iPad offline reading list not working

I have exactly the same problem as Drew Reece described, and on ALL my 3 devices; my iPhone 5S, my brand new iPad mini 3 and on my company iPad 2. As soon as the wifi is switched off/out of range, the content disappears.

I went to an Apple Store to see a "specialist" or "technician" or whatever these people call themselves, and he was not able to fix it. He did some resets, changed some settings, emptied the cache all to no avail. The advice I got when I left was to do a complete restore and try it from there.

Grrrrreat...thank you Apple, another happy customer! 😟

Are you getting error message?

@ lizdance40 I'm talking about the reading glasses icon.

Yes, I tried it on mine and at first was NOT able to access content.

On the second try it came up.

I was a bit surprised. I didn't think it worked.

I have the same problem. This issue is 1 year old and no one from Apple gives a reply ?

jpiabrantes wrote:

This issue is 1 year old and no one from Apple gives a reply ?

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On my iPhone 6, 8.4.1, I cannot read my reading list items offline if I have wifi or cellular data turned on. As soon as I turn them off the reading list items pop right up. With wifi and cellular data on Safari tries to load the pages from the internet and if I have a bad internet connection it will not load the reading list items even though they are stored in memorey. I hope this helps.

I know this is an old thread and I expect you've sussed this out for yourself now ... but I landed here because I had the same problem although now my iPad is running IOS 9.3.1

Googling around I got a hint that it might be to do with the amount of storage Safari sets aside to store offline content.

So ...

• I deleted a whole load of older Reading List items and ...
• lo-and-behold, the text in the newest item gave me a progress report that it was "loading offline content".
• Then I switched off WiFi and tested that the offline content was indeed there to be read offline.
• Yes, it was!

I couldn't see any way of telling Safari how much storage to set aside for a Reading List.

I noticed in Settings >> General >> "Storage and iCloud Usage" that Safari is taking up 12.MB even though I have only two small pages of mainly text in my reading list now. So it looks like this figure includes regular web cache files as well as Reading List items.

I Had the same problem and noticed that when I swipe left on the page in the reading list (iOS), the pages that gave this "not available for offline reading" error were marked as read.

i went back online, marked them as unread, waited 5 mins, went offline, and they were all available.

Thank you! I seemed to have the same problem and this fixed it! 🙂

2017 and still have the same problem here. ***.