Apple Books settings

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Apple Books settings

i really hope someone can help me!

I am ‘low vision’ and really depend on my iPad for a lot. I’ve recently started reading with the app provided… and I’ve somehow changed my settings to black letters on black background! I cannot read this🤦🏻‍♀️ what have I done to myself?

I think I tried to make the letters slightly larger. And now I’m… well, I can’t do anything for thinking about this😂 I’m sure it’s something simple, but I can’t see to figure out how to fix it. Has anyone else so thoroughly sabatoged themselves in so maddening a manner and been able to escape?

It’s iBooks on iPad and it’s all the books, but no other apps have changed. Tge iPad has not otherwise changed. I’m running the latest iOS and everything is tge latest update. (It’s an iPad 2, though); I’m wondering if deleting and reinstalling the app will reset it (hate to do that) or if there’s some way to reset everything to default and then redo my preferred giant letter settings.)

Any ideas? TiA!

iPad 2, iOS 9

Posted on Mar 31, 2023 12:24 PM

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Drew_7

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Apr 4, 2023 1:11 PM in response to Spiridio

Hi Spiridio,

There are a couple ways to you can modify text on your iPad, and we'd like to share some resources that may help get your Books app back to working as expected. Get started with the guidance listed in the following user guide: Read books in the Books app on iPad - Apple Support

Change the text and page appearance

1. Tap the page, tap at the bottom of the page, tap Themes & Settings, then do any of the following:

* Change the font size: Tap the large A to increase the font size or tap the small A to decrease it.

* Change the font: Tap Options, tap Font, select a font option such as Georgia or Palatino, then tap Done.

* Turn on vertical scrolling: Tap to scroll continuously through a book.

* For PDFs, tap , at the top of the screen then turn on Vertical Scrolling.

* Change the page turn style: Tap or then choose an option (iPadOS 16.4 or later).

* Adjust the display brightness: Tap , then choose an option.

* Change the page background color: Tap a page theme such as Quiet or Bold.

* Make the font bold: Tap Options, then turn on Bold Text (green is on).

* Customize spacing and justification: Tap Options, turn on Customize (green is on), then drag the sliders left or right to adjust line spacing, character spacing, and word spacing. You can also turn Full Justification and Allow Multiple Columns off or on (green is on).

2. Tap or swipe down to close the menu.

3. Note: You can choose on which side of the screen the menu button appears. Go to Settings > Books, then choose Left or Right below Reading Menu Position.

To undo text and layout customizations, tap Options, tap Reset Theme, then tap Done.

You can also find general display and text changes here: Adjust the display and text size on iPad - Apple Support

Regards.

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