Ibooks pdfs do not sync between devices?

From Lion onwards everything at Apple has been going downhill!

The easiest way I found to do this is just leave it open in safari on the first device and on the second device go to the "iCloud Tab", find the device it's open on and select the page to open it. Once the PDF is open on the second device select open in iBooks.

If you had saved it to a collection on the first device it will automatically go there on the second device.

Thanks so much for the tip to just email the .pdf to myself. That was an easy workaround after spending an hour trying to figure out how to sync iBook between my Mac and iPad.

Given the all but limitless resources at Apple's disposal, it beggar's belief that customers have to email documents back and forth to keep them in sync. Absolutely risible.

To make matters worse, Apple advertising entirely misrepresents what amounts to a poorly designed, terribly implemented, half-baked muddle.

Above all, the fact that threads are actually recommending Adobe as a better option for syncing on Mac says it all.

I can only agree - I have just spent an hour trying to figure out why my PDFs aren't sync-ing, before finding this thread and King Penguin saying it's all working fine when it doesn't work. I'm off to find another PDF library app.

Further to this, This link to give apple feedback on this consistently crashes safari!! (works in chrome)

Any update on this problem? I have PDF files and books on my iPhone iBook and others on Macbook iBook. Is there a way to share these files beside emailing them every time?

Apart from emailing them to yourself from the iBooks app (though not all PDFs support emailing, some might be protected), you can connect your phone to your Mac's iTunes and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy them from your phone over to your Mac (as well as copying actual ibooks that should copy epubs and/or PDFs), and then do File > Move Books From iTunes in your Mac's iBooks app to copy them over to your Mac's iBooks app - to get them from your Mac to your iPhone you can sync them via iTunes via the phone's Books tab, in a similar way to how you use its other tabs (Music, Apps etc) for syncing content from your Mac to it.

I believe you can sync your PDF's across devices simply by making sure they are first fully synced to iTunes and show up there.

Once they are there if you then sync the other devices to the same computer you should be able to select the PDF and have it show up in the other devices.

They won't automatically show without syncing to iTunes unless they were purchased from the iTunes store.

I may be missing something, but that seems to work.

If a PDF file DOES NOT transfer to iTunes or show up in iBooks it probably is NOT completely compatible. You will need to make another copy of the file or find a converter to make it into an EPUB file and then it will sync properly. I think this is a fairly common occurrence as there are many many different versions of PDF out there and they are NOT the same. Sadly once you have a bad PDF on iTunes I don't know how to remove it, because you won't see it in iBooks.

Yep, so the answer is iBooks does NOT sync at all as any other "sync" does or as it should... or as everyone clearly wants it to.

As for, "once it is on both devices... blah" - irrelevant rubbish. It does not sync the devices. Full stop.

Apple. Fix this.

I used to LOVE my iBooks syncing with all my devices; it was easy, it did it simply...each device literally is used for different situations in daily life; i.e. personal, business, fun, etc. Oh how I bragged about how easy and good iBooks was with even my NON Apple ePubs, how easy it would help me out. But, recently, with the latest and greatest update, all this has changed. I show ALL my books copied over to my Macbook in my iBooks and yet when I go to sync, it not only shows about 50 of them in the "Sync Books" window as I am syncing which is only about a quarter of my entire ePub content; but, each time i try to get the books to transfer into iTunes or out of iBooks, it will not let me...Yes, have toggled my iCloud button on my devices, yes, I have transferred content from devices to iTunes, yes, I have even "restored" a couple of devices to where ALL the books were showing, yes, upon syncing and restoring, I have answered that initial iCloud for iBooks "pop-up" that asks whether you want to "use iCloud" or "not now" when you first open your iBooks both ways...I have followed everything possible recommendation on every area that I can find to get this to work. But, still, I SEE all my books in my iBooks on my computer and still can't fully get that all back like I used to! I want my books to be on whatever individual device I choose as it once did; but, there is nothing easy about getting them there anymore. iCloud may be a good idea for certain things, like accessing my iPages sheets from a folder on each device, nice, and it is even "nifty" that you can add the iCloud Access on your screen of each device, but WHAT good is it if I can't access or retain ANY of my books - when I use "only sync items clicked" as an option to SYNC Only Clicked Items....I am NO LONGER a proponent and I can't read my files....(No, if I get asked "Did you click Hide Purchases Button?" again, I think I will scream. longer However, this NEW update...if ANYONE knows what little step I am missing to get those iBooks showing on my Macbook to copy fully into my iTunes where I can choose ANY of the books I have purchased from other sources, then please help. What am I missing? A simple one-step process?

So why did I just buy an expensive iCloud contract, if it just promises to do whatever my devices are already good at by themselves? My iPhone stores my iPhone data, my iPad stores my iPad data, so the iCloud should work as an off-device library that connects these local libraries - right? Right???

I bought iCloud because I can't find time nor patience for iTunes syncing. I've got 2 Mac Book Air (private and work). Don't want to back up via them. This is 2016. A cloud should enable wireless transfer without spending the whole evening going through a three step program with a computer as a third device.

What if I lose my iPhone. How will iCloud help me retrieve these data onto a new device when they are not able to display my data between the devices I already have?

Please remind me again - what am I getting from my new an expensive iCloud subscription that my devices don't already do for me?

Did you look at the date of that post ? If you had you would have seen that it was from three years ago. Have you checked to see what has changed in those three years ? As you appear not to have bothered : Use iCloud Drive or iBooks to access your PDF files, ePub files, and books - Apple Support

So why did I just buy an expensive iCloud contract

Don't know how you expect me to know why you bought an 'expensive iCloud contract'.

THANKS GUYS!

You helped me get ALL my pdfs, recipes, instruction manuals etc. etc. synced to my new iPad with these comments. The files DID transfer into their old categories as per my previous iPad!