I have hidden unwanted books from the purchased area of the iBooks store, but they're are still appearing on the front page of iOS as cloud downloads, is there a way to remove these from iBooks without using the hide iCloud books button?

My apologies for the lack of photos, here is my post again with photos.

I have hidden unwanted books from the purchased area of the iBooks store, but they're are still appearing on the front page of iOS as cloud downloads, is there a way to remove these from iBooks without using the hide iCloud books button?

Let me explain a little more. I had downloaded a lot of free books in the past as a trial when iBooks was first released and since then I have decided I no longer want them, because of this I hid them from the purchased section of the iBooks store. The 5 books left are ones I decided to keep as seen in the following picture.

This is how it appears in iBooks on my mac. There are 4 books downloaded and 1 book that I have decided not to download at this time. I would still like to keep this book available in the cloud incase I want to download it again in the future. You’ll notice that hide iCloud books is not selected, if I wanted to hide the book that I have chosen to keep in the cloud, but have not downloaded yet I could.

This is exactly how I think this feature should work. If you have hidden a book from your purchases it should not show up in the mac Ibooks app. (I am aware you can never actually delete a purchase, just hide them and that hidden purchases can be restored to your account from within the account management section of the iBooks store).

The iOS app is working differently for me. Here is a picture of the purchased tab on the iBooks store in iOS Ibooks. Again notice that pictures of Lilly is still yet to be downloaded. This is how I expected it to look.

If we visit the front page of iOS iBooks the view is very different from what I expected. Here we can see the 4 books I wanted to keep on my device and have downloaded. We can also see the 1 book I wanted to keep, but did not want to store locally on the device and left in iCloud (Pictures of Lilly). However we can also see all the books I had hidden from the purchased section of my iTunes account and which I believe should no-longer be visible, Dracula, frankenstein etc…

I am aware of the hide iCloud books button within the iOS app, but I did not need to use this to hide the books I had removed from the my purchased section of the iBooks store on the mac, why are they still appearing in iOS?

I’m still not sure if this is a software glitch or not. This article suggests to me that books can be hidden, but I had already completed these steps.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201322

A browse of google also suggests people may have been able to hide past purchases from the front page of iBooks on iOS in the past.

In case there was an issue with syncing I tried logging in and out of my iTunes account via settings in iOS. Force closing the app, disabling automatic downloads and removing my device from iTunes in the cloud. Syncing with iTunes on the mac did not correct the issue either.

Interestingly I have the same issue on my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3 as I do on my iPad mini suggesting that this might be an issue either with my account or with iOS iBooks software in general.

If there is a way to remove the already hidden iBooks in your account from the front page of iBooks on iOS without using the hide iCloud downloads button? Please help community!

iPhone 6, iOS 8.3, Also an issue on my iPad mini iOS 8

Thanks, if there is no way to correct this I will submit feedback

Thanks kturedi, it was driving me crazy too! You're an absolute legend!

I went to the 'featured' tab with a star. Scrolled to the bottom, logged out and back in, worked perfectly, both on iPad and iPhone.

I've been having a protracted email discussion with apple support, who didn't seem to be able to understand the issue, they're solutions kept ending with telling me to hide the books using the toggle. They've been telling me this is a feature, I knew that was rubbish.

Thanks!

Thanks again kturedi I shall keep that in mind when I come across any problems.

Can you use your iBooks brain to see if you can solve this other problem I'm having?

PDF Bookmarks annotations not syncing with iBooks, ? related to iBooks creating a new copy of the PDF whenever changes are made in iBooks