Have books on cloud but still have them downloaded on my phone

I read a lot of books and pdfs on my phone, and a lot that I download from internet, and so things not on the Books store. I have them on iCloud in case my phone ever dies, but because they are on the cloud, I have to constantly redownload them - and since i’m on the road a lot, I don’t have data for this.


Is there a way to have my pdfs and books on the cloud, but still have them all downloaded on my phone, so i don’t have to download them all the time?

The photo shows how they’re all not downloaded, I’m annoyed with having to download them every time I wanna read and wasting my data, since I read fast.

iPhone SE, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 19, 2019 3:00 PM

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Posted on May 14, 2019 7:06 AM

If you tap on the cloud icon, it should download and remain downloaded unless you manually delete it or your device is running low on storage space.


If it reverts downloads to iCloud very often make sure you have at least 10GB of storage free, otherwise it tends to remove them to make space, even if books may not take up that much space.


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May 14, 2019 7:06 AM in response to PaulOkrema

If you tap on the cloud icon, it should download and remain downloaded unless you manually delete it or your device is running low on storage space.


If it reverts downloads to iCloud very often make sure you have at least 10GB of storage free, otherwise it tends to remove them to make space, even if books may not take up that much space.


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