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Books app not working since update to iOS 13

Just updated my iPad to iOS 13.1 and the Books app is now unusable. Clicking on a book causes the app to completely freeze until it’s restarted. Tried the update to 13.1.1 but the problem persists. I miss my books, please help!

iPad (5th gen) Wi-Fi

Posted on Sep 27, 2019 11:41 AM

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Posted on Apr 14, 2020 2:29 AM

SOLUTION! -- I was getting this same screen after updating to iOS 13.4.1, found this thread, and tried everything mentioned here without success. I started thinking about what had changed and realized that I'd turned on "dark mode" during the upgrade process. I turned that off (in Settings->Display and Brightness), quit books and restarted, and it moved on to the next screen where it takes a few minutes to update your library. Once that was done, I was able to turn "dark mode" back on and could still access my library afterward. There's obviously a bug in the update process that causes it to crash when dark mode is on when it rebuilds the index for your library. Hope this helps everyone!

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Books app not working since update to iOS 13

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