AstonJ

How to sync Apple Books from Mac to iPad

Just writing this up in case it helps anyone else because it wasn’t automatic.

First, connect you iPad to your Mac via a cable.
On your Mac open a finder window and on the left hand side click on your iPad under Locations
Click on the Books tab and then Sync books onto.. and All books
Click on General tab and under Options click Show this iPad when on Wi-Fi and Automatically sync when this iPad is connected

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Did it not work syncing through iCloud or did you have reasons to avoid syncing through Apples services?

I have mainly ebooks but a few random PDFs and they sync through iCloud. However you need to enable it in the icloud settings rather than in the ibook app settings.

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Hallski

Ah, on the Mac it seems to be in Books->Settings->General: “Sync collections, bookmarks and highlights across devices”.

On iOS there seem to be a setting in both iCloud and inside the books settings, to be honest I don’t know how they interact. I have both enabled.

With regards to iCloud Drive and Desktop & Documents you can disable those:

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Hallski

That’s a setting after you enable iCloud Drive,

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