- Add, edit, reply, or delete comments
- Assign tasks and action items
Comment options
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a file in the Google Docs app.
- Select the text or cell and tap Add Comment.
- Add your text.
- Tap Done
.
After you tap a cell or text with a comment, then tap View comment, you can:
- Edit a comment: Tap More
Edit. Make your changes, then tap Done
.
- Reply to a comment: At the bottom of the comment, tap Reply.
- Resolve a comment: At the bottom of a comment, tap Resolve.
- Move between comments: Swipe left or right.
- Delete comment: Tap More
Delete.
- Return to editing view: Swipe down on the comment area in the document, spreadsheet, or presentation.
To make sure someone sees a comment, you can add them to it. They will receive an email notification with your comment.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a file in the Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides app.
- Insert and type a comment.
- Somewhere in your comment, add the name. When the correct person is suggested, tap their name. You can also add the email address of the person you want to see the message.
- Tap Done
.
Note: The owner of a document will get notifications for all comments by default.
If someone suggests an edit to a document you own, you can accept or reject it. This is only available in Google Docs.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a file in the Google Docs app.
- To see the suggestion, tap Hidden Suggestion.
- Tap Accept or Reject.
Note: If you decide you don't like a suggestion you accepted, tap Undo.
Use & follow up on action items
Use comments to assign tasks or action items with your work or school account.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a file in the Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides app.
- Highlight the text, images, cells, or slides you want to comment on.
- To add a comment, tap Insert
.
- Tap Comment.
- Type your comment.
- Somewhere in your comment, add the email address, with @ or + in front of it, of the person you want to assign it to.
- Tap the box next to "Assign to [name]."
- Tap Done
. The person you assigned the action item to will get an email.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open a file in the Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides app.
- Tap the text with a comment.
- Tap View comment.
- Tap Reply.
- Type your comment.
- Somewhere in your comment, add the email address, with @ or + in front of it, of the person you want to assign it to.
- Tap the box next to "Reassign to [name]."
- Tap Done
. The person you assigned the action item to will get an email.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides app.
- In the top right corner of a document, tap the number. If you don’t see a number, you don’t have any follow ups for that document.
- You can see the number of open:
- Action items
- Suggestions
- To go to the first action item or suggestion, tap an option from the list.
- To close the menu, tap the number.