Category: Tips & Tricks

1. Sort Order. Choose Traditional (in book order) or Relevance.
2. Advanced. Once you’re in Search mode, switch Advanced to ON to see more options for refining your search results:
3. Version. Select the Bible translation you want to search.
4. Section. Choose Old Testament, New Testament, or both.
5. Book. Select the specific book(s) of the Bible where you want to search.
6. Instant Results. Based on the options you’ve selected, your search results display—in context—at the bottom of the screen. Simply tap one to jump to it in the Bible Reader. Try a new search from the “Reference or Keyword” text field at the top, and your results update instantly.
7. Search History. Tap the clock face button (top right) to display your previous searches. (More details below.)

• Cancel. Tap the [Cancel] button to return to the Advanced Search screen.
• Previous Search. Tap a previous search to once again see its results on the Advanced Search screen. (You can even refine those results with the Advanced features.)
• Clear. Tap the [Clear] button to empty your Search History.

• Highlights. Now, if you like, you can bring some of your favorite features from paper Bibles to your personal Bible App account. (Instructions for how to highlight are in the next section below.)
  • New Bible readers. Highlights are a great way you can mark verses you enjoy, or that speak to you in special ways, so you can easily spot them later.
  • Experienced Bible readers. If you’ve been highlighting in your Bible for years, you’ll realize quickly that Bible App highlights work pretty much just as you’d expect.
• Sync Your Highlights. When you add a highlight in the Bible App on any device, you’ll see your highlight on any YouVersion platform that supports that feature.

• Tap a verse (or more than one) to select it.
• Bottom right: Tap the sharing icon that appears.
• Tap the color you want your highlight to be.
  OR
  Tap the rainbow to select a custom color: 
  • Drag the color picker icon to select your color.
  • Lighter/Darker: Slide the shading bar.
  • Bottom: A sample of your color displays.
  • Tap Choose.

To remove a highlight:

• Tap the highlighted verse(s) whose highlights you want to remove.
• Bottom right: Tap the sharing icon that appears.
• Tap the bright red ‘X’ selection.

• Tap the verse(s) you want to bookmark.
• Bottom right: Tap the sharing icon that appears.
• Tap Bookmark.
• Optional: If you selected more verses than you intended to bookmark, tap the list and remove the ones you want to.
• Optional: Select a highlight color.
• Optional: Name your bookmark with a title.
• Optional: Add a label(s) to your bookmark to categorize it for faster future reference (like Counseling, Encouragement, Fundamentals, etc.).

Use bookmarks to label verses you want to share with friends, to enhance your own personal studies, or however you want. The possibilities are truly only limited by your imagination and creativity.

• Enter fullscreen: Double-tap anywhere on the text portion of the screen. The Reader fills the entire screen, removing menus.
• Leave fullscreen: Double-tap anywhere on the text portion of the screen.

Simplified Navigation:

• Swipe Up/Down: Move backward/forward in current chapter.
• Swipe Left/Right: Jump to previous/next chapter in current book.

• Select the verses you want to work with.
• Bottom right: Tap the options icon.
• Your choices display, including:
  • Adding a note
  • Sharing
  • Copying
  • Bookmarking
  • Highlighting (with choice of colors)

• Top bar: Tap the chapter title.
• Tap Book, Chapter, or Verse to quickly jump directly where you want to go.
• Bottom bar: Select whether you want to view books in the order they appear in the translation you’re using, or alphabetically.