Apple Books Highlights Export: How to Save and Review Your Notes | Chapterly Blog
Apple Books Highlights Export: How to Save and Review Your Notes If you read on an iPhone or iPad, Apple Books is the default reading app, and its highlighting and note-taking features are genuinely good. The frustration comes when you want to actually do something with those highlights. Apple Books highlights export is one of the most requested features that Apple has never properly addressed. Unlike Kindle, which stores highlights on Amazon's servers and makes them accessible through read.amazon.com, Apple Books keeps your annotations locked in the app ecosystem. But there are ways to get them out. This guide covers every method available in 2026. Why Export Your Highlights? Before diving into how, let's talk about why. Most people highlight passages while reading and then never see those highlights again. Research on how to remember what you read consistently shows that highlighting alone does not improve retention. The value of highlighting comes from what you do with those highlights afterward. Exporting your highlights lets you: Review them systematically using spaced repetition Organize them by theme across multiple books Use them as the basis for writing or discussion Import them into learning tools like Chapterly for AI-powered review Create a searchable...