Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF in Preview on Mac
You can use notes and speech bubbles to comment on text in a PDF. These items are often used in conjunction with the highlight, underline, and strikethrough tools.
Go to the Preview app
on your Mac.Open the PDF you want to change.
Do any of the following:
Add a note: If the Markup toolbar isn’t showing, click
. Click 
, then type text. To close the note, click anywhere on the PDF page. To change the note color, Control-click the closed note, then choose a color. You can drag the note to a different location.Add a speech bubble: Choose Tools > Annotate > Speech Bubble, then type new text. You can use typing suggestions, if available. To resize the speech bubble, drag a blue handle.
Edit a note: Click a note to view it, then type new text.
View all the notes in a PDF: Choose View > Highlights and Notes (so the Highlights and Notes menu item has a checkmark next to it). All the notes in the document are displayed in the sidebar.
Remove a note: Select the note in the sidebar, then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
Change or remove the author name: Your macOS login name is used as the note author name by default. To change the author name, choose Preview > Settings, click PDF, then type a different name in the Name field. To remove the author name, deselect the “Add name to annotations” checkbox.
Print notes: See Print PDFs and images.