Once you’re happy with your signature, you can add a description to make it easier to distinguish between multiple different signature images, then click the Done button. Since my Mac doesn’t have a trackpad, that option is disabled, and I habitually keep my webcams covered for privacy, so I’ll use my iPhone for this tutorial – and no, I won’t be using my real signature 😉 Click the Select Device button, and select any of your available iOS devices. You can use your iPhone or iPad touchscreen to create a signature.You can sign a piece of white paper and then hold it up to your Mac’s camera for scanning.You can use a trackpad if you’re on a Macbook or you have a trackpad connected to your desktop Mac.Since you’ve never created a digital signature before on any of your Apple devices, the popup menu will display three different methods you can use to create one: Within the Markup toolbar, click the Sign icon (as shown above).

You can also open the View menu and click Show Markup Toolbar.

To open the Markup toolbar, click the Show Markup Toolbar button in the upper right of the Preview window, or use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + A. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the Markup toolbar gives you access to a range of special features, including digital signing tools. To get started, open your PDF document in Preview and then open the Markup toolbar. You can even store multiple signatures and variations of your signature, such as one for your first name only, another for your initials, another for your full name, and so on.

Creating a signature takes a few minutes, but it is a huge timesaver in the long term since you only have to create your signature once, and then you can add it to any document with just a couple of clicks.

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