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How to sync Apple Books from Mac to iPad

AstonJ

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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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Hallski

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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

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

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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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That’s a setting after you enable iCloud Drive,

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