Numerous PDF password prompts

I get this error on many, many PDFs when opening in iOS: “Without the owner password, you do not have permission to save this document.” I’ve tried opening in Acrobat, which says the document is read-only.

These aren’t password protected documents created by an individual involved in my transactions. They’re downloaded from public webpages. They’re unfilled forms. They’re sent to me by people on a PC expecting me to be able to open them. Everyone in the transaction NOT on iOS is utterly bewildered, and they tell me they can open and fill it without an issue.

Forum searches say the publisher will need to remove the protection, but this is happening with forms promulgated by giant banks and the State of Texas, so that’s not happening. Sure, I can screenshot and manually fill the forms, but I shouldn’t have to (and all the more reason this “password protection” is hogwash; it doesn’t protect anything, it just adds unnecessary steps).

Anyway. I wish someone somewhere would figure this out. A universal password, a way to save as editable, a way to fill and print without saving, *anything* but this endless waste of time.