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title: "iOS drag and drop annotations in PDFs | Nutrient SDK"
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last_updated: "2026-06-08T09:14:14.393Z"
description: "Create and customize PDF annotations effortlessly by dragging and dropping text, images, or PDFs onto your document page using Nutrient iOS SDK."
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# Drag-and-drop annotations on iOS

Nutrient iOS SDK enables you to create annotations by dragging and dropping elements onto a document page. These elements are then converted into PDF annotations. Here’s the list of currently supported drop interactions:

- Dropping text on a document page. The text will be converted into a free text annotation.

- Dropping an image on a document page. The image will be converted into an image stamp annotation.

- Dropping a PDF on a document page. The PDF will be converted into an image stamp annotation of the first page of the dropped document.

To learn more about how to configure drag and drop, check out the [drag-and-drop configuration guide](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/features/drag-and-drop.md).
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## Related pages

- [Define annotation behavior with flags on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/annotation-flags.md)
- [How to embed files in PDF annotations on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/create-edit-and-remove/attach-a-file.md)
- [Annotations object model on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/the-annotation-object-model.md)
- [Setting annotation authors on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/annotation-author-name.md)
- [Detect changes to PDF annotations in iOS apps](/guides/ios/annotations/detecting-if-annotations-have-changed.md)
- [Defining annotation blend modes on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/annotation-blend-modes.md)
- [Disable PDF annotation editing for iOS users](/guides/ios/annotations/create-edit-and-remove/disable-editing.md)
- [Image picker: Add image annotations to PDFs on iOS](/guides/ios/miscellaneous/image-picker.md)
- [Annotation state manager on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/annotation-state-manager.md)
- [Programmatically create PDF annotations on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/programmatically-creating-annotations.md)
- [Z-index for annotation stacking order on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/annotation-z-index.md)
- [Undo and redo annotations on iOS](/guides/ios/features/undo-redo.md)