Last updated: August 10th, 2026 at 23:20 UTC+02:00
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No. Samsung has just altered the option slightly.
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Samsung Notes is a feature-rich note-taking and drawing app, and Samsung adds new capabilities to it almost every year. After a recent update, however, some users reported that they could no longer find the straight highlighter tool.
Addressing user feedback, a Samsung Notes community forum moderator explained that Samsung combined the regular highlighter and the straight highlighter into a single tool. To draw a straight line, users simply need to enable the ‘Straighten Lines' toggle in the Highlighter tool's option menu.
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Highlighter tools and its Straighten Lines option in the Samsung Notes app
Earlier, there were four highlighter pens:
Samsung made this change to maintain consistency across its toolset, as the Straighten Lines option is now available for every pen in the Samsung Notes app. The company is also testing a feature to drag handwritten text to make it easier to make room in a note.
In addition to straightening highlights, users can customize a highlight's color, opacity, and width to match the text they are marking up.
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Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S23 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.
