eSign PDF Guide
Your landlord emailed the lease. You don't have a printer. Here's how to sign every page, fill in your details, and send it back in 5 minutes flat.
Apartment leases are the most common multi-page document people need to sign quickly. They arrive as email attachments, usually 5-15 pages, and need to be returned within a day or two. Most people don't have a printer at home anymore. And even if they do, printing a 10-page lease, signing every page, scanning it back in, and emailing a 50MB file is a painful process. Your phone can handle the entire thing. Import the PDF, sign every page that needs it, fill in your name and the date, and send back a clean, professional document.
Leases are the worst-case scenario for Apple Markup. They're multi-page (Markup's signature bug territory). They need your signature on multiple pages plus initials. They need the date on every signed page. They often have checkboxes for terms you agree to. And they're legally binding documents that need tamper protection. Markup can handle exactly one of these things (the signature) and even that is unreliable on pages after the first. A lease-signing workflow needs reliable multi-page signing, a date stamp tool, a text tool for your name and address, checkboxes, and flattened export. eSign PDF has all of these. Import the lease, let AI detection highlight where to sign and date, fill in your information, and export a tamper-proof PDF.
When your landlord emails the lease, tap the PDF attachment and save it to your Files app. Or open it directly from the email and use the Share Sheet to send it to eSign PDF. The app handles leases of any length.
Draw your signature with your finger or Apple Pencil. Choose from Fountain, Ballpoint, Monoline, or Marker pen styles. Or type your name and pick a handwriting font. Your signature is saved permanently so you only do this once.
Navigate through the lease using page thumbnails. Place your signature and initials on every page that requires them. Use the date tool to add today's date. Fill in your name, address, phone number, and any other tenant information using the text tool. Check agreement boxes.
Tap Done to finalize. The PDF is flattened so nothing can be changed after you sign. Email it back to your landlord or share via any method. Save a copy to your Files app for your records. Done in 5 minutes.
eSign PDF was designed for exactly this scenario. Multi-page documents with signatures, dates, and form fields on every page. AI highlights where to sign. Your signature is saved for reuse. Date stamps auto-fill. The export is tamper-proof. No printer, no scanner, no account needed. Just open the lease, sign it, and send it back.
Yes. Under the ESIGN Act and UETA, electronic signatures on leases are legally binding in all 50 US states. Your landlord legally cannot refuse an electronic signature unless it was specifically excluded in the lease terms.
Some landlords still say this out of habit. Politely point out that e-signatures are legally valid under federal law. If they truly insist, draw your signature with Apple Pencil in eSign PDF and export it. It looks identical to a scanned wet signature.
Create a separate initials signature in eSign PDF (just your initials instead of full signature). Place it on each page that requires initialing. The app saves both your full signature and initials for reuse.
You can add text annotations to mark changes, but editing the original PDF text isn't what e-signature apps do. If you need lease modifications, discuss changes with your landlord first, get a revised PDF, then sign the final version.