---
title: "Customizing note annotation icon on iOS | Nutrient SDK"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/annotations/customize-annotation-rendering/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/annotations/customize-annotation-rendering.md"
last_updated: "2026-06-08T19:21:59.220Z"
description: "There are various ways to customize how an annotation is shown and rendered on the page. for Nutrient iOS SDK."
---

# Customizing note icons on iOS

There are various ways to customize how an annotation is shown and rendered on the page.

## Customize or hide the note icon

A small note icon indicator is displayed next to the actual annotation when it has text attached to it. It can be attached to the annotation either by programmatically setting it via the [`contents`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/ios/documentation/pspdfkit/annotation/contents) property or by adding it in the UI via the Note... option in the menu.

The note icon can be customized or completely disabled by subclassing the corresponding class of the annotation type and overriding [`shouldDrawNoteIconIfNeeded`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/ios/documentation/pspdfkit/annotation/shoulddrawnoteiconifneeded):

### SWIFT

```swift

class CustomInkAnnotation: InkAnnotation {
    override var shouldDrawNoteIconIfNeeded: Bool {
        return false
    }
}

document.overrideClass(InkAnnotation.self, with: CustomInkAnnotation.self)

```

### OBJECTIVE-C

```objc

@interface PSCInkAnnotation : PSPDFInkAnnotation @end
@implementation PSCInkAnnotation

- (BOOL)shouldDrawNoteIconIfNeeded {
    return NO;
}

@end

[document overrideClass:PSPDFInkAnnotation.class withClass:PSCInkAnnotation.class];

```
---

## Related pages

- [Customizing PDF annotation appearance streams](/guides/ios/annotations/appearance-streams.md)
- [Customizing color presets on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/customizing-presets.md)
- [Configure annotation presets on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/changing-default-values-for-color-and-text-size-of-annotations.md)
- [Creating a fixed-sized annotation on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/fixed-size-annotations.md)
- [Hiding annotations on iOS](/guides/ios/annotations/disable-rendered-annotation-types.md)
- [Store custom data in iOS PDF annotations](/guides/ios/annotations/custom-data-in-annotations.md)