet when viewing webpages, photos, notes, and more.
The ability to save different things as a PDF has long been a feature in OS X — and it’s an incredibly useful one. Rather than printing important documents or webpages that you know you’ll need access to later, you can simply save them locally.
Now the same feature is available in iOS 9, as discovered by Six Colors, and it’s available via the same Share sheet you would use to print, send, and save things inside your apps. Just look out for the “Save PDF to iBooks” button.“Say you’re looking at a picture in Photos, a note in Notes, or a webpage in Safari,” Six Colors explains. “You can turn any of those into a PDF that’s automatically dropped into iBooks, alongside any other PDFs you’ve saved there.”
Once your PDF is saved, you can do all sorts of things with it, such as share it with friends or colleagues, edit and annotate it in PDF management apps, and upload it to services like Dropbox — so you can access it from anywhere later.
Being available in the Share sheet also suggests the Save to PDF feature will be available to third-party apps as well as Apple’s own, though developers will need to make their apps compatible with it first.
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