WPS Text Styles on iOS: Introduction

WPS Text Styles on iOS helps you apply common text formatting in smart documents; this guide covers 6 core tasks, with 6 available without membership and 0 membership-related items.

At a Glance

Metric	Value	Notes
Core tasks	6	Matches the number of rows in the How-to Index
Available without membership	6	Matches the number of Free rows in the index
Membership-related items	0	Matches the number of membership-related rows in the index

About This Feature

Overview

Text Styles is a text-formatting feature in WPS Office for iOS smart documents. It helps you adjust how selected text appears while editing. From the Aa panel at the bottom of the editor, you can apply bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font color, and highlight color.

Key capabilities include:

Bold text for headings, key points, and keywords.
Italic text for notes, references, or supporting content.
Underline for text that needs extra emphasis.
Strikethrough for content marked as completed, outdated, or pending removal.
Font color for visual hierarchy or status marking.
Highlight color for making important text easier to spot.

This feature is useful for meeting notes, study notes, document review, and quick mobile formatting.

System Requirements

Item	Requirement
Operating system	An iPhone or iPad that can run WPS Office normally
App version	It is recommended to use the latest version of WPS Office
Network	Text style editing does not require a constant connection; downloading, signing in, or syncing requires network access
Other	Open a smart document and enter editing mode to access text style controls

Download & Installation

Before using Text Styles, install WPS Office on your iPhone or iPad, sign in to your account, and open a smart document for editing.

Item	Details
Official download	WPS Office Free Download
Post-install check	Launch WPS Office, open a smart document, tap Edit in the lower-right corner, then tap Aa at the bottom to confirm that the text style area is available

Source: WPS download page

Compare with Alternatives

Dimension	WPS	Microsoft	Google	Notion	Adobe
Capability Summary	In iOS smart documents, you can use the bottom Aa panel to apply bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font color, and highlight color.	Word for iPad supports font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and highlight formatting.	Google Docs on iPhone and iPad supports bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font settings, text color, and highlight color.	Notion supports bold, italic, strikethrough, text color, highlight, and page-level typography styles.	Acrobat on iOS focuses on PDF markup and editing, with highlight, underline, strikethrough, and subscription-based PDF text editing tools.
WPS Advantages	Advantage: The main text-style controls are grouped in the bottom Aa panel, which keeps common formatting actions close together for quick mobile editing.	Compared with WPS: Word offers broader formatting depth, but controls are distributed across the Home tab and formatting menus.	Compared with WPS: Google Docs covers similar everyday text styles, but actions are grouped under the Format menu.	Compared with WPS: Notion is more focused on page composition and block-based writing, with less traditional document-style text formatting control.	Compared with WPS: Adobe is more focused on PDF review and annotation than native document text styling.
Official Source	—	Format your Word document	Change how paragraphs and fonts look	Style and customize your page	Work with PDFs

Overall Conclusion
If you mainly need quick text emphasis and annotation in smart documents on iPhone or iPad, WPS Text Styles provides a short, direct editing path. If your work centers more on complex document systems, block-based collaboration, or PDF review, the other products are oriented toward those different scenarios.

Use Cases

No.	Scenario	Suitable for	Main challenge	How Text Styles helps
1	Highlighting meeting notes	Workplace users	Key decisions are easy to miss	Use bold and highlight color for conclusions and action items
2	Organizing study notes	Students and self-learners	Content hierarchy is unclear	Use font color and underline to separate concepts and definitions
3	Reviewing drafts	Editors and writers	Removed or changed content is hard to track	Use strikethrough to mark text for removal
4	Improving heading hierarchy	Document authors	Pages lack visual structure	Use bold and italic to separate headings from supporting text
5	Marking content status	Team users	Different statuses blend together	Use different colors and highlights to distinguish status

Membership & Benefits

Free vs WPS Premium

Feature area	Free users	WPS Premium
Basic text styles in smart documents	Available	Available
Basic PDF features	Available	Available
Template downloads	Limited	More advanced templates and expanded content
Cloud storage	1 GB	More cloud storage
Some advanced features	Available depending on feature access	More advanced features available

Source: WPS Office pricing page

Recommendations

Usage scenario	Recommended plan	Why
Everyday smart document editing and basic text emphasis	Free	Core Text Styles actions are available for light editing needs
More advanced features, more cloud storage, or broader template access	WPS Premium	A better fit for users who work across devices and need expanded tools

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