Merge PDF files on your iPhone

How to merge PDF files on iPhone with Scanfone

1. Open Scanfone and make sure every document you need is in the app: scan paper pages or import PDFs from Files or your photos.
2. Choose Merge and select the documents you want to combine.
3. Check the order. Reorder, rotate or delete pages until it reads the way it should.
4. Save the merged PDF.
5. Share it, print it or save it to Files.

One file is better than seven attachments

Applications, claims and onboarding forms love to ask for "all documents in a single PDF". You have a scanned passport, two payslips, a utility bill and a signed form, all in different places. Merging PDFs on your iPhone with Scanfone turns that pile into one document you can upload or email in one go.

Merge works on anything inside Scanfone: fresh scans from the camera, PDFs you imported from Files or Mail, and photos you turned into PDFs with JPG to PDF. Mix and match as you like.

Combine, then tidy up

After you combine PDF files, open the result and make it presentable. You can reorder pages so the cover letter comes first, rotate the one page you scanned sideways, and delete the blank back side that sneaked in. The merged file is a normal multi-page PDF, so it opens in any PDF reader on the other end.

• Combine scans, imported PDFs and photos into one PDF.
• Reorder, rotate and delete pages after merging.
• Text recognition (OCR) runs on your phone, so the merged PDF stays searchable. See OCR.
• Sign the combined document with sign PDF if it needs a signature.

Too big to upload? Compress it

Merged scans can get large, and plenty of upload forms still cap files at a few megabytes. Once your documents are combined, run the file through compress PDF to make it smaller before you send it. Going the other way, if you only need part of a long PDF, split PDF pulls it apart again.

No paywall when you hit save

Some scanner apps treat merging as a premium trick, or let you build the whole document and then ask for a subscription at the export step. That is a mean time to ask. In Scanfone, merging, saving, sharing and printing are free and unlimited, with no ads and no account.

Free PDFs get one small line under each page, "Scanned free with Scanfone". It sits below the content, never over it. Scanfone Pro removes it, along with adding sync and a 1 TB backup, for $2.99 the first year, then $19.99 a year.

Private by default

The documents people merge tend to be the sensitive ones: IDs, payslips, bank statements, medical letters. Scanfone does the work on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded unless you turn on Pro sync, and there is no tracking or analytics. Prefer step-by-step instructions? Read how to merge PDFs on iPhone.

Common things to merge

A few real-world bundles where merging PDFs saves a lot of fiddling:

• Rental applications: ID, proof of income, references and a signed form in one file.
• Expense claims: a month of receipt scans combined into one PDF for your finance team.
• Visa and passport paperwork: passport scan, photos, bank statements and letters, in the order the checklist asks for.
• School and university forms: transcripts, certificates and a cover letter.
• Home admin: all the pages of a contract you scanned on two different days.

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