How to Download Books from Apple Books How to Re-Download Books How to Sync Books on iPhone, iPad, and Mac How to Add PDFs from Anywhere to Apple Books App How to Customize Your Reading in Apple Books App How to Sort Your Books and Change Display Style How to Add a New Collection and Manage Them How to Hide Books from iBooks App How to Unhide Books from iBooks app How to Delete Books from iBooks App
How to Download Books from Apple Books
How to Redownload Deleted Books
You can re-download past purchased titles for free. The steps below also apply to free books that you may have downloaded in the past. Note: Hidden books may not appear in Library.
How to Sync Books on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
After you sign in to the Books app with your Apple ID on any device, all your titles are visible in the Library. However, to enjoy effortless syncing of your bookmarks, highlights, Reading Now collection, and added PDFs on all devices, you need to enable iCloud Drive for the Books app. Here is how to do that. On Mac: Open System Preferences → Apple ID → iCloud → Options next to iCloud Drive → check the box for Books and click Done. Next, open the Books app and click on Books from the top menu bar. After this, click on Preferences → General → check the box for Sync collections, bookmarks, and highlights across devices.
How to Add PDFs from Anywhere to Apple Books App
When you tap the share button in most inbuilt apps like Safari, Photos, Mail app, and third-party apps, you will see the Books option in the Share Sheet. This makes it possible to save several things to this app. You can even convert an image and save it as a PDF in the Books app! Here is how to do these.
From Safari: Visit a webpage. Let it load fully. Next, click on the Share icon. Horizontally swipe the row of app icons and tap on Books. The app will create a PDF and save it to the Books app. If iCloud Drive is enabled (above steps), then this PDF would be synced to all your Apple devices. From the Photos app: Open an image and tap on the Share icon. Next, tap on the Books app icon from the Share Sheet. The photo will be converted to PDF and added to the Books app. From the Notes app: Open a note and tap on the Share icon. Next, tap on Print. Place two fingers on the print thumbnail and expand it (zoom out/pinch outwards). Next, tap on the Share icon again. Finally, tap on Copy to Books. The note will be converted to PDF and get saved in the Books app. This method works for other apps too. From the Mail app: Open an email with an attachment. Tap on the attachment. Next, tap on the Share icon. Finally, tap on Books. Other Third-Party apps: You can save attachments from apps like WhatsApp to the Books app. All you have to do is tap the Share icon and then tap on Books or Copy to Books. This works universally across almost all apps.
How to Customize Your Reading in Apple Books App
How to Sort Your Books and Change Display Style
How to Add a New Collection and Manage Them
To add books and PDFs to the Collection tap on Library. Next, tap on Edit and select multiple books. Finally, tap on Add to… and tap on a Collection to add the selected titles to it. For single books, tap on the three-dots icon and then tap on Add to Collection. You may also copy books from one collection to another following the above methods. To re-arrange the Collections, touch on one and drag it up or down. To delete a Collection from the Books app, swipe right to left and tap Delete → Delete. Or, tap on Edit, and then tap on the red minus button and choose Delete. After you delete a Collection, the actual books and PDFs that were in it are not deleted.
How to Hide Books from iBooks App
Note: You can not hide the PDFs you added to the Books app. You can remove them from downloads or delete them altogether.
How to Unhide Books from iBooks app
How to Delete Books from iBooks App
You can hide a book (explained above), or you can remove a downloaded book. This will stop occupying the local storage of your iPhone. Just like apps, books’ downloads and purchases are also tied to your Apple ID. There is no way to dissociate the two permanently. For added PDFs, you can remove them from downloads, which frees up the local space. Or, you may also delete them permanently, which will remove the locally downloaded file as well as delete it from iCloud Drive and all other synced Apple devices. Signing off… This is how you can manage the Library of the Books app on your iPhone and iPad. Once you start using the app, it becomes easy to discover more features and tweaks. Additionally, you may also take a look at our list of the best ebook reader apps for iPhone and iPad. READ NEXT:
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